Phil Webb

Phil Webb

Phil Webb is a Spring Framework developer and co-creator of the Spring Boot project. Prior to joining Pivotal and relocating to California, Phil worked for a number of UK technology companies.

Blog posts by Phil Webb

Spring Boot 3.4.0-RC1 available now

Releases | October 26, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 142 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Updated Buildpacks support with support for both ARM and x86 architectures
  • Updated ClientHttpRequestFactory support, including new builders and support for more customization
  • Improved support for controlling access to Actuator endpoints

Please see the release notes for more…

Spring Boot 3.4.0-M3 available now

Releases | September 19, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 111 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Spring for Apache Pulsar updates
  • Observability improvements
  • Improvements when using @AutoConfigureTestDatabase with containers

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How…

Spring Boot 3.4.0-M2 available now

Releases | August 23, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.0-M2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 131 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • SSL information and health check actuator
  • Improved Docker support
  • Image Building Support

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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 or chat with the community on Gitter

Spring Boot 3.3.0-RC1 available now

Releases | April 19, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 93 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Auto-configure support for Embedded Web Server SSL with SNI
  • Support for Prometheus Client 1.x
  • Completion of our documentation migration to Antora

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and…

Spring Boot 3.3.0-M3 available now

Releases | March 22, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 70 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Support for CDS archives
  • Base64 Resources
  • SBOM Actuator Endpoint

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

NOTE: We are in the process of migrating the Spring Boot documentation to Antora. The docs for this release will be a little delayed.

Thanks to…

Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC2 available now

Releases | November 03, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 69 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This release attempts to fix a few issues that were found with RC1. Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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 or chat with the community on Gitter

Spring Boot 2.5.15 and 2.6.15 available now, fixing CVE-2023-20883

Releases | May 18, 2023 | ...

I happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.15 and 2.6.15 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

This release follows a request from a customer with commercial support that was looking to have the ability to upgrade to later versions of SnakeYAML.

This release also includes fixes for CVE-2023-20883: Spring Boot Welcome Page DoS Vulnerability as well as CVE-2023-20873: Security Bypass With Wildcard Pattern Matching on Cloud Foundry.

If you're interested in purchasing commercial support for Spring, please see https://spring.io/support.

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 or chat with the community on Gitter

Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC2 available now

Releases | May 05, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 58 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable refinements include:

  • More service connections for both Docker Compose and Testcontainers
  • Support for @ImportTestcontainers and dynamic properties
  • SSL configuration support for Redis and Elasticsearch

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have…

Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC1 available now

Releases | April 22, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 112 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Improved Testcontainers support including support at development time
  • Support for Docker Compose
  • SSL Configuration enhancements
  • Improvements for Docker Image Building

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed…

Spring Boot 3.1.0-M1 available now

Releases | February 24, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 105 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Different log levels for file and console
  • Maximum HTTP Response Header Size
  • Many dependency upgrades

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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 or chat with the community on Gitter

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