I am happy to announce the availability of Spring HATEOAS 2.1.4, 2.2.1 and 2.3 M1. The releases primarily contain bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

For the 2.1.4 and 2.2.1 service releases we have deviated from our usual dependency upgrade policy which only allows bug fix upgrades of dependencies in bug fix releases. These branches had referenced a version of the JSONPath library that has a CVE attached to it which was only fixed in a new minor release. We exceptionally decided to upgrade to that fixed version.

For a full list of changes, refer to the individual change logs of 2.1.4, 2.2.1 and 2.3 M1…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.5, 6.0.18 and 5.3.33 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.5 ships with 45 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.4, to be released next week.

Spring Framework 6.0.18 ships with 11 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.1.10, to be released next week.

Spring Framework 5.3.33 ships with 10 fixes and documentation improvements.

The releases address CVE-2024-22259 for URL Parsing with Host…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long looks at how to use Spring Batch's remote partitioning support to easy-button your data processing scale out strategies.

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.22.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Add Spring Boot Starters... InlayHint in Spring Boot projects pom.xml next to <dependencies> tag (VSCode only at the moment)
• (Spring Boot) early TestJars support #1197
• (Eclipse) fixed: Spring Tool Suite 17 with maven no longer copies application.properties file to the target folder #929

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-03 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it's going to be!

• Do this first: we need your help! Please answer some questions in our State of Spring survey!
• Join me for a look at the latest-and-greatest, chronicling how I got started with Spring Boot in 2024!
• Spring AI 0.8.1, with new support for Google's Gemini, Mistral AI, QDrant vector store, and improvements across the board, has been released!. Also: it should work with AOT! (let us know if it doesn't!)
• Cristian Schuszter sat down with me for a discussion about CERN, what they do, their use of Java and Spring Boot, and so much more in this installment of A Bootiful Podcast.
• Speaking of Spring AI, just last week they announced easy, portable support for function callbacks…

We are happy to announce the milestone 0.8.1 release of Spring AI. Thanks for all the community contributions and great discussion on GitHub issues.

This release has the following new features and improvements.

Google Gemini

Google recently released its Gemini AI Model. It has many exciting features and functionalities; check their release blog for an overview.

Features supported in Spring AI are:

• One of Gemini's marquee features is its multimodal support. This lets you chat with the model using images, videos, and text. For example, you can send the model a photo of a plate of cookies and ask it to give you a recipe for those cookies. Spring AI supports this feature; read more about it here and take a look at the sample application that showcases many Gemini features.
• Streaming and Non-Streaming chat clients
• Function Calling
• Native compilation of Gemini applications
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NB: the code is here on my Github account: github.com/joshlong/bootiful-spring-boot-2024-blog.

Hi, Spring fans! I'm Josh Long, and I work on the Spring team. I'm excited to be keynoting and giving a talk at Microsoft's JDConf this year. I'm a Kotlin GDE and a Java Champion, and I'm of the opinion that there's never been a better time to be a Java and Spring Boot developer. I say that fully aware of where we stand in the span of things today. It's been 21+ years since the earliest releases of the Spring Framework and 11+ years since the earliest releases of Spring Boot. This year marks 20 years…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Cristian Schuszter, a software engineer at CERN. (This episode was recorded live at VOXXED DAYS CERN!).

Don't forget to help us out with the State of Spring Survey

UPDATE: As of March 13, 2024, Mistral AI has integrated support for parallel function calling into their large model, a feature that was absent at the time of this blog's initial publication.

Mistral AI, a leading developer of open-source large language models, unveiled the addition of Function Calling support to its cutting-edge models.

Function Calling is a feature that facilitates the integration of LLM with external tools and APIs. It enables the language model to request the execution of client-side functions, allowing it to access necessary run-time information or perform tasks…