On behalf of the team, it is my great pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.0.RC2 has been released and is now available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 180 issues and pull requests. It is our second, and hopefully final, release candidate. All being well, 2.0.0 will be released next week. Thank you to everyone who tried RC1 and provided us with valuable feedback.

We've refined a number of items from RC1, including significant improvements to our Micrometer integration and numerous dependency upgrades. For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.0.0.RC2 Release Notes on the wiki.

To get started with Spring Boot 2.0.0 RC2, you can easily bootstrap a new project on start.spring.io. If you are upgrading from Spring Boot 1.5 (or earlier) please refer to the migration guide.

Thanks to everyone that has contributed to Spring Boot 2.0 so far!

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