Spring Boot 1.2.0.RC1 Available Now
I am pleased to announce that the first release candidate for Spring Boot 1.2.0 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release adds a number of improvements and new features over M2. Highlights include:
- Tomcat 8 or Jetty 9 as the default embedded servlet container (providing Servlet 3.1 support).
- A new
@SpringBootApplication
annotation. - Access to start.spring.io using the
spring init
CLI command. - Email support including a new
spring-boot-starter-mail
"starter POM". - Additional health and metrics endpoints.
For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation…