TL;DR; The Spring portfolio will begin releasing its milestones and release candidates to Maven Central starting with the releases related to the major versions due out in November.

As we enter the new year, we look forward to many new opportunities for the Spring ecosystem. We see JDK 25 coming in the fall. We see both minor versions of the entire portfolio and a new major version coming out this year with a long list of new capabilities. And we see Spring AI going GA ushering in a new class of workloads for enterprise applications, bringing agentic AI to the enterprise through programming…

Last month, the team delivered a release train that includes Spring Framework 6.2 (the final minor version for the Spring Framework 6.x line), Spring Boot 3.4, and a round of minor version updates across the portfolio, this is a time to celebrate the new capabilities that have been added, as well as clarify the long term support arrangement for the portfolio.

New Capabilities Abound

Below is just a small sampling of the new and exciting capabilities included in the November releases of the Spring portfolio. We encourage you to check out the release notes for your favorite projects for further…

Upgrading takes time. We understand that. Spring Boot 3 came out in November of 2022 bringing with it a new, modernized baseline of Java 17 and the migration from Java EE to Jakarta EE. It included over 55 managed dependency updates. Native compilation via GraalVM was a first-class option across the portfolio and observability out of the box was a core capability of all Spring projects. However, it wasn't until Spring Boot 3.2 where we began to see that the community's adoption of Spring Boot 3 surpassing that of Spring Boot 2's adoption. Spring Boot 3 has quickly overtaken Spring Boot 2 but…

TL;DR; Download the State of Spring Survey 2024 report here!

We asked...and you answered. The State of Spring Survey 2024 walks through all of the latest trends in the Java and Spring ecosystems. Responded to by over 1400 respondents, we asked about virtual threads, testcontainers, and native compilation with GraalVM. You told us about Kubernetes, generative AI, and upgrade practices in your enterprise. The State of Spring Survey 2024 was the most comprehensive survey we have ever put out and we are pleased to be able to share the results with our community.

The report, available now at https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/state-of-spring-2024…

We’re excited to share some great news! Spring Academy Pro will no longer require a paid subscription. It will be available here to everyone who registers a work, vocational, or educational email address.

What is Spring Academy?

Spring Academy is a comprehensive online learning platform for Spring developers. Created by the stewards of the Spring portfolio, Spring Academy courses ensure that you learn the most accurate and up-to-date information, with a hands-on learning experience that allows you to apply what you've learned and gain the skills necessary to create robust, scalable, and…

We are excited to announce the State of Spring Survey! Make sure your voice is heard by heading over to https://spring.io/survey and give us your feedback!

Are you excited to use virtual threads? Is AI all hype or is it game changing? What would you change about Spring if you could? (You can, by the way.)

The State of Spring survey is back! Last time we learned that 90% of respondents were looking forward to virtual threads through Project Loom. We learned that building APIs was still the main use case for Spring applications, with plain JSON over HTTP as the number one type of API. We also…

In November of last year, the team released major versions across the Spring portfolio, shepherding in a new foundation for enterprise application development on the JVM for the next decade. With that round of major versions, the Java baseline for the projects was increased from Java 8 to Java 17 as well as the migration from Java EE to Jakarta EE. Beyond the new baseline, we introduced new native compilation capabilities via GraalVM as well as improved observability across the portfolio. We realize that, while we put a lot of work into making the upgrade as seamless as we possibly can within…

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

In October 2020, we announced some permissions changes to our Artifactory instance to restrict anonymous access to the platform for third-party dependencies.

At that time, we asked the Community to source Spring releases from Maven Central. Today, we are announcing some changes to our infrastructure in alignment with that request so that we can better position repo…

Here are the results of the survey (which is now closed): https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/the-state-of-spring-2022. Thank you for your participation.

The State of Spring survey is here! Please give us your feedback by going to spring.io/survey. Spread the word by sharing these posts on Twitter, LinkedIn, and any other social platform you use!

Spring fans, our annual survey of the Spring community is back! Last year, we dived into the biggest projects and the most popular app patterns built with Spring, and a whole lot more! You told us your views about Spring Native, Data, and what…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.3.0-M1 is now available on Github and the Spring download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's New?

Spring Cloud Task 2.3.0-M1 is intended to be the version of the framework aligned with Spring Boot 2.3. Updates from 2.2.x include:

• Updates to all dependencies.
• Support for specifying a PlatformTransactionManager to be used by Spring Cloud Task.
• A starter for singl-step Spring Batch jobs.

Let's walk through these updates in more detail.

Update to All Dependencies

As stated earlier, this is first…