Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.26.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) CRON expressions have auto completion and a nice description as inlay hints now
• (Spring Boot) @ConditionalOnBean and @ConditinalOnMissingBean have auto completion support now for bean names, including support for go to definition
• (Spring Boot) support for go to definition for beans and methods in SPEL expressions
• (Spring Boot) Improvements to completion proposals ordering for application.properties files
• (Spring Boot) Fixes to PostgreSql validation
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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.

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…

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.2.8, 3.3.3 and 3.4.0-M2 has been released and are now available from Maven Central and Milestone Repo respectively.

Please see the release notes 3.2.8, release notes 3.3.3 and release notes 3.4.0-M2 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 happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.3 M3, 1.2.4, and 1.1.9. While the latter two ship the usual bugfixes and service release bugfix upgrades, I am particularly delighted about the milestone releases as it contains two major community contributions. Here are the most significant new features:

• Support for change-aware test execution (contributed by @lukasdo and @davidbilge) which optimizes test runs along the changes made to the application by skipping tests not affected by those.
• A new deleting event publication completion mode to — as the name suggests — immediately delete completed event publications.
• Support for contributing application modules from other packages and external JARs.
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server in JDBC-based event publication registry (contributed by @oyjoh, GH-804).
• Deprecate spring.modulith.republish-outstanding-events-on-restart in favor of the variant residing in spring.modulith.test.… (GH-823…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 38 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 51 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …