What’s New In Spring Boot 3.0?

One of the great news for Java developers is that, Spring Boot 3.0 is officially released in November, 2022. It has some new features and improvements. Spring Boot 3.0 is also the first major release of Spring Boot after a long duration. The previous version Spring Boot 2.0 was released around 4.5 years ago. Additionally, Spring Boot 3.0 becomes the first Spring Boot GA release which will support Spring Framework 6.0. For the developers who are working on Spring Boot projects or going to work in future as well, it becomes mandatory to know about these updates in order to have better hold on Spring Boot.

Below are the list of highlights in the release of Spring Boot 3.0.

• JDK 17 becomes minimum JDK to work with Spring Boot 3.0
• Inclusion of Jakarta EE in place of Java EE libraries
• Support for generating native images using GraalVM
• Improved observability with Micrometer and Micrometer Tracing

What’s Important To Know for Spring Boot Developers?

1. Spring Boot 3.0 builds on top of Spring Framework 6. Therefore, if you are working on Spring Boot version 3.0, it will automatically download the required dependencies of Spring framework 6. In other words, by default, you will be using Spring Framework 6 while working…