Spring Boot 2.0 was the first release in the 2.x line and was published on Feburary 28th 2018. We’ve just released Spring Boot 2.7 which means that, so far, we’ve been maintaining the 2.x line for just over 4 years. In total we’ve published 95 distinct releases over that timeframe!

The entire Spring team, and many in our community of contributors, are now preparing for the next generation of Spring. We are planning to release Spring Boot 3.0 in November 2022. This next major revision will be based on Spring Framework 6.0 and will require Java 17 or above. It will also be the first version of Spring Boot that makes use of Jakarta EE 9 APIs (jakarta.*) instead of EE 8 (javax.*…

Hi, Spring fans! I'm in Spain for business and not just a little pleasure. Yesterday, my partner, her mother, and I went to Formentera, Spain, a little island off of Ibiza, Spain. It was amazing. We're now in Ibiza, Spain, which is a little island not far from Barcelona, Spain, on the mainland of Spain. It feels a bit like that Inception movie. We traveled by boat to Formentera for a little vacation inside of another little vacation (Ibiza) and inside of another little vacation (Barcelona). Tomorrow I'll return to Barcelona for the Spring IO event. Yes, technically, this is work. But it's an…

Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post by Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division, Microsoft

Azure Spring Cloud is now Azure Spring Apps

We launched Azure Spring Cloud with VMware in 2019 to solve common challenges developers, IT operators, and DevOps teams face when running Spring Boot applications at scale. Since then we’ve helped many customers adopt the service including Bosch, Digital Realty, FedEx, Kroger, Liantis, Morgan Stanley, National Life, Raley’s, and Swiss Re. They value the fully managed infrastructure of Azure Spring Cloud that lets them focus on their apps, while the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.14 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 29 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of OSS Support

2.5.x has now reached the end of its OSS support period and regular releases will no longer be made. If you are still on this version, please consider upgrading at your earliest convenience. If you cannot upgrade at this time, commercial support is available…

On behalf of the Spring for GraphQL team and every contributor, it is my pleasure to announce the 1.0 GA release. It's been 10 months since the project was announced and under 2 years since the first commit, unremarkably called "first commit". The project began with the modest goal to replace the (now archived) minimal GraphQL Java Spring integration, but has since moved significantly beyond through community feedback and collaboration across Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, and Spring Security.

The following are highlights from the release:

• Annotation-based programming model for data fetchers
• Data binding from input arguments with validation
• Field-level security through annotations on data @Controller methods
• Server handlers and interception over HTTP, WebSocket, and RSocket
• Querydsl and Query by Example repositories as data fetchers
• Batch loading support
• Client for executing over HTTP, WebSocket, and RSocket
• Test support with HTTP, WebSocket, RSocket, or directly, without a client
• GraphiQL page and schema printing page
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 35 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.

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On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 2.7

The highlights of the 2.7 release include:

• Auto-configuration and metrics for Spring for GraphQL; see related 1.0 release announcement
• New @DataCouchbaseTest and @DataElasticsearchTest support
• Podman can now be used when building images using Cloud Native Buildpacks
• Support for Cache2k
• Simplified registration of Jackson Mixins
• Web server SSL configuration using PEM-encoded certs
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Devoxx UK organizer and Voxxed Days cofounder Mark Hazell (@mrhazell).

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 74 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

• Auto-configuration for Micrometer Observation, Tracing, and OtlpMeterRegistry
• Reinstated Support for REST Assured and Pooled JMS

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?