Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.2 is available

Releases | Soby Chacko | January 22, 2025 | ...

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring for Apache Kafka version 3.3.2

Release Notes

For details about what's included in this release, please refer to the release notes:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.3.2

Kafka Client 3.9.x compatibility

This release supports Kafka Client versions 3.8.x and 3.9.x. If your application requires Kafka Client 3.9.x, you'll need to manually upgrade the client version. For instructions on overriding Kafka client versions in Spring Boot, please refer to our documentation.

Spring Boot Integration

The 3.3.2 release will be incorporated into the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.2. Additionally, this version will be included in the Spring Boot 3.5.x line and will ship with the upcoming Spring Boot 3.5.0-M1

Spring AMQP 3.2.2 Available

Releases | Artem Bilan | January 22, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the 3.2.2 patch release for Spring AMQP.

This version includes some bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

See more info in the Release Notes.

Many thanks to community for feedback and prompt fixes!

Now we are switching to 4.0 generation which is going to be based on Spring Framework 7.0. It will have some long-standing breaking changes, incorporate a new null-safety from Spring Framework based on JSpecify. We also are looking for including a new spring-rabbit-amqp10 module based on the com.rabbitmq.client:amqp-client library for AMQP protocol 1.0. Don't hasitate to reach us out in…

Building Effective Agents with Spring AI (Part 1)

Engineering | Christian Tzolov | January 21, 2025 | ...

In a recent research publication: Building effective agents, Anthropic shared valuable insights about building effective Large Language Model (LLM) agents. What makes this research particularly interesting is its emphasis on simplicity and composability over complex frameworks. Let's explore how these principles translate into practical implementations using Spring AI.

Agent Systems

While the pattern descriptions and diagrams are sourced from Anthropic's original publication, we'll focus on how to implement these patterns using Spring AI's features for model portability and structured output. We recommend…

Spring Milestones to Maven Central

News | Michael Minella | January 21, 2025 | ...

TL;DR; The Spring portfolio will begin releasing its milestones and release candidates to Maven Central starting with the releases related to the major versions due out in November.

As we enter the new year, we look forward to many new opportunities for the Spring ecosystem. We see JDK 25 coming in the fall. We see both minor versions of the entire portfolio and a new major version coming out this year with a long list of new capabilities. And we see Spring AI going GA ushering in a new class of workloads for enterprise applications, bringing agentic AI to the enterprise through programming…

This Week in Spring - January 21st, 2025

Engineering | Josh Long | January 21, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's time to dive into this week's wondrous roundup!

Spring Data 2024.1.2 and 2024.0.8 released

Releases | Mark Paluch | January 17, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2024.1.2 and 2024.0.8 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.

Next week, we are shipping a first milestone of the Spring Data 4.0 development line (Calver 2025.1.0 M1) containing several refinements around JPA support including the baseline upgrade to JPA 3.2 (Hibernate 7.0 Beta3, Eclipselink 5.0 B05) based on Spring Framework 7.0 M1. This is…

Spring gRPC 0.3.0 released

Releases | Dave Syer | January 17, 2025 | ...

The experimental Spring gRPC project released its 0.3.0 version recently. Jars are available in Maven Central, and you can generate a new project with Spring gRPC at https://start.spring.io. We recommend you do that if you are trying it out because there are some build plugins to configure and the generated project will have that all sorted out for you.

The new release has some updates to factory interfaces on the client side. Also there is now full support for autoconfiguration of client side interceptors, including the ones from Micrometer. On the server side we now support Spring Security…

This Week in Spring - January 14th, 2025

Engineering | Josh Long | January 14, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans, and greetings from the island of St. Barths! Salut depuis l'île de Saint-Barthélemy!

I'm on a bit of PTO and have been bouncing around from one beach to another with my family. I just landed on a winning combination for a beach: warm water, a restaurant/bar, and some for-pay seats with shade. There are precisely three things to do in such a cherished spot: use it as a launchpad for occasional dips in the sea, read, and sleep—usually in that order!

And you know what I've been reading? The wild and wacky antics of the Spring community, of course!

There's a ton of exciting news…

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