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Remove Access API
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in: core
type: breaks-passivity
type: enhancement
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- Java
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Description
Related to https://spring.io/blog/2025/09/09/access-api-moves-to-spring-security-access
We should revisit this possibility in Spring Security 8.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked Spring blog post about the Access API moving to Spring Security Access, then inspect the current Access API surface and its integration points in this repository. Define the Spring Security 8 removal scope and migration impact before making changes; done means the scope is agreed and the affected API and tests are addressed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, spring
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100