[[new]]
= 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.

* All new https://antora.org/[Antora] based https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/[documentation].

[[whats-new-servlet]]
== Servlet
* Core

** Introduced https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/10226[`SecurityContextChangedListener`]
** Improved https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/10279[Method Security Logging]

* Configuration

** Introduced https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/9630[`AuthorizationManager`] for method security

* SAML 2.0 Service Provider

** Added https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/9483[SAML 2.0 Single Logout Support]
** Added https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/10060[Saml2AuthenticationRequestRepository]
** Added https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/9486[`RelyingPartyRegistrationResolver`]
** Improved ``Saml2LoginConfigurer``'s handling of https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/10268[`Saml2AuthenticationTokenConverter`]


* OAuth 2.0 Login

** Added https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/10041[`Converter` for `Authentication` result]

* OAuth 2.0 Client

** Improved https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/9791[Client Credentials encoding]
** Improved https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/9779[Access Token Response parsing]
** Added https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/10155[custom grant types support] for Authorization Requests
** Introduced https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/9208[JwtEncoder]

* Testing

** Added support to https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/9737[propagate the TestSecurityContextHolder to SecurityContextHolder]

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

* OAuth 2.0 Client

** Improved https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/9791[Client Credentials encoding]
** Added https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/10131[custom headers support] for Access Token Requests
** Added https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/10269[custom response parsing] for Access Token Requests
** Added https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/10327[jwt-bearer Grant Type support] for Access Token Requests
** Added https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/10336[JWT Client Authentication support] for Access Token Requests
** Improved https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/pull/10373[Reactive OAuth 2.0 Client Documentation]