Spring Data 2024.0 goes GA
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
…
Spring Data 2023.1.6 and 2023.0.12 released
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2023.1.6
and 2023.0.12
service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.
The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.2.6
, respective 3.1.12
will pick up the above releases by next week.
2023.1.6
- Spring Data Commons
3.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog - Spring Data JPA
3.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog - Spring Data KeyValue
3.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog - Spring Data Neo4j
7.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog - Spring Data for Apache Cassandra
4.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog - Spring Data MongoDB
4.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog - Spring Data LDAP
3.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog - Spring Data REST
4.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog - Spring Data Redis
3.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog - Spring Data Elasticsearch
5.2.6
- Javadoc - Documentation - …
Spring Framework 6.2.0-M2 available now
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
…
A Bootiful Podcast: Oleg Šelajev, Docker and Testcontainers legend
Hi, Spring and Testcontainers fans! In this interview, I talk to Oleg Šelajev
Spring Framework 6.1.7, 6.0.20 and 5.3.35 available now
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.
This Week in Spring - May 14th, 2024
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…
A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot cofounders Phil Webb and Dr. David Syer on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0
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
Spring AI - Structured Output
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 JSON, XML or Java Classes, that can be passed to other functions and methods in their applications.
The Spring AI Structured Output Converters
help to convert the LLM output into a structured format.
As shown in the following diagram, this approach operates…
Spring Tips: Vector Databases with Spring AI
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the amazing support for vector databases in Spring AI.