A Bootiful Podcast: Netflix’s Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan on scaling Spring Boot and Spring GraphQL

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I'm thrilled to be joined by Netflix's Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan, who explain how they're integrating and evolving Spring for GraphQL in their own GraphQL stack and how they're managing, growing, and evolving thousands of services written in Spring B...

Spring Tips: Spring AI

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new Spring AI project, which provides convenient integrations with LLMs like the one behind ChatGPT and tools to support the RAG retrieval augmented generation pipeline. ai springboot artificialintelligence java graalvm cloud java21 postgresq...

This Week in Spring - January 30th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! It's January 30th, and it's a very special week for me as, tomorrow, I celebrate my birthday and the birthday of my biological father with whom I share the same birthday! Happy birthday, dad! Sadly, he passed in 2019. I'm pretty excited! I'm turning 40. Feels good. Almost as good...

Tackling the OAuth2 Client component model in Spring Security

In Spring Security 5, we saw many developments in the OAuth2 story with the introduction of OAuth2 Resource Server and OAuth2 Client into the framework. Today, it is quite convenient to develop applications that are secured by OAuth2 using the features available in OAuth2 Resource Server...

This Week in Spring - July 4th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in sweltering, but lovely, Singapore, where I'm meeting with customers and just finished presenting at the SpringOne Tour Singapore stop. If you're in Singapore, I hope you'll join me tonight for Bootiful Sprin...

A Bootiful Podcast: Elastic's Philipp Krenn

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Elastic's Philipp Krenn, live from Spring IO 2023 in beautiful Barcelona, Spain!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Micrometer lead Tommy Ludwig

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Micrometer lead Tommy Ludwig, recorded from beautiful Barcelona, Spain during the fabulous Spring I/O event!...

This Week in Spring - June 13th, 2023

This Month in Spring - June 13th, 2023 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in beautiful Taipei, eating delicious food and meeting amazing people in the sweltering weather. How're you doin'? I've got to join a meeting, so I'll make this quick. One quick thi...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot team member Moritz Halbritter (@m_halbritter)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware.com talks to Spring Boot team member Moritz Halbritter @mhalbritter...

A Bootiful Podcast: Grubhub's Josh Burns on Kotlin, Spring Boot, and more

We're crossing the streams, again! This time Josh Long talks to Grubhub's John Burns twitter: @wakingrufus mastodon: @[email protected] about dogfooding human food, Grubhub's tech stack, and more...

A Bootiful Podcast: James Ward, Kotlin Product Manager at Google

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to James Ward, Kotlin Product Manager at Google...

This Week in Spring - April 11th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in Amsterdam, Netherlands, preparing to speak at the Utrecht JUG tonight along with fellow Java Champion Trisha Gee. We're not speaking together, but instead it's a double header: she'll speak first, then...

A Bootiful Podcast: Google Cloud Java Advocate Aaron Wanjala

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Google Cloud Java advocate Aaron Wanjala @ AaronMDubya about Spring Framework for Google Cloud...

This Week in Spring - March 7th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's an amazing week, and this week we've got a lot to look at. Let's dive right into it. Spring Cloud Function for Azure Function Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9 released Spring R2DBC for Reactive Relational Databases in...

This Week in Spring - February 28th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this installment from a hotel room in Dallas, Texas, in the USA. Last night I had the privilege of hanging out with some of my friends from the local Java scene. Today I meet with customers. It's going to be a nic...

This Week in Spring - January 17th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I went to Helsinki, Finland, last week, and this week I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, to speak at the Atlanta Java User Group. And, of course, next week, I'll be in New York to join a viewing party for the airing of SpringOne...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion Gunnar Morling about messaging middleware, Debezium, change data capture, and more.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Java Champion Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling about messaging middleware, Debezium, and more...

This Week in Spring - November 8th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Ive been busy this last week! Ive been visiting with customers and talking to the community here in South East Asia. I was in Malaysia last week, and now Im in Bangkok, Thailand. Im near the end of my time here in SE Asia,...

A Bootiful Podcast: Google mad scientist Josh Suereth on Observability with OpenTelemetry, building better build tools, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman looks at the latest and greatest in Spring Boot 3 AOT, then talks to Googles Josh Suereth @jsuereth about observability with OpenTelemetry, building better build tools, and so much more. Want to learn more about Spring Boot and the wider...

Spring Tips: Spring Boot & Apache Kafka

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at the venerable Apache Kafka broker and its integrations at various level of abstraction in the Spring Boot ecosystem. Want to learn more about event driven architectures, AOT and GraalVM, Apache Kafka, and Spring Boot? SpringOne 2022 i...

A Bootiful Podcast: thought leader Chris Richardson (and no, I'm not using that title ironically!)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to his friend Chris Richardson @crichardson, who helped articulate and advance cloud computing, reactive programming, microservices, domain-driven design, event sourcing, and so much more years before the zeitgeist. Also, we used t...

Spring Session 2022.0.0-M3 Released

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2022.0.0-M3. These releases deliver, enhancements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up these artifacts with its upcoming releases. The following modules were updated as part...

A Bootiful Podcast: big data legend, former Pivot, and friend to the Spring community, Tim Spann

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to big data legend, former Pivot, and friend to the Spring community, Tim Spann @PaaSDev, about big data, StreamNative, and Apache Pulsar, and Spring for Apache Pulsar. Get your notebooks ready for this one, class!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Hashicorp's Rosemary Wang on securing the intersection of apps and ops with Hashicorp Vault

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Hashicorp Developer Advocate Rosemary Wang @joatmon08 about a few Hashicorp technologies and their integrations with Spring Boot...

Spring Authorization Server Is Going 1.0

We are excited to announce that weve started preparing for Spring Authorization Server 1.0 with plans to release the GA version in November 2022. It has been just over two years since we initially announced this new project, and we have come a long way since its initial development. The project h...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud and Spring Cloud Kubernetes contributor Ryan Baxter

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to a person who knows more than most about the awesome implications of both the words "Spring" and "Cloud," Spring Cloud Kubernetes lead Ryan Baxter @ryanjbaxter...

A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes contributor and fellow Tanzu Developer Advocate Leigh Capili

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow teammate and Kubernetes ecosystem legend Leigh Capili @capileigh about Gitops, Kubernetes, Puppet/Chef, continuous delivery, how zoom scales if you deploy on-prem, being a developer advocate, Flux, and so much more...

A Bootiful Podcast: JVM and .NET legend Ted Neward on... just about everything

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I @starbuxman talk to my old friend, world-famous polyglot and code curmudgeon, software philosopher, industry veteran, and legend of ecosystems aplenty, Ted Neward @tedneward...

Spring Cloud Azure 4.0 is Now Generally Available

NOTE: Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post from Sean Li, our friend at Microsoft I am pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 4.0 is now generally available. With this major release we aim to bring better security, leaner dependencies, support for production readiness and more. Version 4...

Insufficiently random session id in Java SockJS client

Session id generation in the Java SockJS client is not sufficiently secure and could allow a user to send messages to another user’s session. Note that this only affects users of the Java SockJS client, which generates its own session id. It does not affect browser clients even if they’re...

A Bootiful Podcast: My friend Francesco Ciulla on developer advocacy and more

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to my friend Francesco Ciulla about the art of developer advocacy and more. Francesco Ciulla is the Head of DevRel Engineering at zerops.io...

A Bootiful Podcast: DaShaun Carter on patching, Spring Boot 4.1, and security in the world of AI

Hi Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege to sit down with my friend DaShaun Carter to talk about patching, Spring Boot 4.1, and security in the world of AI...

cve-2026-40996 - MEDIUM - Inbound WS-Security allows RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 key transport by default

cve-2026-40996 - MEDIUM - Inbound WS-Security allows RSA PKCS1 v1.5 key transport by default...

cve-2026-40995 - MEDIUM - X.509 authentication bypasses Spring Security account checks

cve-2026-40995 - MEDIUM - X.509 authentication bypasses Spring Security account checks...

cve-2026-40994 - HIGH - Wss4jSecurityInterceptor disables WS-I BSP validation by default

cve-2026-40994 - HIGH - Wss4jSecurityInterceptor disables WS-I BSP validation by default...

cve-2026-41001 - MEDIUM - Predictable Temp Directory in Artemis Auto-configuration

cve-2026-41001 - MEDIUM - Predictable Temp Directory in Artemis Auto-configuration...

cve-2026-41716 - HIGH - Spring Data web support unbounded negative-result cache keyed on attacker-supplied property names

cve-2026-41716 - HIGH - Spring Data web support unbounded negative-result cache keyed on attacker-supplied property names...

cve-2026-41717 - HIGH - Spring Data MongoDB - SpEL Expression Injection via Annotated Query Parameter Binding

cve-2026-41717 - HIGH - Spring Data MongoDB - SpEL Expression Injection via Annotated Query Parameter Binding...

cve-2026-41697 - MEDIUM - Spring Data Relational Parameter not Escaped for Query By Example LIKE Pattern

cve-2026-41697 - MEDIUM - Spring Data Relational Parameter not Escaped for Query By Example LIKE Pattern...

cve-2026-41696 - MEDIUM - Spring Data MongoDB Bind Parameter Literal Quoting Breakout

cve-2026-41696 - MEDIUM - Spring Data MongoDB Bind Parameter Literal Quoting Breakout...

cve-2026-41701 - MEDIUM - In Spring AMQP sequential correlation IDs enable reply poisoning on fixed reply queues

cve-2026-41701 - MEDIUM - In Spring AMQP sequential correlation IDs enable reply poisoning on fixed reply queues...

A Bootiful Podcast: the legendary Adib Saikali

Hi, Spring fans! I'm so thrilled to have been able to sit down and talk to my friend Adib Saikali!...

Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E14 - Spec Driven Development with Simon Martinelli

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Java Champion, Vaadin Champion, and Oracle ACE Pro Simon Martinelli to talk about Spec-Driven Development. With AI reshaping how we write code, Simon makes the case th...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Messaging Legend Soby Chacko

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk with the legendary Soby Chacko about Apache Kafka, Spring AI, and much more! apachekafka kafka...

Explainable AI Agents: Capture LLM Tool Call Reasoning with Spring AI

When building AI agents with tool calling capabilities, developers often need insights into why an LLM chose a particular tool—not just which tool it selected. Understanding the model's reasoning process is important for debugging, observability, and building trustworthy AI systems. Spring AI now...

A Bootiful Podcast: The legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment I talk to the legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more!...

Null-safe applications with Spring Boot 4

This is a new blog post in the Road to GA series, this time sharing an update on the status of the null-safety support across the Spring portfolio, as a follow-up of my previous related blog post Null Safety in Spring applications with JSpecify and NullAway and related Spring I/O talk. Are we...

A Bootiful Podcast: The legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more, recorded live at Devoxx UK 2025...

Spring Security authorization bypass for method security annotations on private methods

Spring Security Aspects may not correctly locate method security annotations on private methods. This can cause an authorization bypass. Your application may be affected by this if the following are true: In that case, the target method may be able to be invoked without proper authorization. You...

Null Safety in Spring applications with JSpecify and NullAway

The initial introduction of the null safety support in Spring dates back to 2017 and the release of Spring Framework 5.0. In 2025, we are evolving that story to bring more added value for Spring developers, either in Java or Kotlin. But before having a deeper look to the changes we are working on...