Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.22.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Add Spring Boot Starters... InlayHint in Spring Boot projects pom.xml next to <dependencies> tag (VSCode only at the moment)
• (Spring Boot) early TestJars support #1197
• (Eclipse) fixed: Spring Tool Suite 17 with maven no longer copies application.properties file to the target folder #929

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-03 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts…

We are happy to announce the milestone 0.8.1 release of Spring AI. Thanks for all the community contributions and great discussion on GitHub issues.

This release has the following new features and improvements.

Google Gemini

Google recently released its Gemini AI Model. It has many exciting features and functionalities; check their release blog for an overview.

Features supported in Spring AI are:

• One of Gemini's marquee features is its multimodal support. This lets you chat with the model using images, videos, and text. For example, you can send the model a photo of a plate of cookies and ask it to give you a recipe for those cookies. Spring AI supports this feature; read more about it here and take a look at the sample application that showcases many Gemini features.
• Streaming and Non-Streaming chat clients
• Function Calling
• Native compilation of Gemini applications
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On behalf of the Spring team, we are excited to showcase all of the Spring projects that have been released this February.

Spring OSS Releases

The table below contains a list of all the open source projects and their versions that have been released. Each project listed will link to their version details.

On behalf of Spring Cloud Dataflow team, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Spring Functions Catalog. The project's primary focus is to provide a set of standalone Java functions that can be useful in the end-user applications as-is. All the published artifacts are, essentially, auto-configurations for some specific Supplier, Function or Consumer.

We have just released 5.0.0-M1 into https://repo.spring.io/milestone repository, and all you need is to include this BOM into your Gradle (or Maven) configuration:

org.springframework.cloud.fn:spring-function-dependencies:5.0.0-M1

and choose…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.1.9 and 3.2.2 has been released and are now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 3.1.9 and release notes 3.2.2 for more details.

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

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

We are happy to announce the first milestone release of Spring AI, version 0.8.0. A big thanks to the over 50 community members and employees in other companies who have contributed to the project. Your work is very much appreciated!

The Spring AI project was founded based on the realization that creating AI applications was no longer the sole domain of Machine Learning or AI Specialists, who typically use Python. With the meteoric rise in popularity of ChatGPT, which provides a simple Web API to access pre-trained models, creating compelling AI applications has become accessible to software…

I'm excited to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.0.6, 1.1.3 and 1.2 M2. The milestone release adds indexes to the event publication registry database tables, improves the execution of the database initialization and moves off the legacy Structurizr diagram generation. On top of that we ship bug fixes in the event externalization, observability infrastructure and event publication registry APIs that all have been back-ported into the service releases.

More details about what went into which release can be found in the change logs linked above.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.0-M2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 110 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Service Connection support for Apache ActiveMQ Artemis, ActiveMQ Classic, and LDAP
• Support for Bitnami container images with Docker Compose
• A @BatchTransactionManager to make it easier to configure Spring Batch to use a custom transaction manager
• HttpClient based Zipkin sender

Please see the release notes for more details…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 46 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 or chat with the community on Gitter.

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