Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment in This Week in Spring! And happy week-before-SpringOne! I'm so excited I could spit! As you might imagine, AI, cloud native architecture, and so much more are top-of-mind. I love AI, and all its many applications. In that spirit, let's get ChatGPT to write a little poem for us!

'Twas the week before SpringOne, and all through Las Vegas, Java devs were arriving, their excitement contagious. Spring Boot and Kotlin, all polished with care, In hopes that new features soon would be there. Workshops and sessions, each bright in their light, Promising…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud 2024.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository.

Notable Changes in the 2024.0.0 Release Train

The primary goal of the first milestone of Spring Cloud 2024.0.0 is to provide compatibility with Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1. There are no notable new features in this first milestone. We would appreciate users trying our this first milestone and reporting any issues they may notice.

The following modules were updated as part of 2024.0.0-M1:

On behalf of everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M2, 3.2.3 and 3.1.8 are generally available now.

See the release notes for more details:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.3.0-M2

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.2.3

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.1.8

These releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.9, 3.3.3 and 3.4.0-M2 respectively.

The 3.4.0-M2 version of Spring for Apache Kafka updated the Kafka client to the recently released version 3.8.0…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the releases of Spring Authorization Server 1.4.0-M1, 1.3.2 and 1.2.6.

See the 1.4.0-M1, 1.3.2 and 1.2.6 release notes for complete details.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the Getting Started chapter of the reference documentation and the samples to become familiar with setup and configuration.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.3.2, 6.2.6, and 5.8.14 are available now. In all cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

To learn more, please visit the 6.3.2, 6.2.6, and 5.8.14 release summaries.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.9 and 1.1.3 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.9 and 3.3.3.

These patch releases includes numerous dependency upgrades.

Please see the release notes (1.0.9 and 1.1.3) for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

The release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.0-M2 release.

This release includes numerous enhancements, documentation improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades.

Notable new features include:

• Custom Object Mapper - you can provide your own Jackson ObjectMapper that Pulsar will use when producing and consuming JSON messages (more details)

• Default Tenant and Namespace - you can specify a default tenant and/or namespace to use when producing or consuming messages against a non-fully-qualified topic URL (more details)

• Updates to next minor version of Spring, Reactor, and Micrometer libraries

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Spring AI now supports NVIDIA's Large Language Model API, offering integration with a wide range of models. By leveraging NVIDIA's OpenAI-compatible API, Spring AI allows developers to use NVIDIA's LLMs through the familiar Spring AI API.

We'll explore how to configure and use the Spring AI OpenAI chat client to connect with NVIDIA LLM API.

• The demo application code is available in the nvidia-llm GitHub repository.
• The SpringAI / NVIDIA integration documentation.

Prerequisite

• Create NVIDIA account with sufficient credits.
• Select your preferred LLM model from NVIDIA's offerings. Like the meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct in the screenshot below.
• From the model's page, obtain the API key for your chosen model.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2024.0.3 and 2023.1.9 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.3.3, respective 3.2.9 will pick up the above releases by next week.

2024.0.3

• Spring Data Commons 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - …