Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's February 4th, 2025, as I write this. We are ten days away from Valentine's day, and about a month away from Devnexus. Lots to look forward to, in both the short term and the long term!

Let's dive right into this week's roundup!

• Thanks very much to the San Francisco JUG for letting Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb and I take a little stroll down memory lane, and revisit at the first 10 whole years of Spring Boot. This was a ton of fun!
• our friend, Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg, has a really crazy example of a Spring Boot and Vaadin application that uses Spring AI MCP to update itself!
• Bellsoft's Catherine Edelveis has a nice video on Dockerizing your Spring Boot applications
• do you ever want an exploding code minigame from within your IntelliJ IDEA? there's a plugin for that!
• Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.1 and 2025.0.0 are now available
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to HTMX creator Carson Gross.
• and just this morning, I had another discussion - but this time intended for Youtube! - with Carson, looking at how to actually weild HTMX and Spring Boot together
• Spring Boot 3.4 came out in November and brought with it a ton of cool features! Did you see the roundups I did looking at the various portfolio projects, both above and below that release? What's new in Spring AI M4 , What's new in Spring Modulith 1.3, What's new in Spring Batch 5.2, What's new in Spring Integration 6.4, What's new in Spring Security 6.4, What's new in Spring Data 2024.1?, and finally What's new in Spring Framework 6.2