On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.12, 6.0.23 and 5.3.39 are available now. While 5.3.38 has also been released, it got superseded by 5.3.39.

• Spring Framework 6.1.12 ships with 43 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.9 and Spring Boot 3.3.3, to be released next week.
• Spring Framework 6.0.23 ships with 14 fixes and documentation improvements.
• Spring Framework 5.3.39 ships with 1 fixes plus the 12 fixes and documentation improvements of 5.3.38.

Please note that OSS support for 5.3.x and 6.0.x ends on August 31, 2024. As such, 5.3.39 and 6.0.23 are meant to be the last OSS releases. Commercial support is available…

We are happy to announce the availability of the seventh milestone of Spring Framework 6.2. We shipped quite a few features since the last M6 release.

Spring Framework 6.2.0-M7 is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now, check out the detailed changelog for this version.

Core and Native Support

This release contains various improvements in the core of the framework, including to the cache abstraction's error handling. It adds a flexible multi-unit format to the previously introduced Duration parsing/printing support.

On the topic of Native Support, it is now possible to ignore bean registration during AOT processing thanks to a newly introduced attribute. Beans registered with the Kotlin DSL…

The Spring Framework has released versions 5.3.39, 6.0.23, and 6.1.12 that contain fixes for CVE-2024-38809, DoS via conditional HTTP requests.

The 5.3.39 release contains an additional fix for CVE-2024-38808, DoS via SpEL expression.

Note that version 5.3.39 has fixes for both CVEs. Version 5.3.38 was released earlier on the same day, and it contains the fix for CVE-2024-38809 but not CVE-2024-38808.

Upgrading Your Project

Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.0, or 3.1 can make use of Spring Boot Hotfix releases 2.7.21.1, 3.0.16.1, and 3.1.12.1. Releases are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday and work is well underway to prepare for the huge SpringOne event in Las Vegas in just a few short week's time! I'm elated! So, let's get this roundup on the road so I can get back to the preparation frenzy...

• Spring AI Embraces OpenAI's Structured Outputs: Enhancing JSON Response Reliability
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Dataflow, Spring Cloud Task, and Spring Batch legend Glenn Renfro
• in last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at using Spring Boot and HTMX together
• I love this: a bunch of opensource projects are working on a common set of annotations to convey nullability and null-restricted types in Java
• I love this: IntelliJ IDEA has a new feature: multi-project workspaces…

OpenAI recently introduced a powerful feature called Structured Outputs, which ensures that AI-generated responses adhere strictly to a predefined JSON schema. This feature significantly improves the reliability and usability of AI-generated content in real-world applications. Today, we're excited to announce that Spring AI (1.0.0-SNAPSHOT) has fully integrated support for OpenAI's Structured Outputs, bringing this capability to Java developers in a seamless, Spring-native way.

Following diagram shows how the new Structured Outputs feature extends the OpenAI Chat API:

Note: Spring AI already provides a powerful, Model-agnostic Structured Output utilities that can be use with various AI models including the OpenAI. The OpenAI Structured Outputs feature offers an additional, consistent, but a model specific solution, currently available only to the gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini and later models.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Spring Cloud Dataflow, Spring Cloud Task, and Spring Batch legend Glenn Renfro

It's August! Egads, has that come quickly! AUGUST. The eigth month of the year, and we're almost done with the first week, in fact! It's not that I'm not grateful to be here, but, yah, wow that was quick. And, of course, the month of my all time double dutch favorite conference, SpringOne, happening August 26th, 2024! Will I see you there?

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Micrometer teammate Jonatan Ivanov
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I had special guest contributor and Spring Security lead Rob Winch
• Spring AI with Groq - a blazingly fast AI inference engine
• I love this blog from the MongoDB developer blog called Discover Your Ideal Airbnb: Implementing a Spring Boot & Atlast Search with Kotlin Sync Driver
• Spring AI enables quick delivery of Intelligent apps in javaspring-ai-enables-quick-delivery-of-intelligent-apps-in-java
• Supporting ProblemDetails in Spring
• …

Hi, Spring fans! HTMX is the progressive hypertext sensation that's sweeping the process of web app creation, and - thanks to a nice integration by Spring community legend Wim Deblauwe, it's easier than ever to use it with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf. And, it's the topic of today's installment!

#java #springboot #html #htmx #http #html5

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to observability legend Jonatan Ivanov about the latest and greatest in the wide and wonderful world of observability. (Turns out a library that's used by countless projects including and beyond the Spring ecosystem keeps quite busy!)