Spring Boot 2.0 new features

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.