What’s New in Spring Security 4.1

What’s New in Spring Security 4.1

There were 100+ issues fixed in Spring Security 4.1. You can find the highlights below:

• Path Variables in Web Security Expressions
• Content Security Policy (CSP)
• HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP)
• Added ForwardAuthenticationFailureHandler & ForwardAuthenticationSuccessHandler
• SCrypt support with SCryptPasswordEncoder
• Meta Annotation Support
• Test Meta Annotations
• Method Security Meta Annotations
• @WithAnonymousUser
• @WithUserDetails allows specifying the UserDetailsService bean name
• Simplified UserDetailsService Java Configuration
• Simplified AuthenticationProvider Java Configuration
• Moved to GitHub issues