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= What's New in Spring Security 5.7

Spring Security 5.7 provides a number of new features.
Below are the highlights of the release.

* xref:servlet/authentication/persistence.adoc#requestattributesecuritycontextrepository[`RequestAttributeSecurityContextRepository`]
* xref:servlet/authentication/persistence.adoc#securitycontextholderfilter[`SecurityContextHolderFilter`] - Ability to require explicit saving of the `SecurityContext`.
