On behalf of the Spring Data engineering team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Data 2024.0 from Maven Central! This release comes with major driver upgrades and refinements in individual store modules.

A major enhancement is support for Value Expressions in mapping and @Value (constructor) annotations. Value Expressions support obtaining values from Configuration Properties in addition to SpEL expressions.

Spring Data MongoDB 2024.0 has upgraded its MongoDB driver dependency compatibility to MongoDB driver 5. You can still downgrade to an older 4.x (such as 4.11…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.7, 6.0.20 and 5.3.35 are available now:

• Spring Framework 6.1.7 ships with 54 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.6, to be released next week.
• Spring Framework 6.0.20 ships with 20 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.1.12, to be released next week.
• Spring Framework 5.3.35 ships with 12 fixes and documentation improvements.

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We are happy to announce the availability of the second milestone of Spring Framework 6.2.

In case you missed it, we previously kicked off this milestone phase with 6.2.0-M1 and talked about the "little improvements" we worked on and how bean overriding in tests has evolved.

Spring Framework 6.2.0-M2 is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now, with over 30 improvements and new features.

UrlHandlerFilter for trailing slash match

With the tailing slash match option being deprecated, the Spring community requested a way to gracefully handle this transition period in large applications. We have just introduced the new UrlHandlerFilter…

Hi, Spring and Testcontainers fans! In this interview, I talk to Oleg Šelajev

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

This week's highlights in the Spring ecosystem emphasize the ongoing advancements and applications of Spring AI. The discussions range from exploring the impressive VectorStore abstraction and enhanced structured output support to practical integrations with platforms like Azure OpenAI and Neo4J. There are several posts this week about how Spring AI can power intelligent applications. The celebration of Spring Boot's 10th anniversary with its cofounders and a historical reflection by Spring founder Rod Johnson further…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to cofounders Phil Webb and Dr. David Syer, on the occassion of the 10th Anniversary of Spring Boot

UPDATE: (04.06.2024) Adde snippets for using structured output with the new, fluent ChatClient API .

UPDATE: (17.05.2024) Generic Types support for BeanOutputConverter added.

Science works with chunks and bits and pieces of things with the continuity presumed, and Art works only with the continuities of things with the chunks and bits and pieces presumed. - Robert M. Pirsig

The ability of LLMs to produce structured outputs is important for downstream applications that rely on reliably parsing output values. Developers want to quickly turn results from an AI model into data types, such as…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the amazing support for vector databases in Spring AI.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another amazing installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in bellisima Rome, Italy, where I've just spent time in some fun meetings, and now I'm off to lovely London, UK, for Devoxx UK 2024. It's going to be amazing. If you're there, don't hesitate to say hi! I've got to run for a plane so let's make this week's installment quick!

• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Zenika CEO Carl Azoury
• Spring Tools 4.22.1 released
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at the humble Spring bean, and you should too!
• Interesting! Somebody is refactoring and reworking a Spring AI demo I did and it's fun to watch
• Baeldung is at it again with a post that'll surely be the first search result for some search you'll make soon enough: setting the default time zone in a Spring Boot application
• Four Cool Things about Spring AI
• …