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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.

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