This Week in Spring - October 22nd, 2024

This week in Spring, we have several updates and releases. First, Spring AI teammate and community member Thomas Vitale has written an article on leveraging the power of 45,000 free Hugging Face models with Spring AI and Ollama. Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.0-RC1 and 1.0.11 and 1.1.5 are now available. Spring Security 6.4.0-RC1, 6.3.4, 6.2.7, and 5.8.15 have been released. Spring REST Docs 3.0.2 is also out, along with Spring Data 2024.1.0-RC1, 2024.0.5, and 2023.1.11. Spring Tools 4.26.0 has been released, and there are new CVEs for Spring Framework. Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC2 and 6.1.14 are available now. In the latest A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Oracle Developer Advocate Andres Aalmiray. Nicolas Frankel wrote an article on Vaadin, a server-side AJAX framework. Maciej Walkowiak shared a helpful guide on domain-driven design aggregates. Siva from Jetbrains updated his Spring Modulith example application to include Thymeleaf and HTMX. IntelliJ IDEA now offers better GraalVM native image debugging and derived method generation for Spring Data repositories. Stephen Janssen created a Spring Boot starter for running Llama3.java, and Sergi Almar shared a post on creating an easy RAG system with Spring AI.