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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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 is available now.
Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 includes 12 fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 later this week!
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 27 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.
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.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC2 is available now.
Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC2 includes 28 fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC1 later today!
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 31 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.
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.
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The Spring Team has been working on native image support for Spring Applications for quite some time. After 3+ years of incubation in the Spring Native experimental project with Spring Boot 2, native support is moving to General Availability with Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3!
Native images provide almost instant startup time and reduced memory consumption for Java applications. The recent Spring Boot 3.0.0-M5 release marks the first time we’re asking for broader community feedback on our native story. If you need to catch-up on the basics, please refer to the Ahead Of Time basics blog post from late March. You can also learn how to prepare your applications for Spring Boot 3.0…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M6 and 5.3.23 are available now.
Spring Framework 5.3.23 includes 32 fixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios.
Spring Framework 6.0.0-M6 includes 123 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch. This milestone wraps up most of our AOT efforts, in preparation for our release candidate phase. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-M5 next week!
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 40 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.
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.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 48 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.
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.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5 and 5.3.22 are available now.
Spring Framework 5.3.22 includes 45 fixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios.
Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5 includes 85 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch.
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.21 is available now.
Spring Framework 5.3.21 includes 22 fixes and improvements.
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