Spring Boot 3.0 RC1 Released with Native Image Support and Jakarta EE 9 Migration
Spring Boot 3.0 RC1 introduces 135 enhancements, native executable support via Maven/Gradle plugins, migration to Jakarta EE 9, Java 17 baseline, and new features such as flexible Spring Data JDBC auto‑configuration, Prometheus example auto‑configuration, and Log4j2 improvements, with full details in the release notes.
