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What changed in Spring Security 6 (Spring Boot 3)? What was removed?

WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter was removed — you define a SecurityFilterChain @Bean directly instead. antMatchers() was replaced by requestMatchers(), and authorizeRequests() by authorizeHttpRequests(). CSRF is commonly disabled for stateless REST APIs using SessionCreationPolicy.STATELESS.

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What changed in Spring Security 6 (Spring Boot 3)? What was removed?

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