If you’ve been working with Spring Security for a while, it should come as no surprise that from time to time, they deprecate the old, and guide you towards the new. In 5.7.x such a change involves the often used WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter.

And while there are blog posts, release notes, and even an instruction video to highlight the required changes, in the end you will have to change your code. But what all those sources so far have failed to cover, is that there’s now also an easier way to migrate your code, using OpenRewrite.