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.

Recent Blog posts by Phil Webb

Spring Boot 1.3.0.RC1 Available Now

Releases | October 21, 2015 | ...
Spring Boot v1.3.0.RC1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release closes almost 140 issues and merges 53 pull-requests! Thanks to everyone that has contributed. We're not planning on having a long release candidate phase, so please do try RC1 and let us know if you find any problems. For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.2.6 released

Releases | September 20, 2015 | ...
Spring Boot 1.2.6 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and 3rd party dependency updates. Thanks a lot to @jbaruch from JFrog for presenting with me at this years SpringOne2GX and persuading me to make this release live on stage! We recommend that all Spring Boot users upgrade. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.3.0.M5 Available Now

Releases | September 04, 2015 | ...
Spring Boot v1.3.0.M5 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. Just in time for SpringOne 2GX, this release closes almost 50 issues and merges 15 pull-requests! Thanks again to everyone that has contributed. Highlights of the new release include: Lots of bug fixes and stabilization as we head towards RC1 Support for javax @WebServlet, @WebFilter and @WebListener annotations Auto-configuration for Hazelcast Improved "root first" exception logging For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference…

Spring Boot 1.3.0.M2 Available Now

Releases | July 10, 2015 | ...
Spring Boot v1.3.0.M2 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release closes a whopping 73 issues and merges 59 pull-requests! Thanks to everyone that has contributed. Highlights of the new release include: Auto-configuration support for jOOQ. Hypermedia support for actuator endpoints. Support for ANSI color banner.txt files. An improved way to access ApplicationArguments. New /flyway, /liquibase and /logfile actuator endpoints. Auto-configuration support for Spring Session with Redis. Property based configuration of Spring's "resource chains". New logback

Spring Boot 1.2.5 released

Releases | July 02, 2015 | ...
Spring Boot 1.2.5 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and most importantly updates the managed Spring Framework dependency to version 4.1.7 (which includes an important security fix). We recommend that all Spring Boot users upgrade. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

DevTools in Spring Boot 1.3

Engineering | June 17, 2015 | ...
Spring Boot 1.3 will ship with a brand new module called spring-boot-devtools. The aim of this module is to try and improve the development-time experience when working on Spring Boot applications. To use the module you simply need to add it as a dependency in your Maven POM: or your Gradle build file: Once included, the spring-boot-devtools module provides a number of nice features that we cover below (If you can't be bother to read the text, skip to the end of the post for a short video). Property Defaults If you've used templating technologies such as Thymeleaf with Spring Boot 1.2, you…

Spring Boot 1.3.0.M1 Available Now

Releases | June 12, 2015 | ...
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Boot v1.3.0.M1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release builds on Spring Framework 4.2.0.RC1 and provides a number of improvements and new features over Spring Boot 1.2. Highlights include: A new spring-boot-devtools module with support for automatic restart, LiveReload and remote update. Extensive caching support for EhCache, Hazelcast, Infinispan, Redis, Guava or any compliant JSR-107 (JCache) implementation. Cache metric information is now also exposed via the actuator (when the underlying technology supports it). Improved…

Spring Boot 1.2.3 released

Releases | March 31, 2015 | ...
Spring Boot 1.2.3 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all users. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.1.12 released

Engineering | March 31, 2015 | ...
Spring Boot 1.1.12 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and is recommended for anyone still on the 1.1.x line. This the last planned release from the 1.1.x branch so please consider upgrading to 1.2.3 if you haven't already. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.1.11 released

Releases | February 27, 2015 | ...
Spring Boot 1.1.11 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and is recommended for anyone still on the 1.1.x line. We're only planning critical bug fixes for 1.1.x from now on so please consider upgrading to 1.2.2 if possible. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

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