This document provides an overview and summary of new features in Spring 4.0, including:
- Comprehensive support for Java 8 features like lambdas and date/time API
- Support for Java EE 7 APIs such as Bean Validation 1.1 and JMS 2.0
- Enhancements to Spring Boot, Spring XD, and messaging architectures
- Almost ready release candidate 1 of Spring 4.0 focusing on Java 8 support, Java EE 7 APIs, and smaller features