On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the release candidate milestone for the final Spring Security 6 minor release.

Among a number of feature enhancements, there are some that we'd love your attention on as we prepare them for general availability:

Core

• Complete Deprecation of ConfigAttribute, SecurityConfig, and other Access API components.

Specifically, please speak up if you are using any of the ACL Access components that were deprecated.

OAuth 2.0

• Further refinements to DPoP support - #16937, #16921, and #16900

SAML 2.0

• Simplified SAML 2.0 Response validation (docs), Assertion validation (docs), and Authentication conversion (docs)
• A RelayState-based Authentication Request Repository - #14793
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the third milestone of the next Spring Security 6 minor release.

Among a number of feature enhancements, there are some that we'd love your attention on as we prepare them for general availability:

• OAuth 2.0 Access Token JWT Profile Support (RFC 9068) - Reference
• ConfigAttribute deprecation, including the addition of redirectToHttps - #16667
• Support for SecurityContext Reactive Context Propagation - #16665

Please check the changelog for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.3.8 and 6.4.4 are out! In all cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

Importantly, these releases address CVE-2025-22223 and CVE-2025-22228.

To learn more, please visit the 6.3.8 and 6.4.4 release summaries.

Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2 will be able to update to Spring Boot 2.7.24.1, 3.0.19.1, 3.1.15.1, or 3.2.13.1 respectively to receive the corresponding Security releases 5.7.16, 6.0.16, 6.1.14, and 6.2.10. These Security versions are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the second milestone of the next Spring Security 6 minor release.

Among a number of feature enhancements, there are some that we'd love your attention on as we prepare them for general availability:

• OAuth 2.0 Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession (DPoP) support - #16574
• Improvements to One-Time Login, WebAuthn, and Method Security

Please check the changelog for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.3.7 and 6.4.3 are out! In all cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

To learn more, please visit the 6.3.7 and 6.4.3 release summaries.

Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2 will be able to update to Spring Boot 2.7.24, 3.0.19, 3.1.15, or 3.2.13 respectively to receive the corresponding Security releases 5.7.15, 6.0.15, 6.1.13, and 6.2.9. These Security versions are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription…

On behalf of the Spring Security team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Security 6.4.0 from Maven Central!

The 6.4 release brings several compelling features including:

• Support for Passkeys and One-Time Tokens
• Simplified OAuth 2.0 Configuration
• Refreshable SAML 2.0 Asserting Parties, and
• New method security annotations and capabilities

To find out more about what’s new, see the what's new section of the documentation.

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4 GA release. We'd like to hear from you…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring LDAP 2.4.4 and 3.2.8 are out! In both cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

Importantly, these release addresses CVE-2024-38829.

To learn more, please visit the 2.4.4 and 3.2.8 release summaries.

Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.0, or 3.1 can update to Spring Boot 2.7.22.5, 3.0.17.5, or 3.1.13.5 respectively to receive the corresponding LDAP releases 2.4.4, 3.0.10, and 3.1.8. These hotfix versions are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.2.8 and 6.3.5 are out! In all cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

Importantly, these releases address CVE-2024-38827.

To learn more, please visit the 6.2.8 and 6.3.5 release summaries.

Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.0, or 3.1 can update to Spring Boot 2.7.22.5, 3.0.17.5, or 3.1.13.5 respectively to receive the corresponding Security releases 5.7.14, 6.0.14, and 6.1.12. These hotfix versions are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription…

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.2.4, 6.1.9, and 5.8.12 are available now. In all cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

To learn more, please visit the 6.2.4, 6.1.9, and 5.8.12 release summaries.

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