Spring Boot 4.1.0-M1 available now
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.1.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 111 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:
- Improve support for observation and metric conventions
- Configuration properties for configuring Jackon's read and write features
- New
@AutoConfigureWebServerannotation for sliced tests that require a web server - Reinstated support for Spock as it now supports Groovy 5
- Support for jOOQ 3.20 (requires Java 21 or later) …