Spring Boot 4 is embracing Jackson 3 and using the reactive Context properly. A solid week.

The Spring community is active as always, the AI story in Java looks solid and a back-to-basics piece on dependencies. Good stuff.

JDK 25 brought some solid performance improvements, and JDK 26 is already looking quite good with its new HTTP/3 support.

JDK 25 brought some solid performance improvements, and JDK 26 is already looking quite good with its new HTTP/3 support.

JDK 25 brought some solid performance improvements, and JDK 26 is already looking quite good with its new HTTP/3 support.

Final fields finally being final final in JDK 26 is a good move. And our last launch of the year, Black Friday, is going live today. A good week :)

Spring 7 is out. Lots and lots of releases and reading material in this one :)

Spring 7 is out. Lots and lots of releases and reading material in this one :)

Spring 7 is out. Lots and lots of releases and reading material in this one :)

Java 26 is now frozen and looking good :)

Java 26 is now frozen and looking good :)

New Kotlin support in Boot 4 and really useful Virtual Threads support in IntelliJ

Happy New Year. A quick one as we head into 2026 :)

Another quick one as we're getting 2026 started. Some very useful insights into architecture.

Going beyond pattern matching in modern Java, concurrency improvements and evolving as a developer along with AI. A solid week :)

Going beyond pattern matching in modern Java, concurrency improvements and evolving as a developer along with AI. A solid week :)

Carrier classes might be coming to Java. And we're already looking forward to Boot 4.1 :)

Carrier classes might be coming to Java. And we're already looking forward to Boot 4.1 :)

Jakarta EE 12 is getting closer and JDK 26 and yes, 27 on the horizon :)

Quantum resistant cryptogrphy coming to JDK 27