Spring Boot was first released four years ago in 2014. In 2018, a newer version of Spring Boot was released. There are many new features and updates in Spring Boot 2.0. Here are some of the most important changes:
- There are many new packages and Starters that help with dependency management.
- Spring Boot 2.0 also supports auto-configuration. This helps in reducing the configuration that was needed in previous Spring apps.
- It has introduced better longing through features like Actuator.
- Software quality testing and utilities have been enhanced. This helps in a better user experience. With spring-boot-devtools, you can have much more enhanced feedback loops.
- Spring Boot 2.0 supports Java version 8 and greater ...