spring-projects/spring-boot

Prefer this fork only if you need an older, sample-rich, course-oriented Spring Boot snapshot. For production use or active development, upstream is the better fit because this fork is materially stale and diverged.

Choose this fork if you want a learning-focused, heavily commented Spring Boot 2.2.x reference. Do not choose it if you need an up-to-date framework baseline or a production-ready branch.

Prefer this fork if you want an educational, heavily annotated Spring Boot variant with custom experiments and do not need current upstream parity. Prefer upstream if you want a maintained production framework with the latest fixes, modules, and release cadence.

Choose this fork only if you need its downstream-specific changes and can absorb ongoing synchronization work. For most Spring Boot adopters, upstream is the safer default; this fork is better for teams explicitly investing in a custom branch.

Choose this fork only if you need its experimental behavior or are intentionally working on an older customized Spring Boot branch. For normal application development, upstream Spring Boot is the better default because this fork is too divergent and too far behind to be a low-risk adoption path.

Prefer upstream unless you specifically need this fork’s old legacy fixes and are committed to staying on an outdated Spring Boot branch. For new work or active maintenance, this fork is too stale and diverged to be a good default.

Prefer upstream unless you specifically need this exact snapshot. This fork does not add capabilities, and its only clear distinction is that it is behind by 96 upstream commits.

Prefer upstream for anything current or production-bound. Choose this fork only if you specifically need its custom Boot behavior and are willing to absorb major rebase/merge debt.

Prefer upstream unless you specifically need the fork's custom plugin-classpath layers behavior, observability additions, or property-model changes and are prepared to maintain a large, stale divergence yourself.