Stéphane Nicoll

Stéphane Nicoll

Stéphane is an experienced software engineer and open source contributor with a strong focus on Java enterprise development, software architecture, and technical leadership. Over the years, he has contributed to and led a wide range of initiatives, including the development of critical infrastructure in logistics and geospatial systems, as well as the design of enterprise frameworks widely adopted across the industry.

Stéphane is a core contributor to the Spring Framework and Spring Boot open source projects, and previously led Spring Initializr and start.spring.io, supporting developers worldwide in getting started with Spring. As a former member of the Apache Maven PMC, he has been actively involved in open source software governance and evolution for two decades.

As a member of the Spring team, Stéphane has had the privilege of working on various aspects of Spring Boot and Spring Framework, with a focus on understanding its inner workings and collaborating with the fantastic community of contributors.

Connect with Stéphane ("snicoll") on Bsky, Mastodon, and GitHub to follow his ongoing journey in the world of Java development.

Recent Blog posts by Stéphane Nicoll

Spring Boot 2.4.1 available now

Releases | December 11, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 59 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 2.2.12 available now

Releases | December 10, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 51 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 Framework 5.3.2, 5.2.12, 5.1.20, 5.0.20, and 4.3.30 available now

Releases | December 09, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a full round of Spring Framework releases.

Spring Framework 5.3.2 includes 54 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.12 includes 18 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.20 includes 14 selected fixes and improvements.

The last maintenance releases for 5.0.x (5.0.20) and 4.3.x (4.3.30) with 12 selected fixes and improvements and 8 selected fixes and improvements respectively are also available today.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases 2.2.12, 2.3.7, and 2.4.1!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues |

Spring Boot 2.3.6 available now

Releases | November 13, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 30 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 2.1.18 available now

Releases | October 29, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.18 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 20 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

As mentioned in the announcement last year, this is the last release in the 2.1 line. Please consider upgrading to Spring Boot 2.3.x if you haven’t already done so.

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 2.2.11 available now

Releases | October 29, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.11 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 | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow |

Spring Framework 5.2.10 and 5.1.19 available now

Releases | October 27, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.2.10 and 5.1.19 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.2.10 includes 27 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.19 includes 16 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for Spring Framework 5.3 GA and follow-up Spring Boot releases 2.1.18, 2.2.11, 2.3.5, and 2.4.0-RC1!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Framework 5.3.0-RC2 available now

Releases | October 13, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate of Spring Framework 5.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

Spring Framework 5.3.0-RC2 includes 38 fixes and improvements and is our last stop before GA proper scheduled 2 weeks from now.

Next up is Spring Boot 2.4.0-M4, stay tuned!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Framework 5.2.9, 5.1.18, 5.0.19, and 4.3.29 available now

Releases | September 15, 2020 | ...

Updated on 2020-09-17 to add links to CVE-2020-5421 and the corresponding Spring Boot releases.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a full round of Spring Framework releases.

Spring Framework 5.2.9 includes 42 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.18 includes 16 selected fixes and improvements.

Maintenance releases for 5.0.x (5.0.19) and 4.3.x (4.3.29) with 13 selected fixes and improvements and 9 selected fixes and improvements respectively are also available today.

All of the releases include a fix for CVE-2020-5421.

Stay tuned for the release candidate of Spring Framework 5.3 and follow-up Spring Boot releases 2.1.17, 2.2.10, and 2.3.4

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