This section provides a brief overview of Spring Boot reference documentation. It serves as a map for the rest of the document.

1. About the Documentation

The Spring Boot reference guide is available as:

The latest copy is available at docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/.

Copies of this document may be made for your own use and for distribution to others, provided that you do not charge any fee for such copies and further provided that each copy contains this Copyright Notice, whether distributed in print or electronically.

2. Getting Help

If you have trouble with Spring Boot, we would like to help.

All of Spring Boot is open source, including the documentation. If you find problems with the docs or if you want to improve them, please get involved.

3. Upgrading from an Earlier Version

Instructions for how to upgrade from earlier versions of Spring Boot are provided on the project wiki. Follow the links in the in the release notes section to find the version that you want to upgrade to.

Upgrading instructions are always the first item in the release notes. If you are more than one release behind, please make sure that you also review the release notes of the versions that you jumped.

You should always ensure that you are running a supported version of Spring Boot.

4. First Steps

If you are getting started with Spring Boot or 'Spring' in general, start with the following topics:

5. Working with Spring Boot

Ready to actually start using Spring Boot? We have you covered:

6. Learning about Spring Boot Features

Need more details about Spring Boot’s core features? The following content is for you:

7. Moving to Production

When you are ready to push your Spring Boot application to production, we have some tricks that you might like:

8. Advanced Topics

Finally, we have a few topics for more advanced users: