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How do you enable Virtual Threads in Spring Boot 3.2+?

Set `spring.threads.virtual.enabled=true` in application.properties — Spring Boot auto-configures Tomcat and the @Async task executor to run on virtual threads, with no code changes needed for typical blocking Spring MVC code.

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