This Week in Spring - October 1st, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! it's the first of October! We're officially in the fourth quarter of 2024! Time's moving too quickly. Way too quickly. But as always, there's awesome stuff afoot, so let's dive right in! Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller looks at the road ahead, to Spring Framework 6.2 and...

A Bootiful Podcast: Flowable cofounder and my friend Joram Barrez on workflow, case management, AI, Spring, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I catch up with my friend Joram Barrez, cofounder of Flowable, an amazing and opensource workflow engine, on their latest and greatest, AI, Spring, and so much more. workflow bpmn apache2 springboot java...

This Week in Spring - September 3rd, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's September 3rd, and I'm still buzzing from the last week's SpringOne extravaganza! Also: I'm tired. Last week was nuts. I'm super glad it happened, but I'm tired. And also buzzing. You know? Surely you don't. I hope not...

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...

Spring Boot Testjars founder Rob Winch

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment we talk Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security and founder of the exciting new project Spring Boot Testjars...

A Bootiful Podcast: Cristian Schuszter on CERN

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Cristian Schuszter, a software engineer at CERN. This episode was recorded live at VOXXED DAYS CERN!. Don't forget to help us out with the State of Spring Survey...

A Bootiful Podcast: Oracle Java Developer Advocate Nicolai Parlog on the latest and greatest in Java

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Oracle Java Developer Advocate Nicolai Parlog on the latest and greatest in Java...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring trainer extraordinairre Patrick Baumgartner

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talked to Spring trainer extraordinaire, long-time community contributor, and Voxxed Days co-organizer for various shows in Switzerland. This talk was recorded live at Voxxed Days CERN!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili helps us ring in the new year

Hi, Spring fans! And Happy new year! In this episode I talk to Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili, who helps us ring in the new year!...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Azul Deputy CTO Simon Ritter

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment I talk to Azul Deputy CTO Simon Ritter @speakjava, recorded live at Devoxx Belgium 2023!...

A Bootiful Podcast: VMware vice president Betty Junod

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to VMware vice president Betty Junod about VMware, its amazing ecosystem, and so much more...

A Bootiful Podcast: Angular Google Developer Expert Santosh Yadav

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @coffesoftware talks to Angular Google Developer Expert Santosh Yadav @santoshyadavdev about the latest and greatest in the JavaScript and Angular ecosystem...

A Bootiful Podcast: Sonatype's Steve Poole and Gradle's Justin Reock on Improving Developer Productivity without compromising on things like security

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, recorded at Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, I talk to newcomer to the show Steve Poole, from Sonatype, and Justin Reock, from Gradle, about improving developer productivity without comprising on things like...

A Bootiful Podcast: GraalVM advocate Alina Yurenko on a Bootiful Podcast

Liiiive from New York, it's a Bootiful Podcast! This week I @starbuxman talk to Developer Advocate for GraalVM at Oracle Labs, and legend, Alina Yurenko @alinayurenko...

A Bootiful Podcast: GraalVM advocate Alina Yurenko on a Bootiful Podcast

Liiiive from New York, it's a Bootiful Podcast! This week I @starbuxman talk to Developer Advocate for GraalVM at Oracle Labs, and legend, Alina Yurenko @alinayurenko...

A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Amanda Martin, Gradle developer advocate

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks with Gradle developer advocate Dr. Amanda Martin @DrAmandaLMartin...

A Bootiful Podcast: Field CTO and Chief Evangelist at Gradle Justin Reock

Hi, Spring fans and happy holidays!! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Field CTO and Chief Evangelist at Gradle Justin Reock...

A Bootiful Podcast: Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg on rich UIs, Spring Boot 3, GraalVM native images, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Vaadins Marcus Hellberg @marcushellberg about rich UIs, Vaadin Flow, the new Hilla Framework, GraalVM native image compilation, and so much more...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud legend Glenn Renfro about batch processing, tasks, stream processing, data flow, and t-shirts

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Spring Cloud luminary and all around lovable guy Glenn Renfro @cppwfs about batch processing, tasks, messaging, integration, data flow, and a million other things. Also:...

Spring Tips: Brave, Bold, and Boring YugabyteDB

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we dare to be boring with YugabyteDB, a distributed database that just works. Its a database that feels like PostgreSQL but scales like Apache Cassandra...

This Week in Spring - June 16th, 2026

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the oh-so-delightful and delicious! city of New Delhi, India. It's been a real privilege to come and visit so many amazing people. Last night my friend DaShaun and I presented here at the local Delhi JUG,...

cve-2026-40986 - MEDIUM - Spring Web Flow JS RemotingHandler renders non-HTML Response as HTML

cve-2026-40986 - MEDIUM - Spring Web Flow JS RemotingHandler renders non-HTML Response as HTML...

cve-2026-40992 - MEDIUM - Mail Auto-Configuration Does Not Enable SSL Hostname Verification

cve-2026-40992 - MEDIUM - Mail Auto-Configuration Does Not Enable SSL Hostname Verification...

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-2026-41700 - HIGH - Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking in Spring for GraphQL

cve-2026-41700 - HIGH - Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking in Spring for GraphQL...

cve-2026-40997 - MEDIUM - SOAP security faults leak Spring Security account state

cve-2026-40997 - MEDIUM - SOAP security faults leak Spring Security account state...

cve-2026-41003 - HIGH - Unencoded HTML Outputs in Spring Security May Allow Cross-Site Scripting

cve-2026-41003 - HIGH - Unencoded HTML Outputs in Spring Security May Allow Cross-Site Scripting...

cve-2026-41706 - MEDIUM - Open Redirect When Using CookieRequestCache

cve-2026-41706 - MEDIUM - Open Redirect When Using CookieRequestCache...

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-2026-41839: Spring Framework Escalation via Session Fixation in WebFlux

A WebFlux application with a compromised subdomain for example, compromised via cross-site scripting XSS is vulnerable to an escalation attack exchanging a known session ID for that of an authenticated user...

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...

Self Routing guard bypassed via function composition

Under infinite recursion in the routing layer, request-handling can cause OOM error...

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...

Denial of service in static resource handling on Windows platforms

Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks when resolving static resources. More precisely, an application can be vulnerable when all the following are true: When all the conditions above are met, the attacker can send malicious requests that are slow to resol...

A Bootiful Podcast: Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on MCP Security

Hi Spring, AI, Spring AI, security, and Spring Security fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Daniel-Garnier Moiroux! ai mcp security java...

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...

Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 4): Subagent Orchestration

Instead of one generalist agent doing everything, delegate to specialized agents. This keeps context windows focused—preventing the clutter that degrades performance. Task tool, part of the spring-ai-agent-utils toolkit, is a portable, model-agnostic Spring AI implementation inspired by Claude...

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...

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...

Path traversal vulnerability on non-compliant Servlet containers

Spring Framework MVC applications can be vulnerable to a “Path Traversal Vulnerability” when deployed on a non-compliant Servlet container. An application can be vulnerable when all the following are true: We have verified that applications deployed on Apache Tomcat or Eclipse Jetty are not...

This Week in Spring - June 24th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in the middle of June already! And you know what that means? Warm weather, fun, and of course: the amazing SpringOne event in lovely Las Vegas, NV! The content catalog went live today! I'll be there doing, among other...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring IO founder Sergi Almar on Spring IO 2025

Hi, Spring and Spring I/O fans! In this installment we have the privilege of chatting with friend of the community and legend Sergi Almar about the amazing Spring IO 2025, where this episode was published, and a lot more...

Spring Data Ahead of Time Repositories

In the past couple of years we have seen heavy investment throughout the Java ecosystem to reduce application startup times. The main focus gravitates around Ahead-of-Time optimizations. May it be condensing code into a GraalVM native executable, capturing already optimized bytecode with...

Spring Framework DataBinder Case Sensitive Match Exception (2nd update)

CVE-2024-38820 ensured Locale-independent, lowercase conversion for both the configured disallowedFields patterns and for request parameter names. However, there are still cases where it is possible to bypass the disallowedFields checks...

Spring Boot EndpointRequest.to() creates wrong matcher if actuator endpoint is not exposed

EndpointRequest.to creates a matcher for null/ if the actuator endpoint, for which the EndpointRequest has been created, is disabled or not exposed. Your application may be affected by this if all the following conditions are met: You are not affected if any of the following is true:...

A Bootiful Podcast: My friend Anthony Dahanne on Buildpacks, Production, Docker images, and more

Salut fans de Spring! In this installment I'm joined by the legendary Anthony Dahanne. If you've enjoyed success in production using Spring's built-in spring-boot:build-image capability, you've got today's guest Anthony to thank for it!...

This Week in Spring - February 25th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! Later today I'll board a plane for magnificent Montreal, Canada for the amazing Confoo conference! I'm super excited! Good news everybody! Spring Boot 3.5.0-M2 is now available! In last week's installment of t...

Audio Multimodality: Expanding AI Interaction with Spring AI and OpenAI

This blog post is co-authored by our great contributor Thomas Vitale. OpenAI provides specialized models for speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion, recognized for their performance and cost-efficiency. Spring AI integrates these capabilities via Voice-to-Text and Text-to-Speech TTS. The ne...

Why Spring AI: The Seamless Path to Generative AI

Why Spring AI: The Seamless Path for Spring Developers to the World of Generative AI Intro As a Java developer exploring the world of generative AI, you’re probably aware of several frameworks that promise to make AI integration easy. I believe Spring AI stands out as the natural choice, especial...