Stéphane Nicoll

Stéphane Nicoll

Stéphane has 20+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on API development on the JVM. After having spent more than a decade developing large scale Java enterprise applications in the geospatial, financial, or logistics sectors, he joins the core Spring engineering team in 2014.

As a member of the Spring team, Stéphane has had the privilege of working on various aspects of Spring Boot and Spring Framework, with a focus on understanding its inner workings and collaborating with the fantastic community of contributors.

Connect with Stéphane ("snicoll") on X and GitHub to follow his ongoing journey in the world of Java development.

Blog posts by Stéphane Nicoll

Spring Boot 3.5.0 available now

Releases | May 22, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 3.5

The highlights of the 3.5 release include:

  • Structured Logging Improvements
  • SSL Support for Service Connections
  • Load Properties From Environment Variables
  • AsyncTaskExecutor with Custom Executor
  • Auto-configuration for Bean Background Initialization
  • Annotations to Register Filter and Servlet

Spring Boot 3.4.6 available now

Releases | May 22, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 39 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 3.3.12 available now

Releases | May 22, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 33 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 Web Services 4.1.0 available now

Releases | May 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release adds a number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 4.1

The highlights of the 4.1 release include:

  • Apache Axiom Support has been restored
  • Support for WSS4J v4
  • Support for Configuring Arbitrary WSS4J Options
  • More Flexible HTTP Message Sender

Dependency upgrades

Spring Web Services 4.1 moves to new versions of several Spring projects and we’ve also upgraded to the latest stable releases of other third-party libraries wherever possible. Please see the release notes

Spring Web Services 4.0.14 available now

Releases | May 15, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.0.14 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 1 dependency upgrade. 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-ws tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow

Spring Web Services 4.0.13 available now

Releases | April 22, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.0.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 10 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-ws tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation |

Spring Web Services 4.1.0-RC1 available now

Releases | April 22, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 21 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Support for Configuring Arbitrary WSS4J Options
  • More Flexible HTTP Message Sender

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-ws tag

Spring Boot 3.3.10 available now

Releases | March 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.10 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.

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 Web Services 4.1.0-M1 available now

Releases | March 18, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This first release includes 16 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Support for Apache Axiom has been restored now that it supports Jakarta.
  • Apache WSS4J has been upgraded to 4.0.0.

Spring Web Services 4.1.x is based on Spring Framework 6.2.x and Spring Security 6.5.x and will be the LTS in that line.

Please see the release notes for…

Spring Web Services 4.0.12 available now

Releases | March 18, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.0.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 13 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-ws tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation |

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