Spring Boot 2.0.0 M1 Release Notes
Classes, methods and properties that were deprecated in Spring Boot 1.5 have been removed in this release. Please ensure that you aren’t calling deprecated methods before upgrading.
In order to support reactive use cases, the embedded containers package structure has been refactored quite extensively. EmbeddedServletContainer has been renamed to WebServer and the org.springframework.boot.context.embedded package has been relocated to org.springframework.boot.web.embedded. For instance, if you were customizing the embedded Tomcat container using the TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory callback interface, you should now use TomcatServletWebServerFactory.
A number of server.* properties that are Servlet-specific have moved to server.servlet:
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Actuator endpoints are now mapped under /application by default. For instance, the /info endpoint is now available at /application/info. It is possible to override this default using the management.context-path attribute.
@ConditionalOnBean now uses a logical AND rather than a logical OR when determining whether or not the condition has been met.
Following its deprecation in 1.5, support for the CRaSH project and remote actuator SSH support that it provided has been removed.
As the Spring Loaded project has been moved to the attic, its support has been removed. We advise to use Devtools instead.
It is no longer possible to auto-configure both a general HazelcastInstance and a dedicated HazelcastInstance for caching. As a result, the spring.cache.hazelcast.config property is no longer available.
The default connection pool has switched from Tomcat to HikariCP. If you used spring.datasource.type to force the use of Hikari in a Tomcat-based application, you can now remove that override.
The default dispatcher types for a Filter are now DipatcherType.REQUEST this aligns Spring Boot’s default with the Servlet specification’s default.
Spring Security’s filter is now auto-configured with ASYNC, ERROR, and REQUEST dispatcher types. This aligns Spring Boot’s default configuration with Spring Security’s default configuration.
Spring Session’s filter is now auto-configured with ASYNC, ERROR, and REQUEST dispatcher types. This aligns Spring Boot’s default configuration with Spring Session’s default configuration. Note that as of Spring Session 2.0, Mongo and GemFire support has been removed.
The minimum supported version of SendGrid’s Java client is now 3.2. In support of this upgrade, the username and
password properties have been removed as an API key is now the only supported means of authentication.
Previously several Spring Boot starters were transitively depending on Spring MVC with spring-boot-starter-web.
With the new support of Spring WebFlux, spring-boot-starter-mustache and spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf aren’t depending on it anymore. It is the developer’s responsibility to choose and add spring-boot-starter-web or spring-boot-starter-webflux as dependencies.
The detail of the health check for Solr no longer defines a solrStatus attribute. Rather a status property is now defined and corresponds to the integer value of the standard status property.
Spring Boot now uses CGLIB proxying by default, including for the AOP support. If you need proxy-based proxy, you’ll need to set the spring.aop.proxy-target-class to false.
Testing support has been removed from Spring Boot’s CLI in favour of moving to building the application with Maven or Gradle and using their rich testing support.
To better reflect their Servlet-specific nature, the multipart spring.http.multipart. configuration properties have been renamed to spring.servlet.multipart..
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Spring Boot 2.0 builds on and requires Spring Framework 5.0. There are a number of nice refinements in Spring Framework 5.0 including extensive support for building reactive applications. Please refer to the Spring Framework Wiki for details.
Relaxed binding has been improved. Please see this separate page for details.
Spring Boot 2.0 provides a new starter for supporting the Reactive Spring web frameworks, for both annotation and functional based variants. spring-boot-starter-webflux brings WebFlux itself, plus Reactor Netty as a default web engine (spring-boot-starter-reactor-netty).
Spring Boot 2.0 provides auto-configuration for the following data store with reactive support:
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MongoDB (
spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb-reactive) -
Redis (
spring-boot-starter-data-redis-reactive) -
Cassandra (
spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive)
@DataMongoTest also enables reactive repositories if necessary.
Reactive controllers can be tested using @WebFluxTest that provides a similar support than @WebMvcTest for Spring MVC. In particular a WebTestClient is auto-configured.
When using @SpringBootTest with an actual server (that is, either DEFINED_PORT or RANDOM_PORT), a WebTestClient is available the same way TestRestTemplate is.
Spring Boot’s Gradle plugin has been largely rewritten to enable a number of significant improvements. You can read more about the plugin’s capabilities in its reference and api documentation.
The bootRepackage task has been replaced with bootJar and bootWar tasks for building executable jars and wars respectively. Both tasks extend their equivalent standard Gradle jar or war task, giving you access to all of the usual configuration options and behaviour.
Spring Boot’s Gradle plugin no longer automatically applies the dependency management plugin. Instead, Spring Boot’s plugin now reacts to the dependency management plugin being applied by importing the correct version of the spring-boot-dependencies bom. This gives you more control over how and when dependency management is configured. For most applications applying the dependency management plugin will be sufficient:
apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'Please note that the dependency management plugin remains a transitive dependency of spring-boot-gradle-plugin so there’s no need for it to be listed as a classpath dependency in your buildscript configuration.
The current milestone has a few known problems. If you’ve encountered one of those, please subscribe to those GitHub issues:
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#9146 Devtools restart doesn’t work with WebFlux + reactor-netty