Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already the 20th of January and we are off on yet another rip roarin' adventure as we look at the week that has been... this week in Spring!

• even more good stuff from Spring AI team legend Christian Tsolov, this one on Spring AI agentic patterns (part 2!): AskUserQuestionTool. This blog is about agents that clarify before acting
• Spring Security 7.1.0M1 is available now
• Spring Data 2025.1.2 and 2025.0.8 released
• Spring Framework 7.0.3 is available now
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to everyone's favorite observability otter, Jonatan Ivanov, about Micrometer and observability and all the things
• looks interesting - a video on Spring AI integrations with Geminni AI and Github CoPilot
• another interesting post on mastering intelligent application with Spring AI
• And last, but not least, a very happy birthday to IntelliJ IDEA, which turns 25 today!
• did you check out the remote debugging capability for Spring Debugger