Chapter 2. What's New in Spring Batch 4.0

The Spring Batch 4.0 release has three major themes:

  • Java 8 Requirement

  • Dependencies re-baseline

  • Builders for ItemReaders and ItemWriters

Java 8 Requirement

Spring Batch has historically followed Spring Framework's baselines for both java version as well as third party dependencies. With Spring Batch 4, the Spring Framework version is being upgraded to Spring Framework 5. As such, the java version requirement for Spring Batch is also increasing to Java 8.