The first version of Spring Boot was released in 2014. The following are some of the important updates expected in Spring Boot 2.0:
- The baseline JDK version is Java 8
- The baseline Spring Version is Spring Framework 5.0
- Spring Boot 2.0 has support for Reactive Web programming with WebFlux
Minimum supported versions of some important frameworks are listed as follows:
- Jetty 9.4
- Tomcat 8.5
- Hibernate 5.2
- Gradle 3.4
We will discuss Spring Boot extensively in Chapter 5, Building Microservices with Spring Boot and Chapter 7, Advanced Spring Boot Features.