This Week in Spring - December 17th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! It's the 17th of December, 2024! And you know what means? The end of the year is nearly upon us! I can't believe it. It's been a very long year indeed, but I'm happy to get on board a flight bound for San Francisco soon and wind down my year in the company of friends and family. I hope you will too. Let's dive right into this week's roundup!

• Spring Data 2024.1.1 and 2024.0.7 released
• the amazing K. Siva Prasad Reddy (SivaLabs) on A Bootiful Podcast
• Spring Framework 6.1.16 and 6.2.1 are available now
• Announcing Spring AI MCP: a Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol
• Introducing Spring AI Amazon Bedrock Nova Integratino via Converse API
• A nice blog by Michael Minella: Spring Support Updates
• this is an interesting comparison of performance and efficiency in a Spring application implemented using the reactive system and a Spring application implemented without reactive, and - importantly - without Java 21's virtual threads…

Spring Shell 3.3.4 is now available

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

Please see the release notes 3.3.4 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 team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2024.1.1 and 2024.0.7 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

Those releases conclude an exceptional year for the Spring Data project with all of your contributions. Thank you. We wish you happy holidays and a Happy New Year.

Going forward, we plan on shipping a first milestone of the Spring Data 4.0 development line (Calver 2025.1.0 M1) in…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment I talk to industry legend K. Siva Prasad Reddy (@sivalabs). You've probably read one of his blogs. I know I have!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.16 and 6.2.1 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.16 ships with 6 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.3.7 next week.

Spring Framework 6.2.1 ships with 49 fixes and documentation improvements, including several regressions from 6.2.0. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.4.1 next week.

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We're excited to introduce Spring AI MCP, a robust Java SDK implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This new addition to the Spring AI ecosystem brings standardized AI model integration capabilities to the Java platform.

What is MCP?

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to Large Language Models (LLMs). MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools, making integration seamless and consistent. It helps you build agents and complex workflows on top of LLMs. LLMs frequently…

The Amazon Bedrock Nova models represent a new generation of foundation models supporting a broad range of use cases, from text and image understanding to video-to-text analysis.

With the Spring AI Bedrock Converse API integration, developers can seamlessly connect to these advanced Nova models and build sophisticated conversational applications with minimal effort.

This blog post introduces the key features of Amazon Nova models, demonstrates their integration with Spring AI's Bedrock Converse API, and provides practical examples for text, image, video, document processing, and function…

Last month, the team delivered a release train that includes Spring Framework 6.2 (the final minor version for the Spring Framework 6.x line), Spring Boot 3.4, and a round of minor version updates across the portfolio, this is a time to celebrate the new capabilities that have been added, as well as clarify the long term support arrangement for the portfolio.

New Capabilities Abound

Below is just a small sampling of the new and exciting capabilities included in the November releases of the Spring portfolio. We encourage you to check out the release notes for your favorite projects for further…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in the southern hemisphere (it's summer down here!), in Brisbane, waiting to board a plane for Sydney. It's been a ton of fun!

• I did a video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Framework 6.2 - check it out!
• I did another video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Data 2024.1
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Spring Security lead Rob Winch
• to learn more about Spring AI's new audio features, check out this blog by Christian Tzolov
• Spring Tools 4.27.0 has been released
• this is an interesting read from Karanbir Singh on Spring Boot 3.4x's OAuth2 client using RestClient
• WireMock now has an official Spring Boot integration
• this video by BellSoft's Catherine Edelveis on using CRaC with Spring Boot…