On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0-RC1 is now available from Maven Central!

What's new?

This first release candidate comes with feature alignment with the previous generation as well as several improvements and bug fixes.

Major changes include:

• Support for debug mode
• Support for command completion and custom completion providers
• Support for hidden commands
• Support for command option validation with the Bean Validation API
• Support for exception mapping

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

What's next?

Our plan for now is to make this release candidate as stable as possible in preparation for Spring Shell 4.0 GA by the end of this year.

Feedback

Thanks to all contributors who helped make this release possible! As we continue our work on Spring Shell 4.0, we look forward to your feedback on GitHub Issues and GitHub Discussions.

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