Phil Webb

Phil Webb

Spring Framework commiter | San Francisco

Phil Webb is a Spring Framework developer and co-creator of the Spring Boot project. Prior to joining Pivotal and relocating to California, Phil worked for a number of UK technology companies.

Blog posts by Phil Webb

Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC2 available now

Releases | November 03, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 69 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This release attempts to fix a few issues that were found with RC1. Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter

Spring Boot 2.5.15 and 2.6.15 available now, fixing CVE-2023-20883

Releases | May 18, 2023 | ...

I happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.15 and 2.6.15 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

This release follows a request from a customer with commercial support that was looking to have the ability to upgrade to later versions of SnakeYAML.

This release also includes fixes for CVE-2023-20883: Spring Boot Welcome Page DoS Vulnerability as well as CVE-2023-20873: Security Bypass With Wildcard Pattern Matching on Cloud Foundry.

If you're interested in purchasing commercial support for Spring, please see https://spring.io/support.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter

Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC2 available now

Releases | May 05, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 58 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable refinements include:

  • More service connections for both Docker Compose and Testcontainers
  • Support for @ImportTestcontainers and dynamic properties
  • SSL configuration support for Redis and Elasticsearch

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have…

Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC1 available now

Releases | April 22, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 112 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Improved Testcontainers support including support at development time
  • Support for Docker Compose
  • SSL Configuration enhancements
  • Improvements for Docker Image Building

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed…

Spring Boot 3.1.0-M1 available now

Releases | February 24, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 105 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Different log levels for file and console
  • Maximum HTTP Response Header Size
  • Many dependency upgrades

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter

Spring Boot 3.0.2 available now

Releases | January 19, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 66 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow |

Spring Boot 3.0.1 available now

Releases | December 22, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 54 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow |

Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 available now

Releases | November 10, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 116 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This is the second release candidate and so doesn't include much in the way of new features. It does, however, bring a migration to Jakarta EE 10 APIs and a few changes to /actuator endpoints. Our final release is scheduled for November 24, 2022 so this is your last chance to provide feedback or raise issues for…

Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC1 available now

Releases | October 20, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 135 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This is our first release candidate for Spring Boot 3.0, which we expect to release November 24, 2022. We are not expecting any more features to be added at this point, and we will only be making API changes if we find issues.

This release is the culmination of 11 months of work and is the first release to fully…

Preparing for Spring Boot 3.0

Engineering | May 24, 2022 | ...

Spring Boot 2.0 was the first release in the 2.x line and was published on Feburary 28th 2018. We’ve just released Spring Boot 2.7 which means that, so far, we’ve been maintaining the 2.x line for just over 4 years. In total we’ve published 95 distinct releases over that timeframe!

The entire Spring team, and many in our community of contributors, are now preparing for the next generation of Spring. We are planning to release Spring Boot 3.0 in November 2022. This next major revision will be based on Spring Framework 6.0 and will require Java 17 or above. It will also be the first version of Spring Boot that makes use of Jakarta EE 9 APIs (jakarta.*) instead of EE 8 (javax.*

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