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 2.6.5 available now

Releases | March 24, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 66 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…

Initial AOT support in Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3

Engineering | March 22, 2022 | ...

Those of you who know the Spring Native experimental project are aware that the Spring team has been working on native image support for Spring applications since 2019. After a first beta in March 2021, we shipped an extensive revision of our Spring Native efforts in December 2021. We’ve also announced at SpringOne last year that we intend to promote this work to Spring Framework 6.0 proper in the course of 2022. Following the release of our third milestone, this blog post walks you through what has been included already and what is coming next. Ahead-Of-Time Processing Processing the…

Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 and 5.3.17 available now

Releases | March 17, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 and 5.3.17 are available now. Spring Framework 5.3.17 includes 17 fixes and improvements as well as a fix for CVE-2022-22950: Spring Expression DoS Vulnerability and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios. Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 includes 33 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch. This milestone brings a first batch of migration of our AOT (Ahead Of Time) efforts from Spring Native, paving the way for Native support in the wider Spring…

Spring Boot 2.6.4 available now

Releases | February 24, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 61 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…

Spring Framework 5.3.16 available now

Releases | February 17, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.16 is available now. Spring Framework 5.3.16 includes 33 fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases next week. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Initializr 0.12.0 available now

Releases | January 24, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.12.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 10 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

Spring Boot 2.5.9 available now

Releases | January 20, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 32 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…

Spring Framework 6.0.0-M2 and 5.3.15 available now

Releases | January 13, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M2 and 5.3.15 are available now. Spring Framework 5.3.15 includes 17 fixes and improvements as a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios. Spring Framework 6.0.0-M2 includes 6 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-M1 next week! Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Native 0.11.1 available now

Releases | December 22, 2021 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Native 0.11.1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/release. This release includes 13 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 2.5.8 available now

Releases | December 21, 2021 | ...

Update Jan 5: 2022: The Spring Framework version in this release includes fixes for CVE-2021-22060 whose official publication was deferred until today since many people take time off at the end of the year. On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 46 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…