On behalf of the Spring AI engineering team and everyone who has contributed, we are happy to announce that Spring AI 1.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This patch release delivers important stability improvements and bug fixes.

Release Summary

This release includes 40 improvements, bug fixes, and documentation updates. The focus of this patch release is on:

• Improvements: 12 enhancements to expand capabilities and functionality
• Stability: 10 bug fixes addressing community-reported issues
• Documentation: 12 improvements to help developers
• Security: 6 dependency upgrades for enhanced security

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Key Highlights

• Enhanced functionality with 12 improvements
• Updated dependencies for better security and performance

Key Functional Areas Enhanced

This release brings significant improvements across major functional areas of Spring AI:

• OpenAI Reasoning Content Access - Added extraBody and reasoningContent support in OpenAI API, allowing access to reasoning chains and custom model parameters
• MongoDB Chat Memory - Added MongoDB repository implementation for storing conversation history in MongoDB databases
• Model Context Protocol Tool Caching - Event-driven caching mechanism for MCP tool callbacks reduces redundant operations
• Ollama Thinking Mode - Added thinking mode support for Ollama reasoning models with reasoning_effort parameter control
• Automatic Network Retry - Network exception retry configuration improves resilience in distributed deployments
• OpenAI Text-to-Speech Interface - Migrated OpenAI TTS to shared TextToSpeechModel interface with standardized Double speed parameter

These enhancements strengthen Spring AI's capabilities across the entire AI application development lifecycle.

What's Next

The Spring AI team continues to focus on improving AI application development with Spring Boot. Based on the momentum from 1.1.0-RC1, we are excited to release 1.1.0 GA pretty soon.

For the latest updates and to contribute to the project, visit our GitHub repository or join the discussion in our community channels.

Resources

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow

🙏 Contributors

Thanks to all contributors who made this release possible:

• Alexandros Pappas (@apappascs)
• Christian Tzolov (@tzolov)
• Daniel Garnier-Moiroux (@Kehrlann)
• Eric Bottard (@ericbottard)
• guanxu (@guanxuc)
• Ilayaperumal Gopinathan (@ilayaperumalg)
• Issam El-atif (@ielatif)
• James Ward (@jamesward)
• liugddx (@liugddx)
• Mark Pollack (@markpollack)
• Martin Kamp Jensen (@mkjensen)
• Nguyen Tran (Mark) (@nguyen.trantrung)
• Philip I. Thomas (@philipithomas)
• Senrey_Song (@SenreySong)
• Thorben Janssen (@thjanssen)
• Tran Ngoc Nhan (@ngocnhan-tran1996)
• vdm24 (@vdm24)
• Viacheslav Dobrynin (@viacheslav-dobrynin)
• Wenli Tian (@jamespud)
• Yanming Zhou (@quaff)
• Łukasz Jernaś (@deejay1)