On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 2.0 is now generally available as 2.0.0.RELEASE from <a href="http://repo.spring.io/release/">repo.spring.io and <a href="https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.springframework.boot%22">Maven Central!
This release is the culmination of 17 months work and over <a href="https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/compare/6643ec37130ad589b03d747aa6171fc5e8652e08...7d7cf6aa35b872596b6dd2078dc3682e41e25a2a">6800 commits by 215 different individuals. A massive thank you to everyone that has contributed, and to all the early adopters that have been providing vital feedback on the milestones.
This is the first major revision of Spring Boot since 1.0 was released almost 4 years ago. It’s also the first GA version of Spring Boot that provides support for <a href="https://spring.io/blog/2017/09/28/spring-framework-5-0-goes-ga">Spring Framework 5.0.

Placeholder issue for things we can do to improve Kotlin support @value Using @Value("${thing}") is a pain because you need to escape $ (e.g. @Value("\${thing}"). Perhaps a different key like @Valu...