In this episode, I talk with Mark Thomas, the legendary and highly prolific committer to Apache Tomcat. Happy New Year!

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it? It's already the 30th of December! I celebrated Christmas with my family in Los Angeles, then we jumped on a flight headed for Southeast Asia to ring in the New Year with more friends and family. I'm sitting at a café in the sweltering city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as I write this - looking back fondly at the last week of, and the entire year of, 2025.

That's right! It's time for my yearly tradition of retroactive year-end navel‑gazing and analysis; it's time for This Year in Spring, where we review the good, the great, and the amazing: the top five best…

Hi Spring fans, and happy holidays! I'm delighted to be joined again on this episode by my friend and fellow harbinger of doom (in the best possible way), Nate Schutta — co-author of the wonderful book Foundations of Software Engineering!

Happy holidays, everyone! The year may be winding down, but the Spring ecosystem continues unabated. We’re now a few weeks past the generational Spring Boot 4.0 release in November, and there have been tons of releases (and patches) since then. There’s also equal excitement reflected in posts from the community, so we’ve got a lot to dig into this week. So, without further ado…

• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the legendary Spring cofounder Juergen Hoeller
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/18/a-bootiful-podcast-juergen-hoeller
• Next-level Kotlin support in Spring Boot 4
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/18/next-level-kotlin-support-in-spring-boot-4
• Spring Shell 4.0.0-RC1 available now
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/19/spring-shell-4-0-0-rc1-released
• Spring Modulith 2.0.1, 1.4.6, and 1.3.12 released
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/20/spring-modulith-2-0-1-1-4-6-and-1-3-12-released
• Spring Tools 5 released
  …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary cofounder of Spring itself, Juergen Hoeller, about the awesome new Spring Framework 7 release.

Happy holidays, one and all!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it’s been! We’ve got around nine shopping days ’til Christmas, and the New Year is almost here! Things are moving so quickly and the Spring community is no exception! Let's dive into this week's wonderful roundup!

• This is a super interesting application of a design pattern with Spring AI’s dynamic tool selection, described by Christian Tzolov.
• Spring Tools 5.0 released.
• Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is out!
• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring legend Rossen Stoyanchev about API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more.
• Spring AI 2.0.0-M1 available now.
• Spring Framework 7.0.2 available now.
• Spring Framework 6.2.15 available now.
• Spring for GraphQL 1.3.7, 1.4.4, and 2.0.1 released.
• Spring Web Services 4.0.17 available now.
• Spring Security 2025-12 released…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment I talk to the legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in lovely New Jersey, the Garden State, as I write this and I spent most of the last week in New Orleans. It's been a busy week in the Spring community and beyond and so you know what that means? There's a ton of stuff to look into! Let's dive right into it!

• Spring gRPC 1.0.0 is now GA! Huzzah! Hooray!
• Want to learn more about the new release direct from the Spring team? Join them, live, for this webinar on the 11th.
• Good news, everybody, Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is available now!.
• Spring AI 1.1.1 is available now.
• I really enjoyed this discussion with fellow Spring Developer Advocate Dan Vega on his new book The Fundamentals of Software Engineering, and you can too.
• Did you see this amazing Kotlin DSL for HTMX, called KHTMX?
• Speaking of Kotlin, have you started your journey with this amazing language? Check out this guide on the Spring portal.
• While not strictly speaking related to Spring, I think this article on Idempotency Keys - a very useful design philosophy and pattern - by fellow Java Champion Gunnar Morling is well-worth a read if you care about building reliable distributed systems architectures…

Hi, Spring fans! I'm so excited to chat with fellow Spring developer advocate Dan Vega about his new book, Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. By mistake, I inadvertently published older content in this installment, then tried to fix it and ended up re-publishing the same content. And, what's worse, I somehow ended up deleting the draft I had written for this installment — the one I intended to copy in to override the bad content. Ugh. A comedy of errors. Anyway, this is a lesson in why you should make sure you get enough sleep. And this is why I am now re-writing the same content again!

So, without any further ado, here finally is this week's roundup!

• this is an exciting look at the next generation of the Spring Tools projects
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring and Java community legend Simon Martinelli
• Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 has been released
• even more awesome stuff on the Spring Data AOT repository support
• I love this article from Spring Modulith founder Oliver Drotbohm on rethinking Spring Application Integration Testing
• How cool is this? Spring AI is at AWS re:Invent!
• want to learn more about the amazing new stuff in Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4?…