Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.23.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Syntax validation for JPQL, SQL, HQL embedded in Java code
• (Spring Boot) Syntax highlighting for SQL embedded into Spring Data query annotations
• (Spring Boot) Navigation to beans from @DependsOn
• (Spring Boot) Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3 is available via OpenRewrite recipes.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-06 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.23.…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.3.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 3.3.0 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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On behalf of the Spring Security team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Security Kerberos 2.1.0!

This release brings in bug fixes, version updates, and lots of compatability fixes.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

This is the first GA release to use the separate Spring Functions Catalog.

Release notes are available:

• Spring Functions Catalog
• Stream Applications

We welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or Spring Functions Catalog - GitHub or Stream Applications - GitHub.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0.2 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2023.0.2 release notes for more information.

We are also pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0.7 Release Train is available today. More information can be found at https://spring.io/support .

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.2 Release Train

This release adds compatibility to Spring Boot 3.3.x as well as Spring Boot 3.2.x.

See the GitHub project for all changes made in…

We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 Milestone 1 release of Spring AI.

This release has the following new features an improvements.

ChatClient Fluent API

The fluent API provides methods to construct a Prompt, which is then passed as input to the AI model. You create a ChatClient using the ChatClient.Builder object. You can obtain an auto-configured ChatClient.Builder from Spring Boot autoconfiguration or create one programmatically.

If you're familiar with other Spring client classes like WebClient, RestClient, and JdbcClient, this will feel familiar.

Here is a simple usage example

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.21 and 3.0.16 have been released for support customers. The releases are available from https://packages.broadcom.com.

• Spring Boot 2.7.21 ships with 17 bug fixes and dependency upgrades.
• Spring Boot 3.0.16 ships with 40 bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

The next 2.7.x and 3.0.x releases for support customers are planned for 3 months' time.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.1.12, 3.2.5 and 3.3.0-RC1 has been released and are now available from Maven Central and Milestone Repo respectively.

Please see the release notes 3.1.12, release notes 3.2.5 and release notes 3.3.0-RC1 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am excited to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.2 alongside the service releases 1.1.5 and 1.0.8. The latter two contain a lot of bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. 1.2 most notably ships with new features:

• Support for open application modules
• Support for a package-info.java alternative for Kotlin
• Indexes for event publication registry database tables (JDBC)
• Spring AOT-generated classes excluded from verification
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3 (while retaining compatibility with 3.2 and 3.1)

Find more information in the full changelogs for 1.2 (RC1, M3, M2, M1), 1.1.5 and 1.0.8…