Rob Winch

Rob Winch

Rob Winch is employed by VMware as the project lead of security related projects within Spring. He is also a committer on the core Spring Framework and co-author for Spring Security LiveLessons and a Spring Security book. In the past he has worked in the health care industry, bioinformatics research, high performance computing, and as a web consultant. When he is not sitting in front of a computer he enjoys cycling with his friends.

Blog posts by Rob Winch

Spring Security 2025-10 Releases

Releases | October 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 7.0.0-RC1, 6.4.12 and 6.5.6.

The highlights of 7.0.0-RC1 include:

For a complete list of changes, refer to the changelogs:

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Session Hazelcast: Now Led by Hazelcast Team

Engineering | October 14, 2025 | ...

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Spring Session Hazelcast project will now be led by the Hazelcast Team.

NOTE: This announcement is in alignment with our announcement Spring Session MongoDB: Now Led by MongoDB Team.

For ten years Spring Session has provided the infrastructure for transparently replacing session stores in a vendor independent manner. With that infrastructure in place, it is just a matter of implementing SessionRepository javadoc in order to support storing session information in a new datastore.

I cannot think of a team who has more Hazelcast experience than the Hazelcast team themselves and so it gives me great pleasure to announce the Hazelcast team will be leading the next generation of Spring Session Hazelcast! To best enable this transition, the next generation of releases will be in a new GitHub repository and have new Maven coordinates. Support for existing generations of Spring Session Hazelcast will continue to be maintained by the Spring Session team as described by the Spring Support Policy

Spring Session MongoDB: Now Led by MongoDB Team

Engineering | October 14, 2025 | ...

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Spring Session MongoDB project will now be led by the MongoDB Team.

NOTE: This announcement is in alignment with our announcement Spring Session Hazelcast: Now Led by Hazelcast Team.

For ten years Spring Session has provided the infrastructure for transparently replacing session stores in a vendor independent manner. With that infrastructure in place, it is just a matter of implementing SessionRepository javadoc in order to support storing session information in a new datastore.

I cannot think of a team who has more MongoDB experience than the MongoDB team themselves and so it gives me great pleasure to announce that the MongoDB team will be leading the next generation of Spring Session MongoDB! To best enable this transition, the next generation of code will be hosted in a new GitHub repository and have new Maven coordinates, both available in November. Support for existing generations of Spring Session MongoDB will continue to be maintained by the Spring Session team as described by the Spring Support Policy

Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring

Engineering | January 06, 2025 | ...

The Spring team will be rolling out a simplified contribution process that replaces the requirement to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) with a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO). The process will start this week with Spring Framework, Spring Security, & Spring Boot and then roll out to the entire Spring portfolio.

History

Spring has long used a permissive Contributor License Agreement (CLA) in order to provide legal protections to the Spring project, users, and the Spring team. Long time contributors may remember that signing the CLA originally involved emailing a signed PDF of…

Get ahead

VMware offers training and certification to turbo-charge your progress.

Learn more

Get support

Tanzu Spring offers support and binaries for OpenJDK™, Spring, and Apache Tomcat® in one simple subscription.

Learn more

Upcoming events

Check out all the upcoming events in the Spring community.

View all