Oliver Drotbohm

Oliver Drotbohm

Oliver Drotbohm has been a member of the Spring open source engineering team for 15 years. His work focused on software architecture, DDD, REST, and persistence technologies.

Recent Blog posts by Oliver Drotbohm

Spring Modulith 1.1.6 and 1.2.1 released

Releases | June 21, 2024 | ...

I am delighted to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.1.6 and 1.2.1. The releases contain a few bug fixes, minor new features and the usual dependency upgrades. The highlights are the following:

  • The ability to configure an ApplicationModuleDetectionStrategy via spring.modulith.detection-strategyGH-656.
  • Fixes in dependency verifications involving named interfaces – GH-661, GH-662.
  • Upgrades to Spring Boot 3.2.7 (GH-675) and 3.3.1 (GH-678).

Find more information about the releases in the full change logs for 1.1.6 and 1.2.1.

Spring Modulith 1.2, 1.1.5, and 1.0.8 released

Releases | May 24, 2024 | ...

I am excited to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.2 alongside the service releases 1.1.5 and 1.0.8. The latter two contain a lot of bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. 1.2 most notably ships with new features:

  • Support for open application modules
  • Support for a package-info.java alternative for Kotlin
  • Indexes for event publication registry database tables (JDBC)
  • Spring AOT-generated classes excluded from verification
  • Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3 (while retaining compatibility with 3.2 and 3.1)

Find more information in the full changelogs for 1.2 (RC1, M3, M2, M1), 1.1.5 and 1.0.8

Spring Modulith 1.0.7 and 1.1.4 released

Releases | April 29, 2024 | ...

I am happy to announce the release of Spring Modulith 1.0.7 and 1.1.4. it primarily ships an upgrade to ArchUnit 1.1.1 which in turn includes a fix to now support the new fat JAR format of Spring Boot. It had been improved in 3.2 but unfortunately broke ArchUnit's class scanning. Spring Modulith applications that were using the runtime, actuator and observability modules had been affected and should now properly work.

Find more information about the releases in the full change logs for 1.0.7 and 1.1.4.

Spring Modulith 1.2 RC1 released

Releases | April 19, 2024 | ...

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.2 RC1. Its most important new features are:

  • Dependency upgrades to Spring Boot 3.3 RC1, ArchUnit 1.3, and jMolecules 2023.1.3
  • Optimized starters to avoid them being included in the packaged JAR
  • Improved reference documentation

For more details check out the full change log and the reference documentation.

The release of a first release candidate is a perfect opportunity to give the new version a try. We're looking forward to your feedback and aim for a GA release at the end of May, immediately following Spring Boot 3.3.

Spring Modulith 1.2 M3 released

Releases | March 22, 2024 | ...

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.2 M3. It contains a couple of dependency upgrades, bug fixes but the following new features primarily:

  • Support for open application modules – Application modules can now be declared as open, which gives other modules full access to the open module's internals. Primarily intended for scenarios in which Spring Modulith is introduced in existing, sub-optimally structured projects.
  • Support for package info types – Kotlin does not directly support annotating packages as it doesn't know an equivalent of package-info.java. Package-level configuration annotations such as @ApplicationModule or @NamedInterface can now be used on types annotated with @PackageInfo.
  • @ApplicationModuleListener now exposes @EventListener's condition

Spring HATEOAS 2.1.4, 2.2.1 and 2.3 M1 released

Releases | March 14, 2024 | ...

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring HATEOAS 2.1.4, 2.2.1 and 2.3 M1. The releases primarily contain bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

For the 2.1.4 and 2.2.1 service releases we have deviated from our usual dependency upgrade policy which only allows bug fix upgrades of dependencies in bug fix releases. These branches had referenced a version of the JSONPath library that has a CVE attached to it which was only fixed in a new minor release. We exceptionally decided to upgrade to that fixed version.

For a full list of changes, refer to the individual change logs of 2.1.4, 2.2.1 and 2.3 M1

Spring Modulith 1.0.6, 1.1.3 and 1.2 M2 released

Releases | February 23, 2024 | ...

I'm excited to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.0.6, 1.1.3 and 1.2 M2. The milestone release adds indexes to the event publication registry database tables, improves the execution of the database initialization and moves off the legacy Structurizr diagram generation. On top of that we ship bug fixes in the event externalization, observability infrastructure and event publication registry APIs that all have been back-ported into the service releases.

More details about what went into which release can be found in the change logs linked above.

Spring Modulith 1.0.5, 1.1.2 and 1.2 M1 released

Releases | January 19, 2024 | ...

I'm excited to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.0.5, 1.1.2 and 1.2 M1. The releases primarily ship bug fixes and minor improvements regarding the event publication registry, event externalization and general configuration.

Beyond that, 1.2 M1 contains advanced dependency updates such as the one to Boot 3.3 M1 but remains generally compatible with previous 3.x versions of it.

More details about what went into which release can be found in the change logs linked above.

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