I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements over 1.1 and is a recommended upgrade for all users. For upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes. Here are some of the highlights of this release: Servlet 3.1 Spring Boot now uses Servlet 3.1 when running with an embedded servlet container. Tomcat 8, Jetty 9 and Undertow 1.1 are all supported options. In addition, WebSocket support has been improved and is now…

I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate for Spring Boot 1.2.0 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This is mainly a bug fix release, although we did manage to sneak in a fantastic community contribution which adds support for Undertow as an embedded Servlet container. For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation has also been updated to cover new features. As usual, please report any problems using the project Issue tracker.

Spring Boot 1.1.9 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and third-party dependency updates. This release also upgrades to the latest Spring Framework, which includes an important security patch; as such it is highly recommended that all Spring Boot users upgrade. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

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 1.1.8 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release includes a security patch to the "white label error" page which prevents potential cross-site scripting attacks; as such it is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0.M2 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release adds a number of improvements and new features over M1. Highlights include: Full configuration of Jackson ObjectMapper features from your application.properties file. Auto-configuration for Jersey. Support for Log4j2. Support for commons-dbcp2. A new "disk usage" health indicator. Improved RabbitMQ auto-configuration. For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation also continues to be…

Spring Boot 1.1.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0.M1 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release builds on Spring Framework 4.1 and provides a number of improvements and new features. Highlights include: Support for distributed JTA transactions across multiple XA resources using either an Atomkos or Bitronix embedded transaction manager or a full Java EE Application Server. Easier configuration of JNDI bound DataSource and ConnectionFactory beans. Improved JMS support, including auto-configuration for the Spring Framework 4.1 @EnableJms annotation. Auto-configuration…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.1.6 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release closes almost 50 reported issues and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

We are pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.1.5 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release addresses a number of issues and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation