Spring Security 4.1.0.RC1 Released

Contributions

Without the community we couldn't be the successful project we are today. I'd like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback. A special thanks to the following people who provided pull requests for this release:

#199 - Fix a broken link to a blog posting on the Spring website Thanks Yi EungJun

#230 - Fix formatting error in documentation Thanks Martin Macko

#248 - SEC-3175: Migrate to assertj Thanks Billy Korando

#257 - Use XML Namespace for PreAuth Samples Thanks Michael Osipov

#258 - SEC-2746: Fix keys in messages bundle Thanks Karol Lewandowski

#259 - Rename HeaderWriter loop variable name Thanks bax1989

#3699 - Fix ` in documentation Thanks drdamour

#3700 - Allow override of SwitchUserFilter.ROLE_PREVIOUS_ADMINISTRATOR Thanks Andrei Ivanov

#3707 - HTTP Public Key Pinning Thanks Tim Ysewyn

#3717 - Add SCryptPasswordEncoder Thanks Shazin Sadakath

#3724 - Fix Javadoc on ProviderManager.authenticate Thanks hmolsen

#3729 - ForwardAuthenticationFailureHandler & ForwardAuthenticationSuccessHandler Thanks Shazin Sadakath

#3731 - Sort ObjectPostProcessors prior to invoking them Thanks Wallace Wadge

#3734 - Upgrade Apache Commons Collections to v3.2.2 Thanks Justine Tunney

#3740 - Forward after authentication attempt configuration support (#3728) Thanks Shazin Sadakath

#3749 - Add RememberMeConfigurer set domain Thanks Eddú Meléndez Gonzales

#3750 - Upgrade to Sonarqube plugin Thanks Eddú Meléndez Gonzales

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe (our latest full time Spring Security team member) @joe_grandja on Twitter.

Of course the best feedback comes in the form of contributions.