This episode of A Bootiful Podcast interviews Moritz Halbritter, a Spring Boot team member, focusing on recent advancements in Spring Boot and Spring Framework. The conversation covers Spring Boot 3.4's features (e.g., improved REST client flexibility, graceful shutdown, ARM support), upcoming changes in 3.5 (e.g., ignoring configuration properties, loading properties from multiline environment variables), and the major shift to Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4.0, which will include JSpecify nullness annotations for improved null safety. Halbritter also discusses his work on Spring Initializr, highlighting its plugin architecture and code generation capabilities, exemplified by the recent integration of the Anthropic Model Context Protocol (MCP) Java SDK. Listeners gain insights into the development process of major Spring releases and learn about practical improvements and upcoming changes impacting Spring developers.
