Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to my friend Francesco Ciulla about the art of developer advocacy and more. Francesco Ciulla is the Head of DevRel Engineering at zerops.io.

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the wide and wonderful world of Spring, as usual, and there's a good amount to get to, fresh off the recent Spring Boot 4.1 generation release train, so let's dive right into it! I wrote a blog post looking at Spring Batch, MongoDB, and Spring Boot 4.1. Spring AI lead Christian Tsolov wrote a nice post detailing the new tool calling API in Spring AI 2.0. In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to my friend DaShaun Carter about the latest in the new Spring Boot 4.1 releases. Another great Spring AI recipe from Craig Walls, this…

Spring Batch was introduced many years before MongoDB existed, and its design assumed the presence of a SQL database in which to store the state of Spring Batch jobs. But that was decades ago, and a common question for anyone new to Spring Batch was, "Why does this thing need to talk to a SQL database?" The answer, of course, was that Spring Batch keeps a meticulous record of every job, step, and execution in a JobRepository, and for years that repository spoke one dialect: SQL. If you were happily living in MongoDB-land, you still had to drag a Postgres or MySQL instance along just so Batch…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege to sit down with my friend DaShaun Carter to talk about patching, Spring Boot 4.1, and security in the world of AI.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the oh-so-delightful (and delicious!) city of New Delhi, India. It's been a real privilege to come and visit so many amazing people. Last night my friend DaShaun and I presented here at the local Delhi JUG, too. Amazing. Tonight we're off to magnificent Mumbai! It's been an insane week! First, you might remember that way back on May 11th, Spring manager Michael Minella posted that the normally scheduled May release train would be delayed, and on June 1st he detailed why: AI-driven CVEs. LOTS of CVEs…

Hi Spring and security fans! I got the legendary Spring Security lead Rob Winch to answers some of my burning security questions for us! Also: make sure you're downloading all the updates for the new Spring releases this week, the week of June 11th, 2026! (or later)

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Tons of releases coming out today and this week! So make sure you're pulling in the latest posts, as often as possible! Spring LDAP 2026.06 Releases - Contains CVE Fix Spring Framework 7.0.8 and 6.2.19 Available Now Spring HATEOAS 3.1 GA, 3.0.7, and 2.5.3 released Spring Retry 2.0.13 available now Spring AI RC1 is available now. This release includes a well overhauled tool calling approach, chat memory improvements, structured output enhancements, and so much more! as part of these new releases, you may have noticed, we've…

hi Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! In this installment I talk to my friend and JetBrains Developer Advocate extraordinaire Marit van Dijk! This episode was recorded at JNation, an amazing show in Coimbra, Portugal! #jetbrains #java #jnation

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another momentous installment of This Week in Spring! A lot to get into this week, but let's first take some time to address the meta: where are the May releases? If you read our May 11th post, you know they've been delayed. We wanted to speak a bit more about why in this important post titled Spring and Security in the Times of AI. Here's the TL;DR taken from the post directly (that is, I didn't even write the TL;DR, heh): "TL;DR: As previously mentioned, the May Spring release train has been moved and condensed to June 8-14. The majority of projects within the…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend from JClarity and Microsoft fame, fellow Java champion, and Java guru Martijn Verburg #ai #microsoft #java #jclarity #performance