On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the release candidate of Spring Security 6.3 is released.

The 6.3 release brings several compelling features including

• Long-term JDK serialization backward compatibility
• New method security annotations and capabilities
• Compromised password checking, and
• OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange support

You can read more about each of these in the What's New section of the 6.3 documentation and also see the exhaustive list of of features across the 6.3 release in the release pages for 6.3.0-M1, 6.3.0-M2, 6.3.0-M3, and 6.3.0-RC1.