On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 49 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 28 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.

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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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the firs Milestone of Spring Integration 6.5.0 generation.

In addition to dependency upgrades for their latest major/minor versions, this Milestone includes removals for previous deprecations.

Some notable changes so far are:

• The Java DSL controlBus() operator is restored from the deprecated state, but now it does exactly the same what previously introduced controlBusOnRegistry(), which is deprecated now;
• Previously, if a MessageGroupProcessor returns a collection of payloads, the AbstractCorrelatingMessageHandler has failed with the IllegalArgumentException stating that only collection of messages is possible.
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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…

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.

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…

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…

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!

• Good news, everybody! Spring Cloud AWS 3.3.0 is available!
• A neat video on stored procedures in Spring
• A very interesting article on the flow diagrams for Spring Security—a must-bookmark!
• The Spring Academy has a new tutorial on Spring Cloud Stream.
• Christian Tsolov (our very own Spring AI wunderkind!) has an amazing blog detailing how to write agentic code with Spring AI.
• Spring Data 2024.1.2 and 2024.0.8 released.
• Spring gRPC 0.3.0 released.
• In last week's installment of a Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the Apache Causeway project's Dan Haywood.
• Spring Framework 6.2.2 is available.
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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…