spring-security/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/whats-new.adoc

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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.

[[whats-new-servlet]]
== Servlet

* Web

** Introduced xref:servlet/authentication/persistence.adoc#requestattributesecuritycontextrepository[`RequestAttributeSecurityContextRepository`]
** Introduced xref:servlet/authentication/persistence.adoc#securitycontextholderfilter[`SecurityContextHolderFilter`] - Ability to require explicit saving of the `SecurityContext`
** Added DSL support for xref:servlet/exploits/headers.adoc#servlet-headers-cross-origin-policies[Cross Origin Policies headers]

* OAuth 2.0 Client

** Allow configuring https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/6548[PKCE for confidential clients]
** Allow configuring a https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/9812[JWT assertion resolver] in `JwtBearerOAuth2AuthorizedClientProvider`
** Allow customizing claims on https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/9855[JWT client assertions]

* SAML 2.0

** Added xref:servlet/appendix/namespace/http.adoc#nsa-saml2-login[SAML 2.0 Login & Single Logout XML support]

[[whats-new-webflux]]
== WebFlux

* Web

** Allow customizing https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/10903[charset] in `ServerHttpBasicAuthenticationConverter`
** Added DSL support for xref:reactive/exploits/headers.adoc#webflux-headers-cross-origin-policies[Cross Origin Policies headers]

* OAuth 2.0 Client

** Allow configuring https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/6548[PKCE for confidential clients]
** Allow configuring a https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/9812[JWT assertion resolver] in `JwtBearerReactiveOAuth2AuthorizedClientProvider`