Hi, Spring fans, and happy new year! It's been another super seven days since we last spoke and, as always, there's a lot to cover so let's dive right into it! A long time in coming, but it's finally here! Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring the Spring AI hits just keep on coming! Spring AI MCP 0.4.0 (Milestone) Released In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to legendary technologist Dez Blanchfield Our very own Michelle Sebek has a nice blog on letting Tanzu, a cloud platform from Broadcom, the company where a good many of the Spring teanm work, do…

Hi, Spring fans! Happy happy = new Year(2025)! It's a new year and a new opportunity! In this episode I talk to my friend and legendary technologist Dez Blanchfield!

Hi Spring fans! Happy New Year! And welcome to another installment of This Year in Spring! The year that was... I write this edition from a desk overlooking the beautiful jungle of Martinique, a beautiful island nation in the French Caribbean. I’m sipping some rhum martinique, enjoying the semi-sweltering heat, and thinking about the year that's been 2024. Every year at this time, since 2011, I write this year in spring, an abbreviated look at the year from the rearview mirror. So many amazing things happened this year. It’s sort of difficult to put my finger on any one thing. But, I shall try…

Hi, Spring fans! (and happy holidays!) in this installment I talk to Intact's Luke Shannon about their use of Spring, developer portals, and so much more.

This Week in Spring - December 17th, 2024 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! It's the 17th of December, 2024! And you know what means? The end of the year is nearly upon us! I can't believe it. It's been a very long year indeed, but I'm happy to get on board a flight bound for San Francisco soon and wind down my year in the company of friends and family. I hope you will too. Let's dive right into this week's roundup! Spring Data 2024.1.1 and 2024.0.7 released the amazing K. Siva Prasad Reddy (SivaLabs) on A Bootiful Podcast Spring Framework 6.1.16 and 6.2.…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment I talk to industry legend K. Siva Prasad Reddy (@sivalabs). You've probably read one of his blogs. I know I have!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in the southern hemisphere (it's summer down here!), in Brisbane, waiting to board a plane for Sydney. It's been a ton of fun! I did a video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Framework 6.2 - check it out! I did another video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Data 2024.1 in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Spring Security lead Rob Winch to learn more about Spring AI's new audio features, check out this blog by Christian Tzolov Spring Tools 4.27.0 has been…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll talk to the amazing Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security 6.4, about the jam-packed new release! #spring #springboot #security #java

Hi, Spring fans! Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Holidays, or simply a convivial Tuesday in December to you! We've got a ton of cool stuff to dive into so let's get goin'! Spring AI 1.0.0 M5 Released Spring AI MCP 0.2.0 (Milestone) Released Spring Modulith 1.3.1, 1.2.7, and 1.1.12 Released Spring Boot 3.4.1 Available Now Spring Boot 3.3.7 Available Now Spring Batch 5.1.3 and 5.2.1 Available Now Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.7 and 1.2.1 Are Now Available Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.1 and 3.2.6 Are Available Now Another delightful installment of the Spring News Roundup over…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the first week of December and I am in the amazing city of Perth, Australia. Perth, for those of you who don't know, is amazing. And well worth the journey. But it is quite the journey! 27 hours, door-to-door, from San Francisco to Perth! Insanity. I'm super happy to be here, though, talking to amazing folks before I begin my journey from Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia for the epic YOW! conference. It's going to be a ton of fun. I love this InfoQ interview with Spring Framework lead Jürgen Hoeller and…