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 2.1.16 available now

Releases | July 24, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.16 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 21 bug fixes, enhancements, 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

Spring Boot 2.2.9 available now

Releases | July 24, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.9 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 40 bug fixes, enhancements, 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

Spring Initializr 0.9.0 available now

Releases | July 15, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.9.0 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 34 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | Gitter

Building web applications with Spring Boot and Vaadin

Engineering | July 14, 2020 | ...

This post is a guest post by community member Marcus Hellberg (@marcushellberg). Marcus is the head of the Community team at Vaadin. He likes helping developers discover and learn modern web technologies by creating online content and speaking with developers at events.

Building web apps can be a daunting task. There are many moving parts: you need to define the structure in HTML and then use CSS to make it look the way you want. For frontend apps, you also need to write the app logic in JavaScript and connect it to your backend over REST. And of course, you also need to implement the…

Spring Boot 2.1.15 available now

Releases | June 11, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.15 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 25 bug fixes, enhancements, 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

Spring Boot 2.2.8 available now

Releases | June 11, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.8 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 54 bug fixes, enhancements, 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

Spring Framework 5.2.7 and 5.1.16 available now

Releases | June 09, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.2.7 and 5.1.16 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.2.7 includes over 44 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.16 includes 17 selected fixes and improvements.

As usual, we'll follow up shortly with corresponding Spring Boot releases (2.3.1, 2.2.8 and 2.1.15).

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 2.3.0 available now

Releases | May 15, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and 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 2.3

Dependency upgrades

Spring Boot 2.3 moves to new versions of several Spring projects:

  • Spring Data Neumann
  • Spring HATEOAS 1.1
  • Spring Integration 5.3
  • Spring Kafka 2.5
  • Spring Security 5.3
  • Spring Session Dragonfruit

We’ve…

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