We are happy to announce the availability of the second release candidate of Spring Framework 6.2. We have been working on fixing regressions from previous milestones and shipping performance improvements.

Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC2 is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now, check out the detailed changelog for this version.

Spring 3.4.0-RC1 will be released next week, a good opportunity for testing the upcoming Spring generation in existing applications!

6.2 features recap

Check out our What's New page for details about the new features available at this point.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.14 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.14 ships with 25 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.11 and Spring Boot 3.3.5 next week.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Oracle developer advocate Andres Almiray about the latest-and-greatest in the amazing Oracle database. #Oracle #SQL #Java #JConf

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring and ever-so-riveting installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Amsterdam, at the moment, rounding out a week between Antwerp, Beglium, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Today I'm off to Dubai for the fantastic GITEX/DevSlam event. Then I return back to Europe for Voxxed Days Thessaloniki, in Greece. Should be a fun week!

It's certainly been a fun week! Let's dive right into it!

• Spring AI 1.0.0. M3 has been released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to New York Java SIG chair and founder Frank Greco about community, AI, and more
• Spring Cloud 2024.0.0.-M2 (aka Moorgate) has been released
• Spring Batch 5.2.0 M2 is available now
• Oded Shopen, friend of Spring, has updated the distributed microservices implementation of Petclinic to feature a Spring Ai assistant
• Spring Framework committer Sebastien Deleuze was part of this Devoxx Belgium talk looking at Project Leyden, along with Per Minborg, and it's quite amazing what's possible
• Have you checked out …

I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Batch 5.2 is now available from our milestones repository. This blog post walks you through the main changes in Spring Batch 5.2:

• MongoDB job repository support
• New resourceless job repository
• Composite item reader implementation
• New adapters for java.util.function APIs
• Concurrent steps with blocking queue item reader and writer

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

MongoDB job repository support

This release introduces the first NoSQL job repository implementation which is backed by MongoDB. Similar to…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to New York Java SIG chair and founder Frank Greco about AI, safety, Java, community, and more!

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud 2024.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2024.0.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2024.0.0-M2 Release Train

This release of Spring Cloud is based on Spring Boot 3.4.0-M3.

The GitHub project for this release can be found here.

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Support ignorecase with Pageable (#1047)

Spring Cloud Commons

• Create a TrustStore without requiring a KeyStore (#1394)

Spring Cloud Config

• Resources can be stored and received with a given charset (#2115)
• Add MongoDB environment repository support (#2390)
• Support Multiple Labels In Environment Repositories (#2449)
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We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 Milestone 3 release of Spring AI.

This release brings significant enhancements and new features across various areas.

Observability

This release introduces many refinements to the observability stack, particularly for streaming responses from Chat Models. Many thanks to Thomas Vitale and Dariusz Jedrzejczyk for all their help in this area!

Observability covers the ChatClient, ChatModel, Embedding Models and Vector stores enabling you to view all touchpoints with your AI infrstructure in fine grained detail..

In the M2 release we introduced observability…