Moritz Halbritter

Moritz Halbritter

Working in software development since 2011 and being an open source enthusiast forever, Moritz joined the Spring team in early 2022. Currently he is working on Spring Boot and is the team lead for start.spring.io and Spring Initializr.

Blog posts by Moritz Halbritter

Spring Boot 3.4.12 available now

Releases | November 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 45 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot

Engineering | November 18, 2025 | ...

This is a new blog post in the Road to GA series, and this time we're taking a look at OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot.

Introduction

In modern cloud native architectures, observability is no longer optional; it is a fundamental requirement. You want to understand what your application is doing via metrics, how requests are flowing through it via traces, and what it is saying via logs.

The OpenTelemetry project, sometimes abbreviated as OTel, provides a vendor-neutral, open-source framework to collect, process, and export telemetry data. Backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, it offers…

Spring Boot 3.4.11 available now

Releases | October 23, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 55 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 3.4.10 available now

Releases | September 18, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 36 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 3.5.5 available now

Releases | August 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 53 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 3.4.9 available now

Releases | August 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 44 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 3.4.8 available now

Releases | July 24, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 38 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 3.3.11 available now

Releases | April 24, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 49 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, 3.2.14, 3.3.11, and 3.4.5 Released, includes fix for CVE-2025-22235

Releases | April 24, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, 3.2.14, 3.3.11, and 3.4.5 are available now, which fix CVE-2025-22235.

Please refer to the releases page for more details.

Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.1, or 3.2 will be able to update to Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, or 3.2.14 respectively. These Spring Boot versions are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Boot 3.4.4 available now

Releases | March 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 58 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Including one noteworthy change relating to Tomcat APR support. 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

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