We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 Milestone 5 release of Spring AI

As usual, this release has had several new features and bug fixes, however we have put a focus on reviewing the code base from a design perspective with the aim to go GA in early 2025. While we have tried to make this transition smooth, by deprecating methods and classes for one release cycle, there are some breaking changes we know about and perhaps some that we don’t, so please bear with us. See the section on Breaking Changes below.

New Features

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support - Incubating

MCP is a game-changer for…

We're pleased to announce Spring AI MCP 0.2.0 milestone release.

Repository Configuration

Add this Spring milestone repository to your POM:

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>spring-milestones</id>
    <name>Spring Milestones</name>
    <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone-local</url>
    <snapshots>
      <enabled>false</enabled>
    </snapshots>
  </repository>
</repositories>

Breaking Changes

• Module restructuring (see the Module Names Updated section below)
• Renamed StdioServerTransport to StdioClientTransport

Key Features

API Updates

• Simplified McpClient listing operations (no cursor parameter needed)
• Added McpClient.Builder support.
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On behalf of the community, I am delighted to announce the releases of Spring Modulith 1.3.1, 1.2.7, and 1.1.12.

The releases primarily ship dependency updates and bug fixes, but 1.3.1 also includes a couple of improvements in both our own reference documentation but also in our documentation generation support.

Find more information in the full change logs of the individual releases linked above.

Happy Holidays!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 53 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 80 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 5.1.3 and 5.2.1 are available now from Maven Central!

These patch releases come with a number of bug fixes, improvements and dependencies updates. You can find the release notes of each version here: 5.1.3 and 5.2.1.

Please note that version 5.1.3 is the last OSS release of the 5.1.x line. Please check the support page for more details about our support policy.

We look forward to your feedback on Github Issues, Github Discussions, Twitter, and StackOverflow.

Spring Batch Home|Source on Github|…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.7 and 1.2.1 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3.7 and 3.4.1 releases, respectively.

This release includes numerous dependency upgrades.

Please see the release notes (1.1.7 and 1.2.1) for more details.

We are pleased to announce the availability of point releases for of Spring for Apache Kafka versions 3.3.1 and 3.2.6 . We thank everyone who contributed to these releases.

Release Notes

See the release notes for more details on what's included in these releases:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.3.1

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.2.6

Kafka Client 3.9.0 compatibility

The 3.3.1 version is compatible with Kafka Client version 3.9.0, but the compile time dependency in the framework is on Kafka client version 3.8.1. To use Kafka client version 3.9.0 or above with 3.3.1, the applications need to manually upgrade the Kafka client version. To see more details on how to override the Kafka client versions when using Spring Boot, see this…

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…