Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've had a really busy, wonderful week, as always, so let's dive right into it!

• We want you! ...to submit a talk to SpringOne 2024, in sunny Las Vegas! Hurry, the CFP closes May 3rd!
• Spring Shell 3.1.11, 3.2.4, and 3.3.0-m1 are now available
• Spring Modulith 1.2 RC1 has been released
• I love this post by prolific Spring AI contributor Christian Tzolov: Spring AI: Multimodality - Orbis Sensualium Pictus
• Spring Boot 3.3.0-RC1 is available now. That's right, RC1! Spring Boot 3.3 will soon be upon us! Now's the time to kick the tires, try the bits, etc. Remember, when Spring Boot 3.3 lands in May, Spring Boot 3.1 will no longer be supported as an open source effort! So now is the time to make sure you've migrated to the latest and greatest!
• Spring Boot 3.2.5 is available now
• Spring Security 5.8.12, 6.1.9, and 6.2.4 are available now
• Spring Security 6.3.0-RC1 is available now
• Spring Boot 3.1.11 available now
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring cofounders Dr. Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller on the occasion of the 20th anniversary since the 1.0 GA release](https://spring.io/blog/2024/04/18/a-bootiful-podcast-spring-founders-rod-johnson-and-juergen-hoeller-on-the)
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at GRPC
• Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-RC1, 1.2.4, and 1.1.7 available now
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.16, 3.1.4, and 3.2.0-RC1 available now
• Spring for GraphQL 1.3 RC1 released
• Spring Framework 6.2.0-M1: Overriding Beans in Tests
• I loved this recap of the recent Google Cloud Next event by Neo4j mad scientist and my friend, and fellow Java Champion, Michael Hunger
• Here's a nice post over on the Redis blog about how to build a RAG application with Redis and Spring AI
• The Allegro tech blog has a very nice post on their experience with microservices over the last decade