We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 3.0.2.

This is a minor bugfix release. Please see the changelog for a list of issues which have been addressed.

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We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 3.0.1.

This is a minor bugfix release, following on from the recent 3.0.0 release. Please see the changelog for a list of issues which have been addressed.

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We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 3.0.0.

Thanks to everyone in the community who has helped out by testing the milestone and release candidate versions and providing feedback.

Check out the project website for a list of supported features, and also the release announcement in the community forum for information on changes which may affect you if you are upgrading.

Look out for compatible releases of Spring Security Extensions projects (such as our Kerberos support) in the new year.

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We're pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Security 3.0 is now available for download. The release is also available through the Maven milestone repository at http://maven.springframework.org/milestone. As with Spring 3.0, this is the first release which requires a minimum JDK 1.5 to run and also require Spring 3.0, so you should get hold of the Spring 3.0.0.M3 release if you aren't already using it. So what's new and what has changed in this release?

Expression–Based Access Control

This release is the first to include a preview of our Spring-EL based authorization support. You can now use expressions both in method annotations and for web security. This opens up many new possibilities when compared to the familiar attributes and voter–based mechanism. A simple example will probably be a good start. Here's one for a web application, using the security namespace:

  <http use-expressions="true">
     <intercept-url pattern="/secure/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_SUPERVISOR') and hasIpAddress…

We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 2.0.4.

This release contains minor bugfixes and improvements. There are also some changes to the security namespace so you should update to the new 2.0.4 schema file if necessary. There are also some documentation updates, including two new reference appendices in the manual - one describing the database schema used within Spring Security and one describing the elements and attributes in the namespace and how they map to underlying implementation classes.

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Spring Security 2.0.2 is now available.

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Spring Security 2.0.2 is mainly a bugfix release and upgrading is recommended for users of earlier versions. There are also some minor extensions to the security namespace to support additional configuration options requested by the community.