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Spring Security

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= Spring Security

Spring Security provides security services for the https://docs.spring.io[Spring IO Platform]. Spring Security 6.0 requires Spring 6.0 as a minimum and also requires Java 17.

For a detailed list of features and access to the latest release, please visit https://spring.io/projects[Spring projects].

== Code of Conduct Please see our https://github.com/spring-projects/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md[code of conduct]

== Downloading Artifacts See https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/reference/html5/#getting[Getting Spring Security] for how to obtain Spring Security.

== Documentation Be sure to read the https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/[Spring Security Reference]. Extensive JavaDoc for the Spring Security code is also available in the https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/api/[Spring Security API Documentation].

== Quick Start See https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/reference/html5/#servlet-hello[Hello Spring Security] to get started with a "Hello, World" application.

== Building from Source Spring Security uses a https://gradle.org[Gradle]-based build system. In the instructions below, https://vimeo.com/34436402[./gradlew] is invoked from the root of the source tree and serves as a cross-platform, self-contained bootstrap mechanism for the build.

=== Prerequisites https://help.github.com/set-up-git-redirect[Git] and the https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads[JDK17 build].

Be sure that your JAVA_HOME environment variable points to the jdk-17 folder extracted from the JDK download.

=== Check out sources [indent=0]

git clone [email protected]:spring-projects/spring-security.git

=== Install all spring-* jars into your local Maven cache [indent=0]

./gradlew publishToMavenLocal

=== Compile and test; build all jars, distribution zips, and docs [indent=0]

./gradlew build

Discover more commands with ./gradlew tasks. See also the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/Gradle-build-and-release-FAQ[Gradle build and release FAQ].

== Getting Support Check out the https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-security[Spring Security tags on Stack Overflow]. https://spring.io/services[Commercial support] is available too.

== Contributing https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request[Pull requests] are welcome; see the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.adoc[contributor guidelines] for details.

== License Spring Security is Open Source software released under the https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html[Apache 2.0 license].