On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.13 and 2.0.1 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The 1.2.13 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.13 and 3.5.9 releases. The 2.0.1 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 4.0.1 release.

Please see the release notes (1.2.13 and 2.0.1) for more details.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2024.0.3 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2024.0.3 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2024.0.3 Release Train

This release uses Spring Boot 3.4.12.

A complete list of issues resolved in this release can be found in the GitHub project 2024.0.3.

This is the final open source release of the Spring Cloud 2024.0.x release train. Open source support ends at the end of December 2025.

Spring Cloud…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.1.1, 2025.0.7 and 2024.1.13 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades and bug fixes.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

End of Open Source support for Spring Data 2024.1.x (3.3.x generation)

Spring Data 2024.1.13 marks the end of open source support for Spring Data 2024.1.x (used by Spring Boot 3.3.x). Please upgrade to Spring Data 2025.1.x or 2025.0.x at your earliest convenience. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Data 2024.1.x…

On behalf of the Spring AI engineering team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring AI 2.0.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

Spring AI 2.0.0-M1 represents the first milestone of the 2.x series, built on Spring Boot 4.0 and Spring Framework 7.0 with a Jakarta EE 11 baseline. This major platform upgrade, contributed by Dmitry Bedrin with Paul Bakker from Netflix (#4774), aligns Spring AI with the latest Spring ecosystem.

Release Summary

This release includes 67 improvements, bug fixes, and documentation updates. Key focus areas include:

• Improvements: 25 enhancements to expand capabilities and functionality
• Stability: 7 bug fixes addressing community-reported issues
• Documentation: 32 improvements to help developers
• Security: 3 dependency upgrades for enhanced security
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 7.0.2 is available now.

Spring Framework 7.0.2 ships with 74 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 4.0.1.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.2.15 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.2.15 ships with 31 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.13 and 3.5.9.

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On behalf of the tools team, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the Spring Tools 5.0. This new major release comes with several new features and updates:

• Spring Tools 5 supports Spring Framework 7, Spring Boot 4, Spring Data 2025.1, and more: including extensive support for the new API versioning, functional bean registration, JSpecify checks, and AOT generated data repositories

• Spring Tools is ready for the AI era of coding: it supports and integrates with Cursor, Copilot for Visual Studio Code as well as Copilot for Eclipse

• A completely new logical project structure view around stereotypes: support for pre-defined and custom stereotypes as well as grouping, giving you a unique Spring specific perspective of your project - available in Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Eclipse

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On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is now available on Maven Central!

What's new?

This second milestone release continues our efforts toward a modern version of Spring Shell, aligned with the rest of the Spring portfolio.

This milestone includes several bug fixes and improvements based on the feedback we received after the 4.0.0-M1 release.

Major changes include:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 GA and Spring Boot 4.0 GA
• Migrate nullability annotations and checks to jSpecify
• Improve project modularity to streamline dependencies
• Improve command programming model and APIs
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On behalf of the Spring AI team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Spring AI 1.1.1!

This release brings 13 new features, 16 bug fixes, and important dependency updates including security patches. Thanks to the community contributors who helped make this release possible.

Release Summary

Spring AI 1.1.1 includes:

• 13 new features expanding capabilities across model providers
• 16 bug fixes for improved stability
• 3 documentation improvements
• 5 dependency upgrades including 2 CVE security fixes

(GitHub Release)

OpenAI Java SDK Integration

Thanks to Julien Dubois (@jdubois) from Microsoft…