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 Framework 4.3.4 available now

Releases | November 08, 2016 | ...
It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.4 is available now. This maintenance release includes over 50 fixes and selected improvements, in particular user-requested configuration and runtime refinements. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.4.2 Available Now

Releases | November 08, 2016 | ...
It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.2 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. Spring Boot 1.4.2 includes over 100 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 Boot 1.4.1 and 1.3.8 Available Now

Releases | September 21, 2016 | ...
It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.1 and 1.3.8 haven been released and are available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. Spring Boot 1.3.8 includes 35 fixes and a selection of improvements and dependency upgrades. The first maintenance release of the 1.4 line contains over 150 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates! Thanks to all that have contributed! What's new? We snuck in a few major improvements such as a new FailureAnalyzer for NoSuchBeanDefinitionException. If your code expects a bean to be present (typically via auto-configuration), you should now…

Spring Framework 4.3.3 and 4.2.8 available now

Releases | September 19, 2016 | ...
On behalf of the team, I am happy to announce that the Spring Framework 4.3.3 and 4.2.8 maintenance releases are available now. This third maintenance release of the 4.3 line contains over 60 fixes and improvements and is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.1 release later this week. We'll also release another Spring Framework 5.0 milestone Wednesday so stay tuned for more release announcements! Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Custom test slice with Spring Boot 1.4

Engineering | August 30, 2016 | ...
Spring Boot 1.4 includes a major overhaul of testing support and one of these features is test slicing. I'd like to take the opportunity in this blog post to further explain what it is and how you can easily create your own slices. Test slicing is about segmenting the ApplicationContext that is created for your test. Typically, if you want to test a controller using MockMvc, surely you don't want to bother with the data layer. Instead you'd probably want to mock the service that your controller uses and validate that all the web-related interaction works as expected. This can be summarized in…

Spring Boot 1.3.7 available now

Releases | July 28, 2016 | ...
It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.3.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and 3rd party dependency updates. Stay tuned for more release announcement with Spring Boot 1.4.0.RELEASE coming up next! Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.4.0.RC1 available now

Releases | July 05, 2016 | ...
It is my pleasure to announce that the release candidate of Spring Boot 1.4 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This milestone concludes 6 months of work in the 1.4 line, closing over 140 issues and pull requests! Thanks to everyone that has contributed. Highlights of the new release include: Unified @EntityScan for JPA, MongoDB, Neo4j, Couchbase and Cassandra Auto-configured RestTemplateBuilder Support for pure rest client tests via @RestClientTest Support for Jest (Elasticsearch rest client) Upgrades to Spring Integration 4.3, Spring AMQP 1.6, Spring REST Docs 1.1, MongoDB…

Spring Framework 4.3.1 and 4.2.7 available now

Releases | July 04, 2016 | ...
It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Framework 4.3.1 and 4.2.7 maintenance releases are available now. The first maintenance release of the 4.3 line contains 40 fixes and improvements and is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4 release. The master branch has now switched to 5.0 and we'll start merging 5.0 features in preparation for 5.0.0.M1 later this month. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation For more details about Spring Framework 4.3, check Juergen Hoeller's session at SpringOne Platform, which is taking place in Las Vegas between August 1-4 this year. There are…

Spring Boot 1.3.6 available now

Releases | July 04, 2016 | ...
Right after Spring Framework 4.2.7, Spring Boot 1.3.6 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and 3rd party dependency updates. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 1.3.5 released

Releases | May 10, 2016 | ...
Shortly after 1.3.4, we've just released Spring Boot 1.3.5 as we've identified a rather nasty regression with the Spring Integration auto-configuration. The bits are available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central, as usual. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

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