Appendix Spring Boot 1.4.x

Spring Boot 1.4.X Release Notes

Upgrading from Spring Boot 1.3

Executable Jar Layout

The layout (the directory structure) of executable jars has changed. If you are using Spring Boot’s Maven, Gradle, or Ant support to build your application this change will not affect you. If you are building an executable archive yourself, please be aware that an application’s dependencies are now packaged in BOOT-INF/lib rather than lib , and an application’s own classes are now packaged in BOOT-INF/classes rather than the root of the jar.

Deprecations from Spring Boot 1.3

Classes, methods and properties that were deprecated in Spring Boot 1.3 have been removed in this release. Please ensure that you aren’t calling deprecated methods ...

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