Spring AI 2.0.0-RC2 Available Now

Releases | Ilayaperumal Gopinathan | June 09, 2026 | 1 min read | ...

On behalf of the Spring AI engineering team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring AI 2.0.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release delivers important improvements, stability enhancements, and bug fixes.

Release Summary

This release includes new features, bug fixes, and documentation updates. See the complete release notes: 2.0.0-RC2

The focus of this release includes:

Key Improvements:

  • Make Anthropic and OpenAI HTTP clients configurable.
  • Restore compatibility with Spring Framework < 7.0.4.

Key Bug Fixes:

  • Fix BedrockProxyChatModel model option handling and related dependency issues.
  • Fix OllamaChatModel dropping the think field in multi-turn conversation history.
  • Replay reasoning_content in OpenAI assistant history.
  • Restore options replacing instead of merging in ChatModel.
  • Always auto-register ToolCallingAdvisor to support runtime-injected tools.

View complete release notes →

What's Next

The Spring AI team continues to focus on improving AI application development with Spring Boot. Based on the momentum from this release, upcoming versions will build on these foundations with enhanced capabilities and developer experience improvements.

For the latest updates and to contribute to the project, visit our GitHub repository or join the discussion in our community channels.

Resources

Project Page | GitHub | Issues

Documentation: 2.0.0-RC2 Docs

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