Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC5 Released!!

This week Spring IO team has announced that they have released the final released candidate for the Spring Boot 1.0.0 road map. So, the next version will be the final release of the project. Spring Boot project is intended to use the auto configuration of your spring applications instead of developers manually configure the environmental requirements. With this release, there are few new features added to the 1.0.0 release. (Read : Introduction to Spring Boot)

Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC5 New Features

• A new @IntegrationTest annotation has been added to help when writing integration tests for Spring Boot.
• The CRaSH shell now exposes an endpoint command that can be used to obtain actuator information.

The reference material for this project is updated and have lot of information for the developers to get started on writing their Spring Book  applications.