Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I write this to you in an Uber speeding down the autobahn near Frankfurt, Germany. What a time to be alive! At the rate this driver's going, I won't have much time to write this before we've arrived, so let's dive right into it!

• Another banger from Spring AI teammate and community member Thomas Vitale called: Leverage the Power of 45k, free, Hugging Face models with Spring AI and Ollama
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.0-RC1 is now available
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.11 and 1.1.5 are now available
• Spring Security 6.4.0-RC1 is available now
• Spring Security 6.3.4, 6.2.7 and 5.8.15 are available now
• Spring REST Docs 3.0.2 is now available
• Spring Data 2024.1.0 goes RC1
• Spring Data 2024.0.5 and 2023.1.11 released
• Spring Tools 4.26.0 released
• Spring Framework CVE-2024-38819 and CVE-2024-38820 published
• Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC2 available now
• Spring Framework 6.1.14 Available Now
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Oracle Developer Advocate Andres Aalmiray
• Nicolas Frankel wrote an amazing article: Vaadin, the battery-included server-side AJAX framework.
• Nice find by community legend Maciej Walkowiak to help those who struggle with the concepts: What Are Domain-Driven Design Aggregates?
• our friend Siva, over at Jetbrains, updated his Spring Modulith example application, which now incorporates Thymeleaf and HTMX
• Nice! IntelliJ IDEA has even better GraalVM native image debugging technology
• Also, IntelliJ IDEA now features derived method generation for Spring Data repositories, which I love to see.
• Speaking of both derived methods and my friend Siva, over at Jetbrains, he also put together a nice video looking at Spring Data JPA derived query methods
• Stephen Janssen, founder of the Devoxx conference series, has put together a nice Spring Boot starter that lets you run Llama3.java, in a Spring Boot context. Nice!
• Sergi Almar, organizer and founder of the amazing Barcelona-based Spring I/O conference, has another great post as well looking at how to create an easy RAG system with Spring AI
• Thomas Wuerthinger points to a nice German-languge article showcasing the performance of the GraalVM JIT compiler (not even native images)
• I hope you won't mind a bit of a meta post, but I was intereviewed, along with some truly awesome folks, at Devoxx on how to do developer relations, which in theory is what I do. You might find it interesting. Or not. Good thing there are other things to read in this roundup!