Expression injection in MilvusVectorStore doDelete allows data destruction

Spring AI's MilvusVectorStoredoDeleteList implementation is vulnerable to filter-expression injection via unsanitized document IDs...

Elasticsearch auto-configuration with an SSL bundle disables TLS hostname verification

When configured to use an SSL bundle, Spring Boot's Elasticsearch auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when connecting to the Elasticsearch server...

A Bootiful Podcast: the legendary Craig Walls

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary Craig Walls, author of Spring In Action , Spring AI in Action , and more!...

LLM Response Evaluation with Spring AI: Building LLM-as-a-Judge Using Recursive Advisors

The challenge of evaluating Large Language Model LLM outputs is critical for notoriously non-deterministic AI applications, especially as they move into production. Traditional metrics like ROUGE and BLEU fall short when assessing the nuanced, contextual responses that modern LLMs produce. Human...

A Bootiful Podcast: Elastic's developer advocate extraordinairre Philip Krenn on the state of logging

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to my friend and Elastic's developer advocate extraordinairre Philip Krenn on the state of logging...

Connect Your AI to Everything: Spring AI's MCP Boot Starters

The Model Context Protocol MCP standardizes how AI applications interact with external tools and resources. Spring joined the MCP ecosystem early as a key contributor, helping to develop and maintain the official MCP Java SDK that serves as the foundation for Java-based MCP implementations...

Spring Authorization Server moving to Spring Security 7.0

Spring Authorization Server has come a long way since 1.0 was officially released in November 2022. Starting as a project separate from Spring Security, has allowed it to iterate quickly on feature development and ultimately grow a rich feature set for building OAuth2 Authorization Servers. It ha...

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...

This Week in Spring - February 4th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's February 4th, 2025, as I write this. We are ten days away from Valentine's day, and about a month away from Devnexus. Lots to look forward to, in both the short term and the long term! Let's dive right into this week's...

What's new in Spring Modulith 1.3?

After half a year of development, Spring Modulith 1.3 GA has been released. It is packed with new features, improvements, and – best of all – community contributions. Let me walk you through some of the most interesting ones. Baseline Upgrades As usual, a new minor version of Spring Modulith...

This Week in Spring - July 9th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it's been! We've got a lot to get into, so let's dive right in. I quite liked this talk, Continuations: The magic behind virtual threads in Java by Balkrishna Rawool @ Spring I/O 2024 In last week's episode of...

This Week in Spring - July 2nd, 2024

Hi, spring fans! Welcome to another amazing installment of This Week in Spring! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, recorded a few weeks ago at Spring IO, I talked with Spring Security legend Laur Spilca In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at a number of ways you cou...

A Bootiful Podcast: Stuart Marks (aka ”Dr. Deprecator”) on Java, its amazing features, and more

Hi, Spring fans! Happy one-day-belated Java 22 release day to those who celebrate! To ring in the new release, we've got an extra special and incredible discussion with a Java legend - somebody who's been involved in the Java community and work for decades - Stuart Marks, or "Dr. Deprecator," as...

This Week in Spring - December 12th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to a new installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of stuff to get into, so let's dive right in! Laur Spilca and I look at how to ugprade a Spring Security 5.x application to Spring Security 6.x. Apache SkyWalking with Sheng Wu and Apache ShardingSphere with...

This Week in Spring - November 14th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 14th, and you know what that means? NINE MORE DAYS until Spring Boot 3.2 drops on the day of the US holiday of Thanksgiving, no less! Some key features include: virtual threads initial CRaC support more...

This Week in Spring - October 17th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! It's October 17th, 2023, and I am here in Montreal, Canada, and then I'm off to Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday for the Java User Group there. Don't miss it! We've got a lot to cover this week so let's dive right into it...

Spring Tips: Making the joyful jump to Java 21

Hi, Spring fans! Java 21 and GraalVM supporting Java 21 are at long last here! It's been a long time in coming, but Java 21 - which comes out later today on the 19th of September, 2023 - brings with it some of the most exciting new features of any Java release. In this video, I will look at some ...

This Week in Spring - August 8th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm baaaaack in the USA for the first time in more than two months, and it feels great to be home! I just concluded a tour of Asia, visiting Taipei, Taiwan Sydney, and the Blue Mountains, in Australia Seoul, S. Korea Singapor...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java legend Simon Martinelli on Vaadin, JavaOOQ, and so more

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Java legend Simon Martinelli about Vaadin, Spring, JavaOOQ, and more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful Barcelona, Spain at the amazing Spring I/O show!...

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...

Building intelligent Spring Apps with Azure OpenAI

Note from Josh: Hi, Spring fans! I wanted to cross post this article looking at using Spring and Azure OpenAI from Microsoft's Sean Li because it's interesting: enjoy! Integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into apps has become a new trend in today's technological landscape. Spring is t...

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...

Updates on Spring Cloud Stream 4.0.0 Schema Registry Support

This blog gives an update on the Schema Registry support that is part of Spring Cloud Stream version 4.0.x. Many enterprises use a schema registry for schema evolution use cases, such as the Confluent Schema Registry. Starting with version 1.1.x of Spring Cloud Stream until 3.0.0, we provided a...

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...

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!...

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: Java Champion and Spring Katas legend Chandra Guntur

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow Java Champion and Java ecosystem luminary Chandra Guntur @cguntur about Java, Spring, and the Spring Katas, among other things...

Spring Security / MVC Path Matching Inconsistency

Both Spring Security and the Spring Framework rely on URL pattern mappings for authorization and for mapping requests to controllers respectively. Differences in the strictness of the pattern matching mechanisms, for example with regards to space trimming in path segments, can lead Spring Securit...

CVE-2014-0225

CVE-2014-0225...

cve-2026-59284 - HIGH - Spring Cloud Commons no allow list for writable env actuator endpoint

cve-2026-59284 - HIGH - Spring Cloud Commons no allow list for writable env actuator endpoint...

A Bootiful Podcast: Data guru Gregory Green on RabbitMQ, Valkey, Gemfire, Data Flow, and more

Hi, Spring and data fans! Want a faster, smarter data stack? Tune into this episode with Gregory Green for a deep dive into GemFire, RabbitMQ Streams, Dataflow, and more. We cover real-time event processing, active-active consistency, full-text search, vector search, and how to build resilient,...

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-2026-47825 - HIGH - Spring Cloud Gateway Server Forwards Headers from Untrusted Proxies in certain situations

cve-2026-47825 - HIGH - Spring Cloud Gateway Server Forwards Headers from Untrusted Proxies in certain situations...

cve-2026-40985 - MEDIUM - Data Binding Vulnerability in Spring Web Flow with Unified EL Parser

cve-2026-40985 - MEDIUM - Data Binding Vulnerability in Spring Web Flow with Unified EL Parser...

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-2026-40987 - HIGH - Remote-file synchronizer in Spring Integration writes server-supplied filename under localDirectory without canonicalization

cve-2026-40987 - HIGH - Remote-file synchronizer in Spring Integration writes server-supplied filename under localDirectory without canonicalization...

cve-2026-41729 - HIGH - Spring Data REST SpEL Injection via Map Key in JSON Patch

cve-2026-41729 - HIGH - Spring Data REST SpEL Injection via Map Key in JSON Patch...

cve-2026-41006 - HIGH - Spring HATEOAS Collection+JSON/UBER deserializers do not honor Jackson configuration

cve-2026-41006 - HIGH - Spring HATEOAS Collection+JSON/UBER deserializers do not honor Jackson configuration...

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 Cloud Config Server Logged Sensitive Information

When enabling trace logging in Spring Cloud Config Server sensitive information was placed in plain text in the logs...

A Bootiful Podcast: Nate Schutta the fundamentals of software engineering

Hi Spring fans, and happy holidays! I'm delighted to be joined again on this episode by my friend and fellow harbinger of doom in the best possible way, Nate Schutta — co-author of the wonderful book Foundations of Software Engineering!...

Create Self-Improving AI Agents Using Spring AI Recursive Advisors

The Spring AI ChatClient offers a fluent API for communicating with an AI model. The fluent API provides methods for building the constituent parts of a prompt that gets passed to the AI model as input. Advisors are a key part of the fluent API that intercept, modify, and enhance AI-driven...

New Home for Spring Integration AWS

The Spring Integration for AWS was always an independent Spring Integration extension project with its own plans and release cycles. The consumption of this single jar library has always added a complexity from the dependency management perspective. It depends not only on Spring Integration modul...

Access API Moves to Spring Security Access

Five years ago, Spring Security began the journey of modernizing its authorization API. This has paved the way for a number of exciting features like Authorized POJOs, value masking, and, planned for Spring Security 7, Multi-Factor Authentication. This also deprecated the majority of the Access...

This Week in Spring - August 26th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the floor of SpringOne, live from lovely Las Vegas! As you can imagine, I've got to get back into it, so we'll make this one a quick one. And if you're here, be sure to say "hi"! In last week's A Bootifu...

This Week in Spring - July 29th, 2025

It's the end of July! JULY! The seventh month of the year, done and dusted! AHHHHH! I've got memories of being on a tropical beach over the winter holidays, sipping rum and dodging mosquitoes like I was doing a rhythmic gymnastics routine just recently. It turns out that was seven months ago, not...

Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder maximum password length breaks timing attack mitigation

The fix applied in CVE-2025-22228 inadvertently broke the timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvider...

Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Part 2 - Important Changes and Updates

Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Part 2 - Important Changes and Updates This blog post is a continuation of our previous article Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Important Changes and Updates, where we introduced the significant changes to artifact IDs, dependency management, and autoconfiguration ...

AI Meets Spring Petclinic: Implementing an AI Assistant with Spring AI (Part I)

Introduction In this two-parts blog post, I will discuss the modifications I made to Spring Petclinic to incorporate an AI assistant that allows users to interact with the application using natural language. Introduction to Spring Petclinic Spring Petclinic serves as the primary reference...