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= What's New in Spring Security 6.0

Spring Security 6.0 provides a number of new features.
Below are the highlights of the release.

== Breaking Changes

* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/10556[gh-10556] - Remove EOL OpenSaml 3 Support.
Use the OpenSaml 4 Support instead.
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/8980[gh-8980] - Remove unsafe/deprecated `Encryptors.querableText(CharSequence,CharSequence)`.
Instead use data storage to encrypt values.
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11520[gh-11520] - Remember Me uses SHA256 by default
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/8819 - Move filters to web package
Reorganize imports
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/7349 - Move filter and token to appropriate packages
Reorganize imports
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11026[gh-11026] - Use `RequestAttributeSecurityContextRepository` instead of `NullSecurityContextRepository`
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/11887[gh-11827] - Change default authority for `oauth2Login()`
* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/10347[gh-10347] - Remove `UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken` check in `BasicAuthenticationFilter`