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.404ofchina.website, 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 and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the third release candidate for Spring Framework 7.0. This should be our last release candidate before our GA version in November. We have compiled all the upgrade information, new features and deprecations on the Spring Framework 7.0 release notes preview page.
Spring Framework 7.0.0-RC3 ships with 17 new features, fixes, and documentation improvements.
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 69 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who 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.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.0.16 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 11 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who 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-ws tag.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 9 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who 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-ws tag.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 5.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 10 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.
Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.
Thanks to all those who 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-ws tag…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 43 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who 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.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.4 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.
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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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 5.0.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 11 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:
Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.
Thanks to all those who 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-ws tag…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.
This release includes 2 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who 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-ws tag.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.13 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.
Spring Boot 3.3.13 marks the end of open source support for Spring Boot 3.3.x. Please upgrade to Spring Boot 3.4.x or 3.5.x as soon as possible. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Boot 3.3.x is available…
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