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.

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Recent Blog posts by Stéphane Nicoll

Spring Boot 2.0.0 M1 Available Now

Releases | May 16, 2017 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Boot 2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 300 issues and pull requests! This first milestone builds on and requires Spring Framework 5.0.RC1. There are a number of nice refinements in Spring Framework 5 including extensive support for building reactive applications. Highlights of this first milestone include: A complete rewrite of the Gradle plugin (including a dedicated guide) Support of reactive web applications development…

Spring Boot 1.5.3 Available Now

Releases | April 21, 2017 | ...

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.3 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. Spring Boot 1.5.3 adds over 60 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates to the 70 issues fixed in Spring Boot 1.4.6. Thanks to all that have contributed! What's next? The first release candidate of Spring Framework 5 is really around the corner now. We intend to release a first milestone of Spring Boot 2 the week after with support for Spring WebFlux, the new Gradle plugin and more! If you want to try those now, and we’d love to hear your feedback if…

Spring Boot 1.4.6 Available Now

Releases | April 20, 2017 | ...

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.6 is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. Spring Boot 1.4.6 includes 70 fixes and a selection of improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all that have contributed! 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. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | Gitter

Spring Framework 4.3.8 released

Releases | April 18, 2017 | ...

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.8 is available now. This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.6 and 1.5.3 maintenance releases and includes 40 fixes and selected improvements. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.4.5 and 1.5.2 Available Now

Releases | March 03, 2017 | ...

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.5 and 1.5.2 have been released and are available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. Spring Boot 1.4.5 includes 50 fixes and a selection of improvements and dependency upgrades. The second (first, really!) maintenance release of the 1.5 line contains over 60 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed! What's next? The team is now working full speed on Spring Boot 2: a first milestone, including the first release candidate of Spring Framework 5, is expected early April. There are quite a…

Spring Framework 4.3.7 released

Releases | March 01, 2017 | ...

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.7 has been released. This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.5 and 1.5.2 releases and includes over 20 fixes and selected improvements. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.4.4 Available Now

Releases | January 26, 2017 | ...

I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.4 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. Spring Boot 1.4.4 includes over 60 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates! Thanks to all that have contributed! 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 at stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Framework 4.3.6 available now

Releases | January 25, 2017 | ...

On behalf of the team, I am happy to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.6 is available now. This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.4 and 1.5.0 releases and includes over 60 fixes and selected improvements. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Framework 4.3.5, 4.2.9 and 3.2.18 available now

Releases | December 21, 2016 | ...

It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Framework 4.3.5, 4.2.9 and 3.2.18 maintenance releases are available now. 4.3.5 is a significant refinement release with 37 enhancements (including e.g. WebSocket support for the recently released Jetty 9.4) and several bug fixes, serving as the basis for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.3 release. Please note that the 4.2.9 and 3.2.18 bug fix releases are the last in their respective line, with 4.2.x being superseded by 4.3.x now and 3.2.x reaching its EOL point. Going forward, we expect all users to upgrade to 4.3.5+ for further support. All three…

Vaadin Spring 1.1 - build web UIs that hook right to your Java backend

Engineering | November 15, 2016 | ...

This post is a guest post by community member Matti Tahvonen (@MattiTahvonen), who works as a developer advocate in Vaadin Ltd, the company that originally developed Vaadin Framework and provides commercial services and extensions for it. The first stable release of the official Spring integration library for Vaadin was released a bit over a year ago. The feedback has been great and many Spring developers, who have wanted to stay on the safe “backend side”, have discovered a new way to use their existing Java skills to build good-looking web UIs. Using Vaadin Spring, your UI code lives in…