What’s New in Spring Security 5.6

Spring Security 5.6 provides a number of new features. Below are the highlights of the release.

Servlet

Configuration
- Introduced AuthorizationManager for method security
SAML 2.0 Service Provider
- Added SAML 2.0 Single Logout Support
- Added Saml2AuthenticationRequestRepository
OAuth 2.0 Login
- Added Converter for Authentication result
OAuth 2.0 Client
- Improved client credentials encoding
- Improved access token response parsing
- Added custom grant types support for authorization requests