Oliver Drotbohm

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.2.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. spring.io/blog/2026/10... #java #spring #springboot

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.1.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. spring.io/blog/2026/10... #java #spring #springboot

An IntelliJ Plugin That Started With a Prompt 😱 Join my talk to learn how you can benefit from LLM strengths and how to prevent the vibe. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/202... #DependencyAssistant

Ceiling to be in the studio… 🤩 #woodwork

Using Spring Modulith? There is a new validation that spots the classic Async + Transactional + TransactionalEventListener combination and includes a quick fix that turns it into a single ApplicationModuleListener annotation - less boilerplate, same behavior 🥳 🚀

🥁📢 Spring Modulith 2.2 RC1 is out! Event publication completion in listener transaction, dedicated abandoned state, improvements in explicit dependency declaration and scenario test. Grab it while it’s hot! Also: bugfix releases. 🍃📦 #SpringModulith

Tell me you're a privileged boomer without telling me you're a privileged boomer. 🙄

Due to a close collaboration with the team behind @intellijidea.com, we are proud to announce that the @springtools.bsky.social for VSCode work nicely together with this new Java tooling for VSCode. Just make sure to update to the latest 2.4.1 release of the Spring Tools for VSCode and enjoy! 🥳

🚀 R2DBC Proxy 1.1.7.RELEASE is out! 🐛 Bug fix: Fixed query completion callbacks for “Result.filter”. 📋 Changelog: github.com/r2dbc/r2dbc-... #R2DBC #Spring #Java

Funny timeline collusion… 😬

Is the IDE dead? The recording of my talk at Devoxx BE from last week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFxR... @devoxx.com

Not sure if that qualifies as midlife crisis already, but I just bought a pair of Yamaha NS-10M Studio for nostalgic reasons. 😅 #Yamaha #NS10M

About last night… #philsiemers #moritzbastei

The official video of Germany’s finest in funk, the Heavytones, covering Nina Chuba’s Wildberry Lillet at Little Big Beat Studios is live, and it’s nothing but uberawesome! 🔥💃 🕺 #Heavytones

Do I get this right? The interactive gh issue create now forces you to set an (actually optional) issue type? 😔

🍃 Demystifying Observability for Spring Applications by @timosalm.bsky.social / @tiffanyfay.dev @ Spring I/O 2026 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/1LVzd9Wggg0 🔗 Slides: 2026.springio.net/slides/demys... 🛠️ GitHub repo: github.com/timosalm/spr... #springio26

I don’t know why but when I hear “human in the loop” what I immediately think of is this…

The office for tonight… #paulapeterssenband

TIL about the Maven Upgrade tool maven.apache.org/tools/mvnup....

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team we are pleased to announce the first milestone of Spring Cloud 2026.0.0. This is the first release of Spring Cloud which is compatible with Spring Boot 4.2.x. See our blog for more details: spring.io/blog/2026/09...

Spring Data 2026.1.0-M2 released spring.io/blog/2026/09...

Releasing spring for Modern challenges https://spring.io/blog/2026/09/21/releasing-spring-for-modern-challenges

Checking dependency upgrades is now a tool-tip away #DependencyAssistant 1.0 is GA now plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/30958... #Maven #Gradle #NPM #GitHubActions

Hey Spring fam 🍃 My early access book "Testing Spring Boot Applications" with @manning.com is Deal of The Day. Get 45% off the book, and a selection of other testing books, here: hubs.la/Q03-d27Y0 First 4 chapters online, the 5th is coming out soon, and putting finishing touches to chapter 6.

Interested in learning what AI will do to your brain and your programming skills over time? I will give a talk about Cognitive Debt next week at @javaforumnord.bsky.social in Hanover - so hope to see you there

Spring Tools 5.4.0 released for @vscode.dev, Cursor, Eclipse Java IDE 2026-09, Theia IDE - and Claude Code - download from spring.io/tools - for more details: github.com/spring-proje...

I hear Apple release a device to watch IMAX movies in original aspect ratio. #Apple #iPhoneDuo

Always worth a (re-)read: “This is Water” – David Foster Wallace.

🍃 Paketo Buildpacks: the Spring Boot way to build images, and more! by Anthony Dahanne @ Spring I/O 2026 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/d7Mv1JTrk80 🔗 Slides: 2026.springio.net/slides/paket... #springio26

happy to announce htmx 4 has been released: four.htmx.org/announcement... major changes: * explicit attribute inheritance by default * event names standardized * history not stored locally by default major features: * idiomorph in core * <hx-partial> tag for flexible content swapping Enjoy!

🥁📢 A new round of #SpringModulith releases is here! 2.2 M1 ships the usual platform upgrades (Boot 4.2, Framework 7.1). The service releases contain quite a few bug fixes in the event processing subsystem. 🍃📦

New PB today at 1:37.97. Thanks to our instructor Oli Rodig (www.instagram.com/kartoli_r – two fast Ollies on the track!) who helped us finding the extra tenths. And for the picture, too! 🙂 #spreewaldring

Track day! #spreewaldring

We released Spring Boot 4.2.0-M1, 4.0.8 and 4.1.1 on Thursday. spring.io/blog/2026/08... spring.io/blog/2026/08... spring.io/blog/2026/08... #java #spring #springboot

Opening release notes and filing a new bug report: Only one Alt+Enter key press away #IntelliJ github.com/mp911de/depe...

In today‘s web publishing world it feels like we have given up on the concept of “paragraph“ entirely. That makes me feel that – just like in code – people’s writing lacks cohesion. Every sentence stands for itself. Even one-word ones. Literally.

For most of us working in the 21st century, a data-flow-first architecture is destructive. (I am not a fan of functional programming, but that's another post.) Probably the worst side effect is strong coupling between processing units, which depend heavily on the previous step in the chain. 3/14

Did you know? Spring Boot 4.1 brings Spring Data 4.1's type-safe property paths enabling devs to use method references instead of strings in data access code: Sort.by("lastname") ➡️ Sort.by(Person::getLastName)

Liked the clean look of the beauty during tonight’s gig preparation earlier today… #yamahadrums

It's never a good idea, in my experience, to split an application horizontally—into back-end and front-end subsystems assigned to different teams, for example, or into separate application and platform teams. 1/10

🍃 #SpringFramework 7.0.9 will finally document AOP proxy semantics for Bean Overrides in tests, with dedicated examples for stubbing through proxies or avoiding proxies altogether with @⁠MockitoSpyBean. 😎 - docs.spring.io/spring-frame... - docs.spring.io/spring-frame...

The office for this afternoon… #sachsenring

Did you know that in Dresden, a public square is named after a common Java artifact packaging approach? 🤔😬

“The problem most companies struggle with is that they're "terminally bad at running software projects effectively." Adding AI to the mix doesn't solve this problem – it just adds a whole new range of ways that software deployment can fail.” — pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/d... #AI

Spring Tools 5.3.0 released for @vscode.dev , Cursor, Eclipse Java IDE 2026-06, Theia IDE, and Claude Code - download from spring.io/tools - for more details: github.com/spring-proje...

An organization with front-end and back-end teams cannot work from stories, at least not in a way that's cost (and time) effective. 6/6

There are no "front end" or "back end" stories, for example, because you don't have value without both front and back ends. This thinking, of course, impacts everything from architecture to team structure. 5/6

Let’s say I‘d need non-GitHub repository hosting that I’d ideally would choose Codeberg for, but can’t due to policy reasons (repo growing too large due to amount of binaries I need to host). Where would I go?

I‘ve heard someone using the term “pretendgineer” today, and I think I’m gonna use this for all the vibe coders from now on. 🙂 #ai

Look at this old fella. And Jacques Villeneuve. 🤩😬 #formula1 #spagrandprix