Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E16 - May Release Train Shift & What's Coming in Spring Boot 4.1

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun break down the recently announced shift of the May release train from May 11-22 to June 1-5, and what that means for your upgrade planning across the Spring portfolio. They also dig...

This Year in Spring – December 30th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it? It's already the 30th of December! I celebrated Christmas with my family in Los Angeles, then we jumped on a flight headed for Southeast Asia to ring in the New Year with more friends and family. I'm sitting at a café in the sweltering city of Kuala Lumpur,...

This Week in Spring – December 23rd, 2025

Happy holidays, everyone! The year may be winding down, but the Spring ecosystem continues unabated. We’re now a few weeks past the generational Spring Boot 4.0 release in November, and there have been tons of releases and patches since then. There’s also equal excitement reflected in posts from...

A Bootiful Podcast: The legendary Sébastien Deleuze on all that's new and nice in Spring Framework 7

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 4.0 release day! Make sure to get the bits on the Spring Initializr you know - start.spring.io! This release is packed with new features, a lot of which comes from Spring Framework 7. To help break it down for us this week, we’re joined by none other than the...

This Week in Spring - November 18th, 2025

This Week in Spring - November 18th, 2025 Hi, Spring fans! I'm thrilled to be in New York City for an exciting week of joint presentations on Spring AI + Bedrock and Spring Boot with the legendary James Ward. First up: we'll present a workshop at the AI Native Dev Conf today, then speak at the...

Spring gRPC Next Steps for 1.0.0

This is a new blog post in the Road to GA series, this time updating everyone on the plans to integrate Spring gRPC with Spring Boot 4. The original plan was to move the autoconfiguration from Spring gRPC into Spring Boot in time for the 4.0 release. Unfortunately we haven't been able to find the...

This Week in Spring - October 28th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's a wonderful tuesday here in my home town of San Francisco as I write this from my condo's balcony, fresh off more than three weeks on the road. By the time we'll speak again in a week, Halloween will have come and gone...

Modularizing Spring Boot

Continuing our Road to GA series, this week we're exploring the modularization effort happening with Spring Boot 4. When Spring Boot 1.0 was released in 2014, it shipped with a single spring-boot-autoconfigure jar weighing in at 182 KiB. Of course, that initial version didn't support a great deal...

Introducing Jackson 3 support in Spring

This is a new blog post in the Road to GA series, this time sharing more details on the new Jackson 3 support, just a few days after Jackson 3.0.0 GA release, about to be introduced in Spring Boot 4 and related Spring portfolio projects. Jackson is by far the most used JSON library on the JVM, an...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary lead of the Spring Batch project, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Batch in the Spring Boot 4 generation...

This Week in Spring - September 9th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am home, ensconced in my studio here in somewhat sunny San Francisco, California, relaxing and trying to catch up on stuff I missed. As always, there's a ton! So let's dive right into it. Some of the amazing features that...