Scott Frederick

Scott Frederick

Spring Boot and Spring Cloud committer | Dallas/Fort Worth TX

Blog posts by Scott Frederick

Spring Boot 2.7.7 available now

Releases | December 22, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 24 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-M5 available now

Releases | September 22, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-M5 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 153 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Improved Ahead-of-Time (AOT) processing and native image support
  • Improved actuator endpoints sanitization
  • Jersey support re-instated

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

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

Spring Boot 3.0.0-M3 available now

Releases | May 19, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 74 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

  • Auto-configuration for Micrometer Observation, Tracing, and OtlpMeterRegistry
  • Reinstated Support for REST Assured and Pooled JMS

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?

Spring Boot 2.7.0-M1 is now available

Releases | January 20, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 111 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

  • Spring GraphQL starter
  • Operating system and Java vendor information in actuator info endpoint
  • Support for RabbitStreamTemplate

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 2.6.2 available now

Releases | December 21, 2021 | ...

Update Jan 5: 2022: The Spring Framework version in this release includes fixes for CVE-2021-22060 whose official publication was deferred until today since many people take time off at the end of the year.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 55 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

Spring Boot 2.6.0-RC1 is available now

Releases | October 21, 2021 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 85 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. New and Noteworthy features in this release include:

  • Java runtime information is optionally available in the /actuator/info endpoint
  • Support has been added for Log4j2 composite configurations
  • Additional configuration options have been added for buildpacks
  • SameSite cookie attributes are now supported with the servlet stack

For a complete list of the updates along with upgrading instructions, please take a look at the release notes

Spring Boot 2.3.8 available now

Releases | January 14, 2021 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 35 bug fixes 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 2.4.0-RC1 available now

Releases | October 30, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first release candidate of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 108 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this release include:

  • Rationalization of configuration properties for Spring MVC servlet and Spring WebFlux reactive stacks,
  • Refinements to the new config file processing, including the ability to load from config trees with a wildcard,
  • Upgrades to the recently released Spring Framework 5.3 and Spring Data 2020.0 release train,
  • Numerous other dependency upgrades,

Spring Boot 2.3.5 available now

Releases | October 29, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 92 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 2.4.0-M4 available now

Releases | October 15, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the fourth milestone of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 145 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this milestone include:

  • Failure Analyzer improvements
  • Ability to publish Docker images generated by the Maven and Gradle plugins
  • Redis cache metrics exposed via Micrometer
  • Numerous dependency upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.4 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation

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