Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's August 5th! Which means we're only a few short weeks away until SpringOne 2025! Have you registered? There's so much to cover this week, so let's dive right into it!

• I love Spring Modulith and I love JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA! So imagine my joy to discover that the new IntelliJ IDEA release features support for Spring Modulith!
• Spring Cloud Oakwood has been released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Security lead and legend Rob Winch about the new and novel in Spring Security and what we're going to be talking about at SpringOne 2025! (Have you registered yet?)
• Spring Shell's been updated!
• Spring AI has been updated
• Spring gRPC 0.10.0 is available! This is another up-and-coming…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I am thrilled to talk to my longtime friend Andrew Lombardi about the latest-and-greatest, his new book Beginning Spring AI, and more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's August 5th! Which means we're only 20 days away until SpringOne 2025! Have you registered? There's so much to cover this week, so let's dive right into it!

• Spring Shell 3.4.1 is out! - the new release includes a number of bug fixes, dependency updates, and refinements of the documentation.
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Security lead about what to expect at SpringOne 2025, and looked ahead at the upcoming Spring Security 7.0 release.
• Spring Cloud 2025.1.0-M1 (aka Oakwood) has been released
• have you checked out the incredible new features in IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2? One of my favorite new features is that the IDE surfaces Spring Modulith validation front-and-center in the IDE itself! I've been waiting for this one for a while…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I'm joined by Spring Security lead Rob Winch to discuss the amazing new additions to Spring Security 7.0, coming in November of 2025, and the coverage you can expect when you see our talk at SpringOne 2025 (have you registered - https://springone.io ?)

It's the end of July! JULY! The seventh month of the year, done and dusted! AHHHHH! I've got memories of being on a tropical beach over the winter holidays, sipping rum and dodging mosquitoes like I was doing a rhythmic gymnastics routine just recently. It turns out that was seven months ago, not recently. Who did this to us? Why is it happening so quickly? And why am I wearing a jacket, and why do I have the windows closed here in San Francisco, right now, as I write this? NOBODY KNOWS. One thing's for sure, though: it's almost August, and August is springtime, as far as I'm concerned…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, recorded at Devoxx UK 2025, I talk to the legendary professor of computer science and legend José Paumard about Java, the ecosystem, and more,

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost SpringOne time!! AAAAH it's all moving so quickly! I can hardly stand it. SpringOne's next month, in lovely Las Vegas, and I'll be there. Will you? Have you registered?

We'll be looking at the impending Spring Boot 4.0 and Spring Framework 7.0 releases! It's going to be a ton of fun. Indeed, you'll notice that's a theme these days: tons of new projects in the milestones or early days stages of development, making their way down the winding road to GA, in time for Spring Boot 4.0 and Spring Framework 7.0. This is my favorite time: we should all be trying the bits…

Hi, Spring fans! In this edition, I had the pleasure of chatting with the brilliant Arjen Poutsma, our go-to API oracle.

If you’re curious about his fantastic insights, thoughts, and consultancy services, be sure to check out poutsma-principles.com

Hi, Spring fans! It's already the 15th of July! We're closer to 2026 than we are to 2024. And time's sure flying. Like I will, tomorrow. I'll be flying to Denver for the amazing UBERCONF software show! I'll be doing a workshop and two talks, and if you're there, I hope you'll come say "hi"!

Let's get into this week's roundup, because it's a doozy!

• this is technically from more than a week ago, but Spring gRPC 0.9.0 is available now!
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring team alumnus and API oracle Arjen Poutsma
• Spring Cloud 2024.0.2 (aka Moorgate) has been released
• An interesting article with a bold claim: Cron Jobs Are Dead: How I Used Temporal to Future-Proof My Spring Boot App. I haven't played too much with Temporal, but it looks like its solving an interesting problem - workflow orchestration - in an interesting way, and offers a good Spring Boot integration.
• I did a talk for Jetbrains with IntelliJ IDEA lead Aleksey Stukalov looking at a …

Hi, Spring fans! In this edition, I had the pleasure of chatting with the brilliant Arjen Poutsma, our go-to API oracle.

If you’re curious about his fantastic insights, thoughts, and consultancy services, be sure to check out poutsma-principles.com