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= What's New in Spring Security 6.0

Spring Security 6.0 provides a number of new features.
Below are the highlights of the release.

== Baseline Changes

* Spring Security 6 requires JDK 17

== Breaking Changes

* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/10556[gh-10556] - Remove EOL OpenSaml 3 Support.
Use the OpenSaml 4 Support instead.
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/8980[gh-8980] - Remove unsafe/deprecated `Encryptors.querableText(CharSequence,CharSequence)`.
Instead use data storage to encrypt values.
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11520[gh-11520] - Remember Me uses SHA256 by default
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/8819[gh-8819] - Move filters to web package
Reorganize imports
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/7349[gh-7349] - Move filter and token to appropriate packages
Reorganize imports
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11026[gh-11026] - Use `RequestAttributeSecurityContextRepository` instead of `NullSecurityContextRepository`
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/11887[gh-11827] - Change default authority for `oauth2Login()`
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/10347[gh-10347] - Remove `UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken` check in `BasicAuthenticationFilter`
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/11923[gh-11923] - Remove `WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter`.
Instead, create a https://spring.io/blog/2022/02/21/spring-security-without-the-websecurityconfigureradapter[SecurityFilterChain bean].
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11899[gh-11899] - Use `MvcRequestMatcher` by default if Spring MVC is present.
You can configure a different `RequestMatcher` by using the https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/appendix/namespace/http.html#nsa-http-attributes[request-matcher attribute from <http>].
* Change use-authorization-manager="true" to default
If the application uses `use-expressions="true"` or `access-decision-manager-ref` switch to `use-expressions="false"` or `authorization-manager-ref`, respectively.
If application relies on the implicit `<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="permitAll"/>`, this is no longer implicit and needs to be specified.
Or use `use-authorization-manager="false"`
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11939[gh-11939] - Remove deprecated `antMatchers`, `mvcMatchers`, `regexMatchers` helper methods from Java Configuration.
Instead, use `requestMatchers` or `HttpSecurity#securityMatchers`.
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11985[gh-11985] - Remove deprecated constructors in `Argon2PasswordEncoder`, `SCryptPasswordEncoder` and `Pbkdf2PasswordEncoder`.
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11960[gh-11960] - Default to Xor CSRF protection for xref:servlet/exploits/csrf.adoc#servlet-csrf-configure-request-handler[servlet] and xref:reactive/exploits/csrf.adoc#webflux-csrf-configure-request-handler[reactive]
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/12019[gh-12019] - Remove deprecated method `setTokenFromMultipartDataEnabled` from `CsrfWebFilter`
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/12020[gh-12020] - Remove deprecated method `tokenFromMultipartDataEnabled` from Java Configuration
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/9429[gh-9429] - `Authentication(Web)Filter` rethrows `AuthenticationServiceException`s
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11027[gh-11027], https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11466[gh-11466] - Authorization on every dispatcher type
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11110[gh-11110] - Require explicit session saves by default
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11057[gh-11057] - Remove `MessageSourceAware` from `ExceptionTranslationWebFilter`
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/12022[gh-12202] - Remove OAuth deprecations
* Remove `Converter` constructors from `Saml2MetadataFilter` and `Saml2AuthenticationTokenConverter`
* Remove `Saml2AuthenticationRequestContextResolver` and `Saml2AuthenticationRequestFactory`
* Remove `Saml2AuthenticationToken(String, String, String, String, List)
* Remove `RelyingPartyRegistration.ProviderDetails`
* Remove `OpenSamlAuthenticationProvider`

* Remove SAML deprecations

== Core

* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11446[gh-11446] - Add native image support for `@PreAuthorize`
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11737[gh-11737] - Add native image support for `@PostAuthorize`
* xref:servlet/integrations/observability.adoc[Instrumentation] of `AuthenticationManager`, `AuthorizationManager`, and `FilterChainProxy`
* xref:reactive/integrations/observability.adoc[Instrumentation] of `ReactiveAuthenticationManager`, `ReactiveAuthorizationManager`, and `WebFilterChainProxy`

== LDAP

* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/9276[gh-9276] - LdapAuthoritiesPopulator is post-processed

== Web

* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11432[gh-11432] - `CookieServerCsrfTokenRepository` supports maxage
