This Week in Spring - April 8th, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! How are ya? I'm doing fine. Excited, even. You see, Spring AI M7 is coming soon! In theory, it drops on Thursday. Don't hold us to that — these things can change :-) But soon, and it's turning out to be a whopper of a release!
You should try upgrading your application to the new M7 by using the -SNAPSHOT
builds. The coordinates for the various starters have been reworked, so things will break there. Don't panic — you just need to update the coordinates. There's good information in the documentation.
Here's the gist:
- Model starters:
spring-ai-{model}-spring-boot-starter
→spring-ai-starter-model-{model}
- Vector Store starters:
spring-ai-{store}-store-spring-boot-starter
→spring-ai-starter-vector-store-{store}
- MCP starters:
spring-ai-mcp-{type}-spring-boot-starter
→spring-ai-starter-mcp-{type}
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