Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Mary Ellen Bowman, a legendary Spring instructor!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's 29 April 2025 and things are starting to kick into overdrive! Starting next week, I'll be doing:

• Devoxx UK
• CodeRemix Miami
• JForum #123 in Stockholm, Sweden
• Spring IO in Barcelona, Spain
• JNation in Coimbra, Portugal
• The Japan Java User Group Spring (time) conference in Tokyo, Japan

If you're going to be there or near there, don't hesitate to say "hi"!

As always, we've got a ton of stuff cooking this week, too! Let's dive right into it!

• Spring Boot 3.5.0-RC1 is available now
• Spring gRPC 0.8.0 is available now
• Spring Modulith 1.4 RC1, 1.3.5, and 1.2.11 released
• Spring Vault 3.1.3 and 3.2.0 M1 available now
• In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to fellow Java Champion and VJUG cofounder Simon Maple
• Spring Boot 3.3.11 available now
• Likewise, Spring Boot 3.4.5 is available now
• Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, 3.2.14, 3.3.11, and 3.4.5 released, includes fix for CVE-2025-22235
• Spring Authorization Server 1.5.0-RC1, 1.4.3, and 1.3.6 available now
• Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-M2 and 3.3.5 are available now
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, we catch up with Java Champion, Tessl Devrel head, Virtual JUG co-founder, and friend Simon Maple! This episode was recorded at the amazing ArcOfAI conference held in amazing Austin, TX!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, which I'm writing from magnificent Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I'm recording an amazing Frontend Masters course introducing Spring Boot.

• I love this article introducing Spring AI in JavaPro magazine
• Want to run an LLM entirely in Java, supercharged with GraalVM native images? Check out this tweet from GraalVM developer advocate Alina Yurenko — it's dope.
• I loved it so much I made a quick YouTube Short on the same topic.
• By the way, want to learn Java? This is a great resource.
• The amazing Spring AI co-lead Christian Tsolov has a great talk introducing MCP.
• Spring team alumnus Arjen Poutsma has helped shape the APIs in Spring for a long time with his famous Poutsma Principles — in this blog, he discusses them.
• Spring Data 2025.0.0-RC1…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I'm joined by well-known member of the Java community Jeff Genender, whose contributions to Apache over the decades have driven several key projects with which you're no doubt familiar.

• Spring AI M7 is here! This new release includes a bunch of awesome new features! And some refactorings. Notably that the Spring AI auto-configuration has changed from a single monolithic artifact to individual auto-configuration artifacts per model, vector store, and other components. This change was made to minimize the impact of different versions of dependent libraries conflicting, such as Google Protocol Buffers, Google RPC, and others. By separating auto-configuration into component-specific artifacts, you can avoid pulling in unnecessary dependencies and reduce the risk of version…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Wiremock's leaders Lee Turner and Tom Akehurst

Hi, Spring fans! How are ya? I'm doing fine. Excited, even. You see, Spring AI M7 is coming soon! In theory, it drops on Thursday. Don't hold us to that — these things can change :-) But soon, and it's turning out to be a whopper of a release!

You should try upgrading your application to the new M7 by using the -SNAPSHOT builds. The coordinates for the various starters have been reworked, so things will break there. Don't panic — you just need to update the coordinates. There's good information in the documentation.

Here's the gist:

• Model starters: spring-ai-{model}-spring-boot-starter → spring-ai-starter-model-{model}
• Vector Store starters: spring-ai-{store}-store-spring-boot-starter → spring-ai-starter-vector-store-{store}
• MCP starters: spring-ai-mcp-{type}-spring-boot-starter → spring-ai-starter-mcp-{type}
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to AWS Developer Advocate and industry legend James Ward about AWS Bedrock, Amazon Cohere, Spring AI, MCP, and so much more!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting installment of This Week in Spring! It's April Fools day, so be wary of things you read on the internet, but it's also the 11th anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0, which was released this day in 2014! (that's not an April Fools). Happy birthday!

I'm in excellent Austin, TX, at Dr. Venkat Subramaniam's phenomenal Arc of AI show. I love this show! So many amazing people - many of whom also happen to be world-class speakers and engineers - converge in one place to synthesize their vantage point on "A.I." in one hour. Of course, I will be talking about…