Spring AI M7 is coming soon, with a planned release on Thursday. To prepare, users should try upgrading their application to the new M7 using the -SNAPSHOT builds. The coordinates for the various starters have been reworked, so updates are necessary to avoid breaking changes. The documentation provides good information on the necessary updates. Model starters, vector store starters, and MCP starters have new coordinates, which are explained in the text. The Spring AI auto-configuration has changed to individual auto-configuration artifacts per model, vector store, and other components to minimize version conflicts. This change helps avoid pulling in unnecessary dependencies and reduces the risk of version conflicts in applications. In other news, Spring Cloud 2025.0.0-M3 has been updated, and several Spring Cloud Config versions have been released, including fixes for CVE-2025-22232. Additionally, Spring gRPC 0.6.0 is available, and there are several interesting blog posts and videos on Spring AI and related topics. Finally, James Ward is this week's podcast guest, and there are other notable projects and announcements mentioned in the text.