Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Boot and Spring Initializr legend Moritz Halbritter

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment, I talk to Spring legend Glenn Renfro.

TL;DR; The Spring portfolio enterprise support tier is aligning all support dates to Spring Boot and going to be extended for the last minor version of each major generation for an additional 5 years beyond the previous support arrangement providing 7 years of total support for those versions.

Upgrading is hard. We get that. Whether it be technical difficulties, prioritization of upgrades against other business priorities, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, etc. While we already offer one of the most generous and predictable support policies in the industry for open source frameworks with one…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the second milestone of the next Spring Framework generation.

If you've missed it, we now ship milestones to the usual repo.spring.io artifact repository, but also to Maven Central.

The second milestone refines the work we've devlived in 7.0.0-M1, in particular arround our null safety support using JSpecify. Check the changelog for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.17 and 6.2.3 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.17 ships with 17 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.3.9.

Spring Framework 6.2.3 ships with 60 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.3 and 3.5.0-M2.

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Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do.

I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be sure to stop and say salut or hi!

We've got an amazing lineup for you this weekend, so let's dive right into it.

• How to create dynamic SQL queries with Spring Boot
• I love this article looking at the amazing new features in Spring Application Advisor
• a lovely video by the amazing Greg Turnquist: Using JdbcTemplate with CockroachDB
• Spring AI: a Doot to GenAI heaven for Java developers - yup!
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to "Just Use Postgres!" author Denis Magda
• I've got this queueud up: Spring AI Masterclass with Spring Boot..
• ..and this one: Spring AI with DeepSeek R1
• a gentle reminder that there are guides on …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Java and distributed database ninja Denis Magda about his new book, "Just Use Postgres!", which looks at how to wield Postgres for a variety of use cases that an application developer should know.

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

highlights

• (Spring Boot) Spring index cache optimizations leading to performance and memory improvements
• (Spring Boot) additional performance improvements while running Spring specific validations
• (Spring Boot) Boot LS JAR size decreased to 207Mb from 271Mb

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2025-03 milestone builds

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts…

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!
• …