Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend and colleague Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the amazing awesome implications of passkeys in a Spring Security application.

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.1.11, 3.2.4 and 3.3.0-M1 has been released and are now available from Maven Central and Milestone Repo respectively.

Please see the release notes 3.1.11, release notes 3.2.4 and release notes 3.3.0-M1 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 93 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Auto-configure support for Embedded Web Server SSL with SNI
• Support for Prometheus Client 1.x
• Completion of our documentation migration to Antora

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and…

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.2 RC1. Its most important new features are:

• Dependency upgrades to Spring Boot 3.3 RC1, ArchUnit 1.3, and jMolecules 2023.1.3
• Optimized starters to avoid them being included in the packaged JAR
• Improved reference documentation

For more details check out the full change log and the reference documentation.

The release of a first release candidate is a perfect opportunity to give the new version a try. We're looking forward to your feedback and aim for a GA release at the end of May, immediately following Spring Boot 3.3.

UPDATE 20.07.2024 : Update Message API hierarchy diagram and update the model names supporting multimodality

UPDATE 02.06.2024 : Add an additional code snippet showing how to use the new ChatClient API.

Humans process knowledge, simultaneously across multiple modes of data inputs. The way we learn, our experiences are all multimodal. We don't have just vision, just audio and just text.

These foundational principles of learning were articulated by the father of modern education John Amos Comenius, in his work, "Orbis Sensualium Pictus", dating back to 1658.

"All things that are naturally connected ought to be taught in combination"

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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, more than 20 incredible years in the making, Spring founders Rod Johnson (@springrod) and Juergen Hoeller (@springjuergen) discuss Spring since its 1.0 release in 2004

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 34 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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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…