> ## Documentation Index
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# What's New

> Release notes for Loopy

## 0.5.0 (2026-08-21)

**The distribution is repaired, and the Spring AI stack moves to GA.**

* Publish two artifacts instead of one. `loopy-0.5.0-exec.jar` is the self-contained
  executable, attached to the GitHub Release; `loopy-0.5.0.jar` on Maven Central is a plain
  library jar you can compile against. Before this, the published coordinate was a Spring Boot
  fat jar whose classes sit under `BOOT-INF/classes`, so nothing could depend on it — and no
  release had ever had a downloadable asset attached, which meant the documented download URL
  returned 404.
* Add `loopy` and `loopy.bat` launchers that locate the jar, check for Java, and apply the
  JVM flags Loopy expects. `jbang loopy@markpollack/loopy` now works for the first time.
* Move to Spring AI 2.0.0 GA with `spring-ai-agent-utils` 0.10.0 and `workflow-core` 0.10.0,
  which are a coupled set, plus Spring Boot 4.1.0 and Jackson at the suite floors. Loopy was
  the last member on a Spring AI milestone, which mattered because the AgentWorks BOM manages
  Spring AI 2.0.0.
* Stop requiring a credential to read `--help` or `--version`. Both were previously answered
  after an API-key prompt; malformed command lines are now reported without one either.
* Report the real version. `--version` was hardcoded, so every release since 0.2.0 announced
  itself as `0.1.0-SNAPSHOT`.
* Fix a startup failure when `BRAVE_API_KEY` is set without a chat model configured, pin
  `icu4j` to 77.1, and declare the snapshot repository the POM had always been missing.