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Using Your Own Embeddings in Spring AI 2.1
VectorStore.add() takes text documents, generates embeddings with the store's configured model, and saves both. Spring AI 2.1 adds upsert for applica…
Engineering
More →Spring AI 2.1 Message Parts: Reasoning That Survives the Round Trip
Spring AI: Message Parts Doc | Upgrade Notes | OpenAI Responses Doc | Session Doc Reasoning models do more than think before they answer. They hand p…
Spring AI Modular RAG and TypeSafe Jev: Retrieve More, Keep Only What Answers
Spring AI: RAG Doc | Jev Doc | Demo In the previous article we introduced Spring AI TypeSafe and its Jev model: typed questions in, calibrated number…
Spring AI and TypeSafe Jev: Fast, Cheap, Structured Decisions
Reference documentation and GitHub repository We often need quick decision-making components in our AI applications: to pick the next step in a multi…
Releasing Spring for Modern Challenges
Releasing Spring For Modern Challenges TL;DR: The Spring release train has been updated from a two week long train to a single day, the Thursday afte…
Self-Correcting Structured Output in Spring AI 2.0
Large language models are text-in, text-out systems — their interface is natural language. Natural language is a great interface for humans and a po…
MongoDB-backed Spring Batch jobs and more in Spring Boot 4.1
Spring Batch was introduced many years before MongoDB existed, and its design assumed the presence of a SQL database in which to store the state of S…
Series
More →This Week in Spring - October 27th, 2026
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, which I write from the paradise-like environs Barcelona, Spain, where I was…
This Week in Spring - October 20th, 2026
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's almost Halloween! What're you going dressed as, if you celebrate? I'm…
This Week in Spring - October 13th, 2026
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! This one I am writing from beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea in sunny…
Releases
More →Spring Boot 4.0.9 available now
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.9 has been released and is now available from Maven…
Spring Boot 4.1.2 available now
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.1.2 has been released and is now available from Maven…
Spring AI 2.1.0-RC1 and 2.0.2 Available Now
On behalf of the Spring AI team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring AI 2.1.0-RC1 and 2.0.2 have been released and are…
Spring Cloud 2025.1.4 (aka Northfields) Has Been Released
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.4 Release Train is available…
Spring Cloud 2026.0.0-RC1 (aka Paddington) Has Been Released
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2026.0.0-RC1 Release Train is available…
Spring LDAP 4.0.6 and 4.1.2 Available Now
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce the following maintenance releases of Spring LDAP, available now from…
News & Events
More →A New Home for Spring Cloud Contract: Transitioning to Stubborn.sh
For years, Spring Cloud Contract has been an important tool for developers building consumer-driven contracts and ensuring reliable microservices…
Spring and Security In The Times Of AI
TL;DR: As previously mentioned, the May Spring release train has been moved and condensed to June 8-14. The majority of projects within the Spring…
May Release Train Date Changes
UPDATE: The Spring release train needs to move one more time to June 8-12. Updates to https://calendar.spring.io are forthcoming. We thank you for…