The Spring AI engineering team has announced the release of Spring AI 2.0.0-RC2, which is now available from Maven Central. This release includes important improvements, stability enhancements, and bug fixes, making it a significant update for users. The focus of this release is on key improvements, such as making Anthropic and OpenAI HTTP clients configurable and restoring compatibility with Spring Framework versions less than 7.0.4. The release also includes bug fixes, including fixes for BedrockProxyChatModel model option handling and OllamaChatModel issues. Additionally, the release addresses problems with replay reasoning content in OpenAI assistant history and options replacing instead of merging in ChatModel. The Spring AI team has also ensured that ToolCallingAdvisor is always auto-registered to support runtime-injected tools. The complete release notes for Spring AI 2.0.0-RC2 are available for users to review. The Spring AI team will continue to focus on improving AI application development with Spring Boot, with upcoming versions building on the foundations established in this release. Users can stay up to date with the latest developments and contribute to the project by visiting the GitHub repository or joining the discussion in the community channels. The project page, GitHub repository, and documentation for Spring AI 2.0.0-RC2 are all available as resources for users.