A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security community legend Laur Spilca

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Security community legend Laur Spilca, live from the Spring I/O show in beautiful Barcelona!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Abdel Sghiouar, Cloud Native Developer Advocate at Google

Hi, Spring fans! Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Native Developer Advocate at Google, a co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador, and it was my pleasure to sit down with him at the amazing Spring IO event in Barcelona and catch up on all things Kubernetes and Google...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot cofounders Phil Webb and Dr. David Syer on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to cofounders Phil Webb and Dr. David Syer, on the occassion of the 10th Anniversary of Spring Boot...

Spring Security 6.3 Adds Passive JDK Serialization/Deserialization for Seamless Upgrades

In the early versions of Spring Security, a deliberate decision was made to avoid providing any guarantee of compatibility for serialized classes via JDK serialization between different versions of the project. This decision primarily took into account the context of RMI, with the recommendation...

This Week in Spring - May 16th 2023

My friends, Spring Boot 3.1 is nearly upon us! It drops on 18 May, in just a few short days! There are a ton of amazing features in this new release and I hope you're already trying it out you know where. Here are some of my favorite features: Built in Docker Compose support - Have a...

A Bootiful Podcast: Avalara's Kumaresan Muthaliar on GraphQL in the heavily regulated, data intensive domain of tax

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Kumaresan Muthaliar, senior technical lead at Avalara, about GraphQL in the heavily regulated, data intensive domain of tax...

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 Im in Atlanta, Georgia, to speak at the Atlanta Java User Group. And, of course, next week, Ill be in New York to join a viewing party for the airing of SpringOne...

cve-2026-47835 - HIGH - Spring AI vector store metadata filtering to handle special characters in Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and GemFire Vector Stores

cve-2026-47835 - HIGH - Spring AI vector store metadata filtering to handle special characters in Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and GemFire Vector Stores...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security lead Rob Winch answers some security questions for me

Hi Spring and security fans! I got the legendary Spring Security lead Rob Winch to answers some of my burning security questions for us! Also: make sure you're downloading all the updates for the new Spring releases this week, the week of June 11th, 2026! or later...

Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 5): Building Interoperable Agents with the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol

The Agent2Agent A2A Protocol is an open standard for seamless AI agent communication. It enables agents to discover capabilities, exchange messages, and coordinate workflows across platforms—regardless of their implementation. Spring AI A2A integrates the A2A Java SDK with Spring AI through Sprin...

Next level Kotlin support in Spring Boot 4

Following the announcement of the strategic partnership between JetBrains and Spring in May, I would like to share a global update on various Kotlin-related features and documentation enhancements we have made recently, with the goal of making Spring Boot 4 the best framework to develop backend...

This Week in Spring - January 14th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans, and greetings from the island of St. Barths! Salut depuis l'île de Saint-Barthélemy! I'm on a bit of PTO and have been bouncing around from one beach to another with my family. I just landed on a winning combination for a beach: warm water, a restaurant/bar, and some for-pay seat...

Spring Tips: Introducing Spring Modulith

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the amazing Spring Modulith project. It's goal is to help you better structure your codebase for architectural scalability. It's an amazing and refreshing approach to building applications. Think of it like a chance to pair program on the architectu...

A Bootiful Podcast: cloud native Chris Richardson

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to original cloud native Chris Richardson on microservices, architecture, and more...

Spring Tips: the road to Spring Framework 6: the new Ahead-of-Time Compilation Engine and GraalVM

Hi, Spring fans! Spring Boot 3 is here or will be tomorrow, on the 24th of November, 2022, to be more precise!, bringing a fantastic new Ahead-of-Time AOT compilation engine that supports GraalVM native images. Join me, and well dive deep into the engine and its interactions with the Spring...

This Week in Spring - July 12th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? This week Im writing you from sunny Seattle, Washington, where were having our next installment of the SpringOne Tour series. Its been a ton of fun seeing all these fun and friendly faces again and getting to see...

CVE-2026-41730

CVE-2026-41730...

cve-2026-47841 - HIGH - WebAuthn User Verification Bypass via Session Serialization

cve-2026-47841 - HIGH - WebAuthn User Verification Bypass via Session Serialization...

This Week in Spring - August 4th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 4th of August! We're already in month eight of this year! Great Scott! This is an interesting project to help ensure idempotency keys for Spring Boot requests A very interesting post on The New Stack titled, When...

cve-2026-41727 - MEDIUM - In Spring for Apache Kafka, forged retry topic headers subvert retry routing and backoff behavior

cve-2026-41727 - MEDIUM - In Spring for Apache Kafka, forged retry topic headers subvert retry routing and backoff behavior...

This Week in Spring - April 14th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! ¡Hola from Barcelona, Spain! I'm at the amazing Spring I/O event, hanging out with some of the amazing Spring ecosystem developers! Life is amazing here in the warm sun of springtime. There's a lot to look at this week, so let's dive right into it! Another nice tutorial on how to...

A Bootiful Podcast: Apache Tomcat legend Mark Thomas (Happy new year!)

In this episode, I talk with Mark Thomas, the legendary and highly prolific committer to Apache Tomcat. Happy New Year!...

OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot

This is a new blog post in the Road to GA series, and this time we're taking a look at OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot. Introduction In modern cloud native architectures, observability is no longer optional; it is a fundamental requirement. You want to understand what your application is doing via...

The Road to GA - Introduction

As you all should be aware by now, the Spring portfolio is in the process of driving towards the next major versions to be released in November of this year. This will be only the fourth major generation for Spring Boot and the seventh major generation for Spring Framework in its over 20 year...

This Week in Spring - January 21st, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's time to dive into this week's wondrous roundup! Good news, everybody! Spring Cloud AWS 3.3.0 is available! A neat video on stored procedures in Spring A very interesting article on the flow diagrams for Sprin...

This Week in Spring - August 22, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And, would you believe it, I'm writing this at SpringOne 2023, in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first in-person SpringOne since 2019, and I'm so, so, so glad to be here! We've got a ton of things to get into this week,...

This Week in Spring - July 11th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in yummy, sunny Jakarta, Indonesia at the moment, preparing for a week of meetings and the SpringOne Tour Indonesia event later this week. I'll also be speaking in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 20th, 2023 . If you're in...

A Bootiful Podcast: Gradle Developer Advocate, Java Champion, and legend Trisha Gee

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Java Champion and legend Trisha Gee @trishagee rejoins the show to talk about Gradle, developer productivity, and so much more...

This Week in Spring - March 28th, 202

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm reporting to you from Los Angeles, where my family and I have gone for my daughter's spring break. We're going to survey some prospective colleges and we're going to Disneyland. Needless to say, I'm doubly glad to have al...

This Week in Spring - December 13th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I truly, absolutely, can not believe that were nearly done with the year already! Have you made your new years resolutions? Submitted your expense reports? Its that time of the year when Im going to start focusing on staying...

A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Asir Selvasingh on Azure Spring Apps, Java at Microsoft, application security, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxma talks to his friend, Microsofts Asir Selvasingh @asirselvasingh, about Azure Spring Apps, Java at Microsoft, Spring, application security, and more. Want to learn more? Join us at SpringOne 6-8 December 2022! Want to meet amazing people...

This Week in Spring - October 4th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Its October 4th, 2022, and Im in Austin, TX, for the new version of show formerly known as the Kafka Summit, here to talk to folks about the amazing opportunities for Spring Boot and Apache Kafka. On the 12th, Ill be in...

A Bootiful Podcast: Fellow Java Champion and TimescaleDB developer advocate Christoph Engelbert

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow Java Champion and TimescaleDB developer advocate Christoph Engelbert @noctarius2k about PostgreSQL, Java, time series databases, observability, and so much more...

This Week in Spring - July 5th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This weeks all sorts of weird for me. Its Tuesday! But here in the US we just celebrated the 4th of July, and I, like many Americans, took a long weekend. Took some time with the family to do a little road trip up north to...

CVE-2014-0225

CVE-2014-0225...

Towards Spring Tools 5 - Stereotypes and a new Structural View

When working on Spring projects, developers do not only think in terms of low-level concepts like classes and interfaces. When using Spring, you think about higher-level abstractions and concepts like services, repositories, configuration classes, entities, aggregate roots, and so on. To bring...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring community legend and friend Simon Martinelli

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving from me, and I am sure the entire Spring team, to you! We are, it should be clear, oh so very grateful.. thankful.. for you, the community. This week it is my great pleasure to chat with Spring community legend Simon Martinelli...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and legend Henri Tremblay

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Henri Tremblay, head of TS Imagine Canada, Java Champion, Montreal JUG leader, EasyMock lead dev and all around legend!...

This Week in Spring - February 11th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do. I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be...

This Week in Spring - December 3rd, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the first week of December and I am in the amazing city of Perth, Australia. Perth, for those of you who don't know, is amazing. And well worth the journey. But it is quite the journey! 27 hours, door-to-door, from San...

Spring Tips: Go Further, Faster with Spring Boot 3.3 (UPDATED)

NB: I had an error in the AppCDS demo in the older video. This video supercedes that video, with a re-recorded segment on AppCDS. Make sure you're watching the latest of these two similarly titled videos! Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at ways to make your applications go further,...

A Bootiful Podcast: Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on Passkeys and Spring Security

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend and colleague Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the amazing awesome implications of passkeys in a Spring Security application...

A Bootiful Podcast: Mr. Spring in Action, Craig Walls

Hi, Spring fans! This week, I'm joined by one of my longtime heroes and fellow Disney fans, Craig Walls @habuma. He wrote the most popular book on Spring, Spring in Action, while helping the world stay connected with efforts like Spring Social. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne 2023, in...

The new Spring Boot version validation and upgrade support in Spring Tools

New releases of Spring Boot are being released on a quite frequent schedule and updating your projects to newer versions of Spring Boot is something that many teams and organizations around the globe do as part of their daily work. Sometimes those upgrades are simple and easy, for example for new...

Price Reduction - Azure Spring Apps does more, costs less!

We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offerings at incredibly competitive prices. As we operate Azure Spring Apps, we continue to build efficiencies and economies of scale. We are passing those efficiencies to you. Many customers have asked us to lower the size of the base unit to mak...

This Week in Spring - September 15th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this to you from sun-kissed San Francisco, CA, sipping some coffee and watching the bay from my breakfast nook. What a wonderful day! A wonderful day in which to learn about the latest and greatest in...

This Week in Spring - September 8th, 2026

Bonjour a tout le monde! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! It's a fabulous and fun day here in Paris, France, as I wait to board the train to Amsterdam for the IntelliJ IDEA conference! It's going to be amazing. We've got another incredible week's roundup to dive...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando on Java 27 and Beyond

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, I am thrilled to have the chance to sit down with Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando to talk about the amazing features in the upcoming Java 27! We recorded this a day before I flew to San Francisco to attend the world premiere of the Java documentary, so a...

A Bootiful Podcast: JetBrains' Marit van Dijk

hi Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! In this installment I talk to my friend and JetBrains Developer Advocate extraordinaire Marit van Dijk! This episode was recorded at JNation, an amazing show in Coimbra, Portugal! jetbrains java jnation...

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...