This blog post is co-authored with David Soria Parra, Christian Tzolov, and Dariusz Jędrzejczyk.

What is MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open protocol developed by Anthropic, is transforming the way AI applications connect and share context. It has garnered extensive support across AI applications, functioning as a standardized interface for Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with data sources, tools, and AI agents. Whether you're building autonomous systems that need to access databases, orchestrating complex AI workflows, or creating systems where multiple agents collaborate…

We are excited to announce the release of Spring AI 1.0.0 Milestone 6. To celebrate this release, we have created a special AI-generated music playlist to enhance your blog reading and coding experiences!

As usual, this release includes several new features and bug fixes. We have continued to focus on reviewing the codebase from a design perspective. While we have tried to make this transition smooth by deprecating methods and classes for one release cycle, there are some breaking changes we know about and potentially some that we don't, so please bear with us. See the Breaking Changes section…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2024.1.3 and 2024.0.9 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

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

2024.1.3

• Spring Data Commons 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m delighted to announce the first milestone of the 2025.0.0 release train. If you are confused how on earth a milestone of 2025.0.0 can ship after an earlier 2025.1.0 milestone, rest assured, we are too, at times. Calver versioning is based off the actual release date. 2025.0 will go GA in May while 2025.1 is planned for November. Since we started working on the major release 2025.1 last year already, we were able to ship a first milestone in January. Hopefully, this explanation helps to clear up any confusion.

This milestone ships with…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.1 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution builds for Windows now signed with correct certificate

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.28.1.RELEASE

downloads

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code and Theia, please go visit:

• Spring Tools: https://spring.io/tools/

Spring Tools 4.29.…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment, I talk to Spring legend Glenn Renfro.

TL;DR; The Spring portfolio enterprise support tier is aligning all support dates to Spring Boot and going to be extended for the last minor version of each major generation for an additional 5 years beyond the previous support arrangement providing 7 years of total support for those versions.

Upgrading is hard. We get that. Whether it be technical difficulties, prioritization of upgrades against other business priorities, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, etc. While we already offer one of the most generous and predictable support policies in the industry for open source frameworks with one…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the second milestone of the next Spring Framework generation.

If you've missed it, we now ship milestones to the usual repo.spring.io artifact repository, but also to Maven Central.

The second milestone refines the work we've devlived in 7.0.0-M1, in particular arround our null safety support using JSpecify. Check the changelog for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.17 and 6.2.3 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.17 ships with 17 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.3.9.

Spring Framework 6.2.3 ships with 60 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.3 and 3.5.0-M2.

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