Spring 6.0 Core Features and Spring Boot 3.0 Breakthroughs: Virtual Threads, Declarative HTTP Clients, ProblemDetail, GraalVM Native Images, and Monitoring
This article explains the major enhancements in Spring 6.0 and Spring Boot 3.0—including a JDK 17 baseline, Project Loom virtual threads, @HttpExchange declarative HTTP clients, RFC 7807 ProblemDetail error handling, GraalVM native image support, AOT compilation, OAuth2 server setup, and Micrometer‑Prometheus monitoring—while providing a practical upgrade roadmap and code samples.
