On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Boot 2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 300 issues and pull requests!

This first milestone builds on and requires Spring Framework 5.0.RC1. There are a number of nice refinements in Spring Framework 5 including extensive support for building reactive applications.

Highlights of this first milestone include:

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 2.0 Release Notes on the WIKI and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started and discover those new feature, you can easily bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io

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