Moritz Halbritter

Moritz Halbritter

Working in software development since 2011 and being an open source enthusiast forever, Moritz joined the Spring team in early 2022. Currently he is working on Spring Boot and is the team lead for start.spring.io and Spring Initializr.

Recent Blog posts by Moritz Halbritter

Spring Boot 3.1.9 available now

Releases | February 22, 2024 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 46 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…

Spring Boot 3.1.8 available now

Releases | January 19, 2024 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 29 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…

Spring Boot 3.0.13 available now

Releases | November 23, 2023 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 62 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…

Spring Boot 3.2.0 available now

Releases | November 23, 2023 | ...
On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes. What's new in 3.2 The highlights of the 3.2 release include: Support for Virtual Threads Initial support for JVM Checkpoint Restore (Project CRaC) SSL Bundle Reloading A lot of Observability Improvements Support for RestClient Support for JdbcClient Support for…

SSL hot reload in Spring Boot 3.2.0

Engineering | November 07, 2023 | ...
In Spring Boot 3.2.0, we're adding the ability for embedded web servers to hot-reload SSL certificates and keys. That means you can rotate your SSL trust material without restarting your application. Hot reloading is supported for Tomcat and Netty embedded web servers. Let's see that in action! First, we're going to create our SSL private key and matching certificate using OpenSSL: This creates a private key stored in certs/demo.key and a matching (self-signed) certificate with the common name "demo-cert-1" in certs/demo.crt. Now we're creating a new Spring Boot 3.2.0 application, using the…

Spring Boot 3.0.12 available now

Releases | October 19, 2023 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 48 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…

Spring Boot 3.1.5 available now

Releases | October 19, 2023 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 62 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…

Spring Boot 2.7.16 available now

Releases | September 21, 2023 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.16 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…

Spring Boot 3.0.11 available now

Releases | September 21, 2023 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 40 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…

Spring Boot 3.1.4 available now

Releases | September 21, 2023 | ...
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 50 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…

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