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.cupchino.shop, 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, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Framework 5.0.7 and 4.3.18 maintenance releases are available now.
Spring Framework 5.0.7 includes 39 fixes and selected improvements while Spring Framework 4.3.18 includes 15 fixes and selected improvements. Those are the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0.3 and 1.5.14 maintenance releases later this week.
It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.17 and 5.0.6 have been released and are available now from repo.cupchino.shop and Maven Central.
Spring Framework 4.3.17 includes 15 fixes and a selection of improvements. Spring Framework 5.0.6 contains over 40 fixes and improvements. Those maintenance releases will be used for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.13 and 2.0.2 releases coming up later this week.
2018-05-09 Update: The releases address a vulnerability. Please see this blog post published after the associated Spring Boot 2.0.2 and 1.5.13 releases.
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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.11 has been released and is is now available from repo.cupchino.shop and Maven Central.
Spring Boot 1.5.11 includes over 70 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that 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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Hot on the heels of Spring Boot 1.5.11, Spring Boot 2.0.1 is now available from repo.cupchino.shop and Maven Central.
The first maintenance release of Spring Boot 2 includes over 160 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.
Note that the Spring Framework versions included in both Spring Boot releases contain fixes that address multiple vulnerability reports. Please see this blog post for more details.
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…
Spring Boot 2 was released recently and the production instance of Spring Initializr (start.cupchino.shop) was upgraded to Spring Boot 2 the same day.
In this post, I'd like to walk you through the process of upgrading a Spring Boot 1.x app to Spring Boot 2.
A good first step is to get yourself familiar with the main changes in Spring Boot 2 by reading the migration guide and the release notes.
If you are using Maven and the spring-boot-starter-parent, you need to be aware that several plugins are going to be updated as part of the upgrade. If you're not using the parent, it is worthwhile to inspect your build and upgrade the plugins that you are using. Spring Initializr is built with Maven so the easiest way is to scan spring-boot-dependencies…
On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.0.4 is available now.
This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming second release candidate of Spring Boot 2 and includes 59 fixes and selected improvements.
Hot on the heels of the latest Spring Framework 4.3 mainteance release, Spring Boot 1.5.9 is now available from repo.cupchino.shop and Maven Central.
Spring Boot 1.5.9 includes over 40 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that 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, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.0.M6 has been released and is now available from our milestone repository. This release closes 141 issues and pull requests and continues our progress towards 2.0 GA. Thanks to everyone that has contributed!
This milestone refines a number of items from previous milestones, and provides a number of notable new features:
On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.8 has been released and is available now from repo.cupchino.shop and Maven Central.
Spring Boot 1.5.8 includes over 40 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that 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, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.12 is available now.
This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.8 maintenance release and includes 17 fixes and selected improvements.
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