Moritz Halbritter

Moritz Halbritter

Working in software development since 2011 and being an open source enthusiast forever, Moritz joined the Spring team in early 2022. Currently he is working on Spring Boot and is the team lead for start.spring.io and Spring Initializr.

Recent Blog posts by Moritz Halbritter

Spring Boot 4.0.9 available now

Releases | October 23, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 99 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 4.1.2 available now

Releases | October 23, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.1.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 126 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 4.2.0-RC1 available now

Releases | October 23, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.2.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 113 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include: The default Buildpacks builder is now paketobuildpacks/ubuntu-resolute-builder, based on Ubuntu 26.04. spring-boot-properties-migrator can now fail the application on errors or warnings. Startup performance improvements, including faster class and resource lookup in executable jars. Please see the…

Spring Boot 4.2.0-M2 available now

Releases | September 25, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.2.0-M2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 141 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include: SSL bundle support for LDAP, including LDAPS support for the embedded LDAP server. Support for OpenTelemetry's semantic conventions, alongside common OTLP endpoint, header, and compression configuration. Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions. Thanks to all those who…

Spring Boot 3.5.12 available now

Releases | March 19, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 46 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. CVEs fixed in this release This release fixes both "CVE-2026-22731: Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths" and "CVE-2026-22733: Authentication Bypass under Actuator CloudFoundry endpoints". Spring Boot Commercial releases are also available. How can…

Spring Boot 4.0.4 available now

Releases | March 19, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 67 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. CVEs fixed in this release This release fixes both "CVE-2026-22731: Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths" and "CVE-2026-22733: Authentication Bypass under Actuator CloudFoundry endpoints". Spring Boot Commercial releases are also available. How can you…

Spring Boot 4.0.3 available now

Releases | February 19, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 47 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 3.5.11 available now

Releases | February 19, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 35 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 3.5.10 available now

Releases | January 22, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 29 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 3.4.12 available now

Releases | November 20, 2025 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 45 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

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