Dynamically applied annotations. All annotations such as @Bean and @Beanp can now be applied to classes and methods without direct access to source code.
Configurable properties can now set default values via system properties and environment variables.
REST method execution statistics.

New Pet Store Application in GitHub.
Full serializing/parsing support for Optional objects.
Cleaned up library dependencies:
- juneau-rest-client no longer depends on juneau-rest-server
- Annotations for common client/server REST interfaces are now in juneau-marshall and no longer depend on juneau.rest.client/juneau.rest.server.
Improved support for Spring Boot.
Improved support for serving up static files.

8.1.0 is a major release with the following new features.

8.0.0 is a major release with significant new functionality in the microservice APIs.

All deprecated APIs have been cleaned up.
The Microservice API has been revamped to use a builder-based approach to creating microservices.
The new API is considerably more flexible in design and allows for the configuration and external files to be located in either the home directory or inside the jar classpath.
New Spring Boot integration support classes.
REST resource classes can now easily be deployed as Spring Beans in a Spring Boot environment.
New template starter projects for creating either Jetty or Spring-Boot based microservices.
New instructions on how to quickly deploy Juneau-based applications to Heroku.

Fixed binary backwards compatibility issues with 7.1.0.
Method-level annotations (e.g. @RestMethod) and parameter-level annotations (e.g. @Query) are now inheritable from parent classes and interfaces.
This allows you to define Dual-Purpose Java Interfaces.