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= What's New in Spring Security 7.0

Spring Security 7.0 provides a number of new features.
Below are the highlights of the release, or you can view https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/releases[the release notes] for a detailed listing of each feature and bug fix.

== Removals

Being a major release, there are a number of deprecated APIs that are removed in Spring Security 7.
Each section that follows will indicate the more notable removals as well as the new features in that module

== Core

* Removed `AuthorizationManager#check` in favor of `AuthorizationManager#authorize`

== Config

* Removed `and()` from the `HttpSecurity` DSL in favor of using the lambda methods
* Removed `authorizeRequests` in favor of `authorizeHttpRequests`
* Simplified expression migration for `authorizeRequests`
* Added support for SPA-based CSRF configuration:

Java::
+
[source,java,role="primary"]
----
http.csrf((csrf) -> csrf.spa());
----

== Data

* Added support to Authorized objects for Spring Data types

== LDAP

* Removed `ApacheDsContainer` and related Apache DS support in favor of UnboundID

== OAuth 2.0

* Removed support for password grant
* Added OAuth2 Support for xref:features/integrations/rest/http-interface.adoc[HTTP Interface Integration]
* Added support for custom `JwkSource` in `NimbusJwtDecoder`, allowing usage of Nimbus's `JwkSourceBuilder` API
* Added builder for `NimbusJwtEncoder`, supports specifying an EC or RSA key pair or a secret key

== SAML 2.0

* Removed API methods based on `AssertingPartyDetails` class in favor of `AssertingPartyMetadata` interface
* Removed GET request support from `Saml2AuthenticationTokenConverter`
* Added JDBC-based `AssertingPartyMetadataRepository`
* Made so that SLO still returns `<saml2:LogoutResponse>` even when validation fails

== Web

* Removed `MvcRequestMatcher` and `AntPathRequestMatcher` in favor of `PathPatternRequestMatcher`
* Added javadoc:org.springframework.security.web.authentication.preauth.x509.SubjectX500PrincipalExtractor[]
* Added support for propagating exceptions in Authorized proxies through Spring MVC controllers
* Added support to Authorized objects for Spring MVC types