** Introduced xref:servlet/authentication/persistence.adoc#securitycontextholderfilter[`SecurityContextHolderFilter`] - Ability to require explicit saving of the `SecurityContext`
* OAuth 2.0 Client
** Allow configuring https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/6548[PKCE for confidential clients]
** Allow configuring a https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/9812[JWT assertion resolver] in `JwtBearerOAuth2AuthorizedClientProvider`
** Allow configuring a https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/9812[JWT assertion resolver] in `JwtBearerReactiveOAuth2AuthorizedClientProvider`