Phil Webb

Phil Webb

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.

Recent Blog posts by Phil Webb

Spring Boot 1.1.2.RELEASE Available Now

Releases | June 24, 2014 | ...
The second maintenance release for Spring Boot 1.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and maven central. This release fixes a number of issues and also offers some performance improvements when running "executable JARs". For a complete list of changes see the issue tracker. (Windows users may want to use the Spring Boot 1.1.3.RELEASE as it fixes some Windows specific issues.) Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.1 GA Released

Releases | June 10, 2014 | ...
Spring Boot 1.1.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and maven central. This release will form part of the Spring IO Platform and offers a number of new features and improvements over 1.0. For upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes. NOTE: Please use v1.1.1 as there was a minor issue with the initial v1.1.0 release Here are some of the highlights: Templating Support Alongside the existing Thymeleaf and JSP support, Additional templating options have been added for Freemarker, Velocity and Groovy. Groovy templates are…

Spring Boot 1.1.0.M1 available now

Releases | May 14, 2014 | ...
The first milestone release for Spring Boot 1.1.0 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. Highlights include: Additional templating support. Improved metrics and health endpoints. Additional data integrations (including improved MongoDB support and support for GemFire). A host of minor improvements and additions. Updated dependencies for many third-party libraries. See the release notes for a complete list of new and noteworthy features. We'd appreciate any feedback from existing Spring Boot 1.0 users. If you are upgrading, be sure to follow the instructions from the release notes…

Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC5 Available Now

Releases | March 22, 2014 | ...
Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC5 has been released and is available in the repo.spring.io repository. This is mainly a bug fix release, although a couple of new features have been added: A new @IntegrationTest annotation has been added to help when writing integration tests for Spring Boot. The CRaSH shell now exposes an endpoint command that can be used to obtain actuator information. We now also have a fairly comprehensive reference manual. This is the last planned release candidate, so please give it a try and report any bugs. We plan to release GA very soon.

Spring Framework 4.0.2 & 3.2.8 Released

Releases | February 18, 2014 | ...
Spring Framework 4.0.2 and 3.2.8 have been released and are now available from Maven Central and repo.spring.io. We have brought forward both releases due to SPR-11376 which strengthens Spring OXM to protect against a XXE vulnerability. For a complete list of changes please refer to JIRA

Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC2 Released

Releases | February 12, 2014 | ...
The second release candidate for Spring Boot 1.0.0 has now been released and published to the Spring Maven Repository. UPDATE: We have released 1.0.0.RC3 earlier than expected to address an unfortunate regression with RC2. Please use RC3 in preference to RC2. This release incorporates over 40 improvements and fixes. If you are upgrading from RC1, you may need to change some of your import declarations as we have restructured a few packages with this release. As well as bug fixes, there are a couple of new noteworthy features: spring jar Users of the spring CLI application can now generate…

Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC1 Released

Releases | January 22, 2014 | ...
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring Boot v1.0.0. This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous milestone. Binaries have been published to the Spring Maven Repository, please take a look at the project page for download instructions and Maven/Gradle co-ordinates. Please raise an issue if you find any problems, or want to suggest some future improvements.

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