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 history. We are excited to bring you a great set of new features that builds on the current foundations.

While we are keeping the JDK baseline at JDK 17 because that is the industry consensus, we will upgrade to Jakarta EE 11 (Tomcat 11, Hibernate ORM 7, Hibernate Validator 9) and embrace other upgrades…

Spring Cloud Data Flow End of Open-Source

TL;DR; Today we're announcing that going forward we will not be maintaining Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Cloud Deployer, or Spring Statemachine as open-source projects. Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.11.x, Spring Cloud Deployer 2.9.x, and Spring Statemachine 4.0.x will be the last open-source lines and any future releases will only be made available to Tanzu Spring customers. This change has no impact on the rest of the open-source Spring portfolio or the support obligations of the currently available OSS versions for existing users.

Spring Cloud Data…

TL;DR; The Spring portfolio enterprise support tier is aligning all support dates to Spring Boot and going to be extended for the last minor version of each major generation for an additional 5 years beyond the previous support arrangement providing 7 years of total support for those versions.

Upgrading is hard. We get that. Whether it be technical difficulties, prioritization of upgrades against other business priorities, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, etc. While we already offer one of the most generous and predictable support policies in the industry for open source frameworks with one…

TL;DR; The Spring portfolio will begin releasing its milestones and release candidates to Maven Central starting with the releases related to the major versions due out in November.

As we enter the new year, we look forward to many new opportunities for the Spring ecosystem. We see JDK 25 coming in the fall. We see both minor versions of the entire portfolio and a new major version coming out this year with a long list of new capabilities. And we see Spring AI going GA ushering in a new class of workloads for enterprise applications, bringing agentic AI to the enterprise through programming…

Last month, the team delivered a release train that includes Spring Framework 6.2 (the final minor version for the Spring Framework 6.x line), Spring Boot 3.4, and a round of minor version updates across the portfolio, this is a time to celebrate the new capabilities that have been added, as well as clarify the long term support arrangement for the portfolio.

New Capabilities Abound

Below is just a small sampling of the new and exciting capabilities included in the November releases of the Spring portfolio. We encourage you to check out the release notes for your favorite projects for further…

Upgrading takes time. We understand that. Spring Boot 3 came out in November of 2022 bringing with it a new, modernized baseline of Java 17 and the migration from Java EE to Jakarta EE. It included over 55 managed dependency updates. Native compilation via GraalVM was a first-class option across the portfolio and observability out of the box was a core capability of all Spring projects. However, it wasn't until Spring Boot 3.2 where we began to see that the community's adoption of Spring Boot 3 surpassing that of Spring Boot 2's adoption. Spring Boot 3 has quickly overtaken Spring Boot 2 but…

TL;DR; Download the State of Spring Survey 2024 report here!

We asked...and you answered. The State of Spring Survey 2024 walks through all of the latest trends in the Java and Spring ecosystems. Responded to by over 1400 respondents, we asked about virtual threads, testcontainers, and native compilation with GraalVM. You told us about Kubernetes, generative AI, and upgrade practices in your enterprise. The State of Spring Survey 2024 was the most comprehensive survey we have ever put out and we are pleased to be able to share the results with our community.

The report, available now at https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/state-of-spring-2024…

We’re excited to share some great news! Spring Academy Pro will no longer require a paid subscription. It will be available here to everyone who registers a work, vocational, or educational email address.

What is Spring Academy?

Spring Academy is a comprehensive online learning platform for Spring developers. Created by the stewards of the Spring portfolio, Spring Academy courses ensure that you learn the most accurate and up-to-date information, with a hands-on learning experience that allows you to apply what you've learned and gain the skills necessary to create robust, scalable, and…

We are excited to announce the State of Spring Survey! Make sure your voice is heard by heading over to https://spring.io/survey and give us your feedback!

Are you excited to use virtual threads? Is AI all hype or is it game changing? What would you change about Spring if you could? (You can, by the way.)

The State of Spring survey is back! Last time we learned that 90% of respondents were looking forward to virtual threads through Project Loom. We learned that building APIs was still the main use case for Spring applications, with plain JSON over HTTP as the number one type of API. We also…

In November of last year, the team released major versions across the Spring portfolio, shepherding in a new foundation for enterprise application development on the JVM for the next decade. With that round of major versions, the Java baseline for the projects was increased from Java 8 to Java 17 as well as the migration from Java EE to Jakarta EE. Beyond the new baseline, we introduced new native compilation capabilities via GraalVM as well as improved observability across the portfolio. We realize that, while we put a lot of work into making the upgrade as seamless as we possibly can within…