Dear Spring Community,

This post serves to announce the sunset of two legacy public repositories dating all the way back to SpringSource and early VMware days. Both have been well out of support for over a decade now.

repository.springsource.com and spring-roo-repository.springsource.org will be closed permanently on January 6, 2025 and removed from DNS, as we retire these domains.

If you still need something from either then you should grab it while you can, and maybe reflect on why.

A critical piece of infrastructure, the Spring Artifactory instance repo.spring.io, lies at the heart of the Spring portfolio development work. Since 2013, JFrog, Inc. has generously sponsored the instance for the Spring developer community.

The Artifactory repository streamlines our project development by acting as a single location where Spring engineers can point their builds and by providing the community with early access to our snapshots and milestones.

Today, we are providing notice of some upcoming changes to the repository.

Upcoming Changes

If you use repo.spring.io as directed by start.spring.io, (for example, using only /snapshot and /milestone…