Spring Boot 4.0 launches with Java 17‑21 support, Jakarta EE 11, Servlet 6.1, virtual‑thread concurrency, modularization for GraalVM, new declarative HTTP client, fluent JDBC/JMS APIs, built‑in resilience annotations, and migration guidance for existing Spring Boot projects.
Spring Boot 4, built on Spring Framework 7, introduces elegant API versioning, streamlined Bean registration, null‑safety annotations, simplified HTTP proxy creation, upgraded SPEL, GraalVM native support, Jackson 3.x, newer Servlet/WebSocket versions, and numerous other enhancements, offering developers more powerful and convenient tools.
This article explains how Spring Framework 7, bundled in Spring Boot 4.0 snapshot, introduces native API version control via a new `version` attribute on `@RequestMapping`, demonstrates basic and advanced configuration examples, showcases common versioning strategies, and provides testing commands to help developers manage API evolution efficiently.
