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`

* OAuth 2.0 Client

** Allow configuring https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/6548[PKCE for confidential clients]

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

* OAuth 2.0 Client

** Allow configuring https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/6548[PKCE for confidential clients]