Mahmoud Ben Hassine

Mahmoud Ben Hassine

I am a software engineer at VMware, currently working as the project lead of Spring Batch.

I am an OSS advocate and I have contributed to several open source projects. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, reading, running and playing chess!

Recent Blog posts by Mahmoud Ben Hassine

Spring Batch 4.2.5 and 4.3.1 available now

Releases | December 10, 2020 | ...
I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.2.5 and 4.3.1 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These releases include a number of bug fixes and improvements. You can find the change logs here: 4.2.5 and 4.3.1. I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in these releases! Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

Spring Batch 4.3 is now GA!

Releases | October 28, 2020 | ...
Dear Spring Batch community, On behalf of the team and all contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Batch 4.3 is now generally available from Maven Central! This release comes with a number of new features, enhancements, and dependency updates. You can find the complete list of changes in the release notes, but here are the major highlights: Java records support GraalVM support New synchronized ItemStreamWriter New JpaCursorItemReader Implementation Performance improvements in MongoItemWriter and RepositoryItemWriter And more! These features and enhancements have been previously…

Spring Batch 4.3.0-RC1 available now!

Releases | September 17, 2020 | ...
I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-RC1 is now available from our milestone repository. What’s New? This release comes with a number of new features that you can find in the release notes, but here are the major highlights: 1. GraalVM Support A lot of work has already been done in Spring Framework to support running some types of Spring applications on GraalVM. In this release, we made changes in Spring Batch to correctly run Batch applications on GraalVM as well. The support is still experimental, so we encourage you to give the release a try and share your feedback. 2. Java…

Spring Batch 4.3.0-M2 is out!

Releases | August 13, 2020 | ...
On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-M2 is now available from our milestone repository. What’s new? This release comes with a number of new features and enhancements that you can find in the release notes, but here are the major highlights: 1. Kafka support enhancements By default, the KafkaItemReader reads a topic from the beginning. When we initially introduced this reader in v4.2, it was not possible to configure it to read records from a custom offset. In this release, we added this feature. As a result of this addition, it is now possible to…

Spring Batch 4.3.0-M1 is released now!

Releases | June 26, 2020 | ...
On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-M1 is now available from our milestone repository. What’s new? This release is packed with new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes, as well as documentation and dependency updates! You can find the complete list of changes in the release notes, but here are the major highlights: New features 1. New synchronized ItemStreamWriter Similar to the SynchronizedItemStreamReader, we added a SynchronizedItemStreamWriter. This feature is useful in multi-threaded steps where concurrent threads need to be…

Spring Batch 4.2.4 available now!

Releases | June 11, 2020 | ...
I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.2.4 has been released with a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. Please find the complete list of changes in the release notes. Please note that due to a glitch in the release process, we had to bump the patch version from 4.2.3 to 4.2.4. Please upgrade to version 4.2.4 at your earliest convenience as this is the primary active branch for the moment. Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

Spring Batch 4.2.2 and 4.1.4 available now!

Releases | April 01, 2020 | ...
I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 4.2.2 and 4.1.4 with bug fixes and documentation updates. Please find the complete list of changes in the release notes: 4.2.2 and 4.1.4. As we announced earlier, version 4.1.4 is the last release of the 4.1 line. Please upgrade to version 4.2.2 at your earliest convenience as this is the primary active branch for the moment and which will be supported until the end of 2020. The next feature release will be 4.3, with a GA planned for October 2020, aligned with Spring Framework 5.3 and Spring Boot 2.4. This release is expected to be the last…

Spring Batch 4.0.4, 4.1.3 and 4.2.1 available now!

Releases | December 04, 2019 | ...
I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 4.0.4, 4.1.3 and 4.2.1 with bug fixes as well as documentation and dependencies updates. Please find the complete list of changes in the release notes: 4.0.4, 4.1.3, 4.2.1. As we announced earlier this year, version 4.0.4 is the last release of the 4.0 line. The 4.1.x line will get another bug fix release next year and 4.1.4 will be the last release for this line. Please upgrade to v4.2+ at your earliest convenience as this is the primary active branch for the moment. The next feature release will be 4.3, with a GA planned for October 202…

Spring Batch 4.2 in now GA!

Releases | October 02, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Batch 4.2, which includes a number of new features and performance improvements! New Features Spring Batch 4.2 includes the following new features: Batch Metrics with Micrometer Support for Apache Kafka Support for Apache Avro Batch Metrics with Micrometer Spring Batch has always provided users with various metrics through the job repository. However, the ability to consume these metrics and react to them in real time has been muted by the use of a database as the metrics store. This release…

Spring Batch 4.2.0.RC1 is released!

Releases | September 17, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 4.2.0.RC1. We have been working on some performance improvements in the core framework, and this post highlights the major changes. Major Performance Improvements We have made some performance improvements, including: Enhanced Step Partitioning Improved Job Stop Faster Writes with the JpaItemWriter Optimized Bean Mapping with the BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper Enhanced Step Partitioning Starting a partitioned step is an area where the framework wasn't well optimized. In this version, we have dug deep into the…

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