Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, brought to you with permission from the amazing Spring I/O 2024 conference event in Barcelona, Spain, I join Spring AI engineer Christian Tzolov for a keynote introducing some of the amazing new features in Spring AI.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.3.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 3.3.0 for more details.

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

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On behalf of the Spring Security team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Security Kerberos 2.1.0!

This release brings in bug fixes, version updates, and lots of compatability fixes.

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Hi, Spring fans, from London! I'm in this fabulous country doing my level-headed best to refrain from dooing Mr. Bean bits, because, honestly, if I - an avid and prolific fan of Spring and its many beans - can't be "Mr. Bean," then I'm glad Rowan Atkinson is!

I'm here for a SpringOne Tour event, and I can't wait. Friends, let's dive right into it!

• Sebastien Deleuze, Spring Framework committer and legend, has some interesting news! The GraalVM team is looking at building a WASM (Web Assembly) backend for their GraalVM native image compiler technology. I love this!
• SpringOne 2024 will be virtual! Register now!
• A freindly reminder from Netflix's Paul Bakker to switch your DGS starter dependency to leverage the DGS/Spring GraphQL integration
• Did you see the opening keynote from Spring IO 2024? It was epic! In it, we introduced the latest-and-greatest from Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Modulith, and Spring AI
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TL;DR; Download the State of Spring Survey 2024 report here!

We asked...and you answered. The State of Spring Survey 2024 walks through all of the latest trends in the Java and Spring ecosystems. Responded to by over 1400 respondents, we asked about virtual threads, testcontainers, and native compilation with GraalVM. You told us about Kubernetes, generative AI, and upgrade practices in your enterprise. The State of Spring Survey 2024 was the most comprehensive survey we have ever put out and we are pleased to be able to share the results with our community.

The report, available now at https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/state-of-spring-2024…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

This is the first GA release to use the separate Spring Functions Catalog.

Release notes are available:

• Spring Functions Catalog
• Stream Applications

We welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or Spring Functions Catalog - GitHub or Stream Applications - GitHub.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0.2 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2023.0.2 release notes for more information.

We are also pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0.7 Release Train is available today. More information can be found at https://spring.io/support .

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.2 Release Train

This release adds compatibility to Spring Boot 3.3.x as well as Spring Boot 3.2.x.

See the GitHub project for all changes made in…

We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 Milestone 1 release of Spring AI.

This release has the following new features an improvements.

ChatClient Fluent API

The fluent API provides methods to construct a Prompt, which is then passed as input to the AI model. You create a ChatClient using the ChatClient.Builder object. You can obtain an auto-configured ChatClient.Builder from Spring Boot autoconfiguration or create one programmatically.

If you're familiar with other Spring client classes like WebClient, RestClient, and JdbcClient, this will feel familiar.

Here is a simple usage example

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.21 and 3.0.16 have been released for support customers. The releases are available from https://packages.broadcom.com.

• Spring Boot 2.7.21 ships with 17 bug fixes and dependency upgrades.
• Spring Boot 3.0.16 ships with 40 bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

The next 2.7.x and 3.0.x releases for support customers are planned for 3 months' time.