spring-framework

⭐ New Features

• Efficient handling of conditional HTTP requests #33378

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix incorrect weak ETag validation #33377
• SimpleEvaluationContext does not enforce read-only semantics #33320
• ConversionService cannot convert primitive array to Object[] #33314
• SpEL Indexer silently ignores failure to set property as index #33312
• Mockito mock falsely initialized as CGLIB proxy with AspectJ aspect #33142
• "file:." cannot be resolved to java.nio.file.Path (and plain "." value resolves to classpath root) #33140

📔 Documentation

• Typo in Annotation-driven Listener Endpoints section of Spring Framework documentation #33052
• Container Extension Points section of Spring Framework documentation refers to the wrong property name #33039
• Incorrect constructor details in the javadoc for ApplicationContextEvent #33034

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.47 #33322

⭐ New Features

• Initialize RequestPath on demand in AbstractServerHttpRequest #33227
• Add support for making MapAccessor read-only #33222
• DefaultPartHttpMessageReader should not instantiate Reactor Scheduler eagerly #33218
• Change MIME type mapping for JavaScript to text/javascript #33197
• Handle SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor in WebSocketMessageBrokerStats #33104
• Support way to extract ConstraintViolation from HandlerMethodValidationException #33025

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AssertJ support for multipart does not set property content type on the request #33232
• MockMvc builders are not source and binary compatible with previous 6.x generations #33229
• __BeanFactoryRegistrations generated file can be too large with a BeanFactory with lots of bean definitions #33126

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@quaff

⭐ New Features

• Harmonize handling of current factory method in SimpleInstantiationStrategy #33192
• Unwrap InvocationTargetException in SpEL's FunctionReference #33174
• Support rendering multiple fragments #33162
• Allow MessageHeaderAccessor to be created with existing headers #33153
• Generalize message conversion for HTTP message content in AssertJ support #33148
• Allow arbitrary packages to be scanned for Reflective usage #33132
• Support external methods referenced by fully-qualified name in @TestBean #33125
• Update Content-Type based on encoding in MVC FreeMarkerView #33119
• Introduce SmartHttpMessageConverter #33118
• Support property placeholders in @Sql script paths #33114
• Reject ModelMap argument types in WebFlux #33109
• Set output_encoding in FreeMarkerView implementations #33106
• Allow encoding to be set with a Charset in FreeMarker support #33102
• Let custom ObjectProvider implementations declare a single method only #33070
• Add support for running assertions on resolved exception in MockMvcTester #33060
• Add dedicated support for printing the MvcResult in MockMvcTester #33059
• Provide a way to determine if a context is in the process of being closed #33058
• MockHttpServletRequestBuilder should merge URI from the parent if necessary #33057
• Fail fast if a @Bean method declares @Autowired as well #33051
• Add dedicated async dispatch support for MockMvcTester #33040
• Add dedicated multipart support for MockMvcTester #33027
• spring-form JSP tags should escape HTML value based on response character encoding #33023
• SimpleClientHttpResponse throws IOException when response body is empty and status code is >= 400 #33020
• MockHttpServletResponse defaults to ISO-8859-1 for JSON while the rest of the framework defaults to UTF-8 #33019
• Propagate context to message converters when streaming with Flux in Spring MVC #32813
• Resolve URI to baseUrl in RestClient #32679
• Constructor data binding support for List, Map and array arguments #32426
• Implement Eclipse Jetty core HTTP handler adapter #32097
• Add better control over generated files registration #31331
• Provide more declarative control over reflection hint registration #29194
• Replace @Nonnull(when = When.MAYBE) by @CheckForNull in @Nullable #27183
• Add JSON support to Protobuf codecs #25457

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AntPathPatternMatcher hardcoded "/" separator in variables matching and comparator #33085
• AOT generates a raw type for a generic type with nested unresolved generics #33069
• Unwrap Kotlin inline value classes return values #33026
• Kotlin Serialization support does not take null-safety into account #33016

📔 Documentation

• Move Testing below other framework concerns in the reference documentation TOC #33083
• Move Servlet HTTP Message Conversion to its own section #33063
• Document AssertJ support for MockMvc #32454

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to HtmlUnit 4.2.0 #33081
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.8.1 #33176
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.0-M1 #33170
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M4 #33171

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@gregw, @stonio, and @tafjwr

⭐ New Features

• Ensure varargs component type for MethodHandle is not null in SpEL's ReflectionHelper #33193
• Confusing WebClient exception message in case of Reactor-Netty PrematureCloseException during response #33127
• Include the bean name in the exception when an invalid factoryBeanObjectType attribute is found #33117
• Use error handler for reactive cache aspect #33073
• getTypeForFactoryMethod should catch NoClassDefFoundError #33075

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SpEL cannot invoke varargs MethodHandle function with an array #33191
• SpEL cannot invoke varargs MethodHandle function with zero variable arguments #33190
• Nested bean instance supplier invocation does not retain previous factory method #33180
• DefaultErrorResponseBuilder does not implement headers(Consumer) #33156
• Fix adaptation of violations on Set method parameter #33150
• Web controller call with invalid body resulting in 500 instead of 400 when using kotlinx-serialization #33138
• "file:." cannot be resolved to java.nio.file.Path (and plain "." value resolves to classpath root) #33124
• Mockito mock falsely initialized as CGLIB proxy with AspectJ aspect #33113
• Fix ClassCastException from return value validation with proxy when adaptConstraintViolations=true #33105
• Spring coroutines AOP is not compatible with @Transactional #33095
• ReactorClientHttpConnector creates new HttpClient for every request #33093
• Trace and Span IDs are no longer propagated RequestBodyAdvice beans #33091
• Early LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean initialization fails in case of null bean definition #33082
• ReactorNettyClientRequest.convertException should include original exception if cause is null #33080
• SpEL incorrectly splits string arguments by comma for Object... varargs method #33013
• ProtobufMessageConverter fails to parse JSON payload if byte array is used #27408

📔 Documentation

• Harmonize phrasing in URI Encoding section #33166
• Document that ModelMap is not a supported argument type in WebFlux #33107
• Example in Method Injection section of Spring Framework documentation refers to wrong bean names #33096
• Resource writer doesn't consider subclasses of InputStreamResource for content length bypass #33089
• Improve documentation regarding encoding in FreeMarker support #33071
• Exception for validation failure in WebFlux does not match the documentation #33061

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.24 #33177
• Upgrade to Kotlin Serialization 1.6.3 #33175
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.8 #33168
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.8 #33169

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@TAKETODAY, @hunhee98, @imvtsl, @snussbaumer, and @zizare

⭐ New Features

• Defensive PersistenceExceptionTranslator bean retrieval in PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor on shutdown #33067
• Support all "connection reset" exception phrases in DisconnectedClientHelper #33064

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Duplicate observations recorded with RestClient #33068
• WebFlux validation requires Servlet API since Spring Framework 6.1.3 #33043
• No qualifying bean of type 'java.lang.String' in case of accidental @Autowired @Bean method with @Value parameter #33030
• ConfigurationClassEnhancer doesn't not use correct ClassLoader when called multiple times #33024

📔 Documentation

• Typo in Annotation-driven Listener Endpoints section of Spring Framework documentation #33050
• Container Extension Points section of Spring Framework documentation refer to the wrong property name #33037
• Fix typo in comment #33036
• Incorrect constructor details in the javadoc for ApplicationContextEvent #33032

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@tafjwr

⭐ New Features

• Add support for converting the whole JSON document without using JSONPath #33018
• Support Protobuf 4.x #33011
• Do not swallow exceptions on failing to release a savepoint #32992
• Being able to provide extended timeouts for specific phases in the DefaultLifecycleProcessor #32985
• Allow json content to be converted using AssertJ's AssertFactory #32953
• Add support for BeanPostProcessor defined in Kotlin companion object #32946
• Support @TestBean factory methods defined in interfaces #32943
• Add a way to set the timeout to reactive jdk client #32941
• Revise convention-based semantics for @TestBean factory methods #32940
• Support field name as fallback qualifier for @TestBean, MockitoBean, and MockitoSpyBean #32939
• Use getMessageSource internally in RequestContext #32926
• MockMvc no longer needs methods that take a String httpMethod for custom methods #32914
• Allow MockMvcTester to prepare the query without the need of static imports #32913
• Rework Bean Overriding feature to better behave with TCF Context Caching #32884
• Introduce API to initialize BeanFactory before singleton instantiation #32836
• Introduce static MultiValueMap factory methods #32832
• Make use of JSONAssert in public API optional #32791
• Refine exception handling in AOT process to provide additional context #32777
• Handle ResponseStatusException thrown by MVC functional endpoints #32689
• Support data binding from request headers #32676
• Ignore trailing semicolons when parsing Accept-Language header #32259
• Introduce request attributes in RestClient #32027
• Make WebSocketMessageBrokerStats optionally export stats to micrometer #31604
• Add Partitioned cookie attribute support for reactive servers #31454
• Add execution metadata to scheduled tasks #24560

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Exception that prevents component scan with REGISTER_BEAN conditions should provide the affected configuration class #32998
• Bean override with REPLACE_OR_CREATE_DEFINITION and byType lookup fails if no match is found #32990
• Bean override factory post processing doesn't work with FactoryBean #32971
• @TestBean factory method not found in multi-level @Nested hierarchy #32951
• Support queries in opaque URLs #32920
• AbstractJsonContentAssert should allow satistfies to run on the json content, not the raw string #32894
• Content negotiation for exception handling fails with WebFlux #32878

📔 Documentation

• Fix typo in WebTestClient expectedXml #32969

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.1 #33000
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M3 #33006

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@AlexejTimonin, @andreblanke, @ccorbacho, @earlgrey02, @izeye, @m4tt30c91, and @schnapster

⭐ New Features

• CRaC: ignore checkpointOnRefresh afterRestore #32978
• Add missing hints for Hibernate @TenantId #32967
• AnnotationUtils performance degrades with deep stacks #32921
• Missing hints for Hibernate generators #32842
• AbstractAutoProxyCreator#determineBeanType can trigger bean initialization at build time for aspects implementing Ordered #32230

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Behaviour change in ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor: canceling scheduled tasks on ContextClosedEvent v6.0 -> v6.1 #33009
• ContentCachingRequestWrapper may allocate too much memory #32987
• Support canEncode() for JAXBElement in Jaxb2XmlEncoder #32977
• AspectJ CTW aspects executed twice #32970
• @Valid annotations on container elements for handler argument validation not supported #32964
• Add support for double backslashes to StringUtils#cleanPath #32962
• @CacheEvict condition uses wrapper comparison instead of actual objects #32960
• ConcurrentHashMap.computeIfAbsent used in AdvisedSupport can cause virtual thread pinning #32958
• Exception mapping does not work as expected when plugging in ReactorNettyClientRequestFactory into RestTemplate and RestClient #32952
• ReactorResourceFactory not working with CRaC onRefresh checkpoint #32945
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into an array or list with an Integer #32908
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into a Map with a primitive #32903
• BeanUtils.copyProperties no longer copies generic type properties from a base class that has been enhanced #32888
• Application not starting with @EnableTransactionManagement(mode = AdviceMode.ASPECTJ) #32882
• ReactorNettyClientResponse should not throw exception if no body is available #32805
• Observation in ServerHttpObservationFilter is never stopped for asynchronous requests #32730

📔 Documentation

• Fix typo in the Simple Broker section of the reference documentation #32993
• Remove outdated copyright from index.adoc #32983
• Use HttpStatusCode consistently in reference guide #32966
• Entity name in MappingSqlQuery example of reference guide is wrong #32957
• Fix RegisterReflectionForBinding Javadoc #32947
• Reference documentation sample for MethodValidationPostProcessor is missing a static keyword #32929
• Fix typo in Jakarta validation documentation #32928
• Refine KotlinDetector.isKotlinType documentation for Kotlin 2.x lambdas #32905
• Complete Kotlin example for HTTP message codecs in reference doc #32877
• Use Threadlocal.remove() instead of .set(null) in documentation #32874
• Unexpected bean override / inject behavior #32825
• Document why complex object structure are not supported as paremeters or properties by AOT #32273

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.7 #33001
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.7 #33007

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Attacktive, @Seungpang, @deblockt, @hlmg, @ozooxo, @soglad, and @ypyf

⭐ New Features

• AnnotationUtils performance degrades with deep stacks #32922

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Observation in ServerHttpObservationFilter is never stopped for asynchronous requests #32986
• AspectJ CTW aspects executed twice #32973
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into a Map with a primitive #32912
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into an array or list with an Integer #32910
• Application not starting with @EnableTransactionManagement(mode = AdviceMode.ASPECTJ) #32883

📔 Documentation

• Remove outdated copyright from index.adoc #32984

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.20 #33008

⭐ New Features

• AnnotationUtils performance degrades with deep stacks #32923

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AspectJ CTW aspects executed twice #32974
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into a Map with a primitive #32911
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into an array or list with an Integer #32909
• Application not starting with @EnableTransactionManagement(mode = AdviceMode.ASPECTJ) #32885

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.45 #33010

⭐ New Features

• Lazily register DynamicValuesPropertySource in the TestContext framework #32871
• Introduce getRequest and getResponse on MvcTestResult #32846
• Add support for qualifiers in test bean overriding and consider improving by-type matching #32822
• Support Content Negotiation and view rendering in ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #31936

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Change default phase for STOMP message handling components to be ahead of Boot's WebServerStartStopLifecycle default phase #27519

⭐ New Features

• Avoid creation of SAXParserFactory for every read operation in Jaxb2Marshaller and co #32851
• Suppress deprecation warning for AOT-generated code that refers to a deprecated bean type #32850

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Overridden aspect method runs twice #32865
• @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE\_TIME) cannot convert UTC without milliseconds to java.util.Date #32856
• Spring AOP fails against registered @Configurable aspect #32838
• MockHttpServletRequest should not use a shared reader when no content is available #32820

📔 Documentation

• Modernize Antora Build #32864
• Modernize Antora Build #32863
• Refine CDS documentation #32843
• Revisit validation documentation to better explain when method validation is invoked #32807

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@rwinch

⭐ New Features

• Avoid creation of SAXParserFactory for every read operation in Jaxb2Marshaller and co #32855

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Overridden aspect method runs twice #32867
• @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE\_TIME) cannot convert UTC without milliseconds to java.util.Date #32859
• MockHttpServletRequest should not use a shared reader when no content is available #32848
• Spring AOP fails against registered @Configurable aspect #32839

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Overridden aspect method runs twice #32868
• @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE\_TIME) cannot convert UTC without milliseconds to java.util.Date #32860
• Spring AOP fails against registered @Configurable aspect #32840

⭐ New Features

• Make it easier to register reflection hints on interface hierarchies #32824
• Support varargs invocations in SpEL for varargs array subtype in compiled expressions #32804
• Align StandaloneMockMvcBuilder with trailing slash defaults #32796
• Use lambda expressions consistently #32765
• Bean overriding in tests should use by-type semantic if no name is specified #32761
• Add ServerRequest.pathVariableOrNull Kotlin extension #32738
• Throw an exception for suspending factory methods #32719
• Introduce ReflectiveIndexAccessor convenience class in SpEL #32714
• Add BodyInserters.fromValue(T, ParameterizedTypeReference<T>) and related APIs #32713
• Rename AssertableMockMvc to MvcTester and review assertions structure #32712
• Introduce generateCodeForArgument() in CodeFlow #32708
• Make SpelNode compilation aware #32707
• Add a requiredBody() extension to RestClient.ResponseSpec #32703
• Add IndexAccessor support to SpEL's SimpleEvaluationContext #32702
• Support compilation of array and list indexing with Integer in SpEL #32694
• Avoid unnecessary compilation attempts in SpEL's Indexer #32677
• Adds support for qualifying columns with table. #32653
• Omit empty resource description in DeprecatedBeanWarner's log message #32647
• Introduce getName() in SpEL's BeanReference #32640
• Validate that private JUnit Jupiter lifecycle methods are not annotated with @Autowired #32627
• Ensure removal of Content-Type header if body Publisher is empty #32622
• Introduce CompilableIndexAccessor SPI in SpEL #32613
• AbstractJackson2Decoder doesn't support decoding NDJSON arrays into Flux #32579
• Handle DataBufferLimitException as HTTP 413 responses #32558
• Introduce URL parser based on algorithm provided in Living URL standard #32513
• JettyClientHttpRequestFactory should set request/response timeout #32330
• Remove Hibernate substitutions and deprecated properties usage #32314
• Register DynamicPropertyRegistry as a singleton bean in a test's ApplicationContext #32271
• Allow for AbstractUrlHandlerMapping to add/remove handlers at runtime #32064
• Make it possible for Spring Security to align with Spring MVC without HandlerMappingIntrospector #31823
• Create Filter to handle URLs with trailing slashes #31366
• Add testing support for WebMvc.fn #30477
• Use URL and HTTP method in DefaultResponseErrorHandler #28958
• CacheAspectSupport initialization failure should throw dedicated exceptions, rather than IllegalStateException #22442
• Clear AspectJExpressionPointcut cache when it is no longer used #12334

🐞 Bug Fixes

• MediaTypeAssert risk false negative with isNotEqual assertion #32756
• IndexAccessor cannot support custom Collection target type #32736
• Custom IndexAccessor cannot support String index type #32706
• HttpHeaders should reject negative ContentLength values #32660

📔 Documentation

• Improve wording in Spring Framework Overview documentation #32829
• Clarify supported targets for annotations in the TestContext framework #32772
• Modernize the lazy-initialized beans refdoc section #32767
• Document SpEL IndexAccessor support in the reference manual #32735
• Use lowercase package name in code snippets #32734
• Fix class name typo in reference documentation #32664
• Introduce configuration code includes and tabs in the Integration section #32600
• Document bean override support in the TestContext framework in the reference manual #32490

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to HtmlUnit 4.1.0 #32740
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.0 #32811
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M2 #32785
• Upgrade to webjars-locator-lite 1.0.0 #32564

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Donghh0221, @GeorgePap-719, @LeMikaelF, @MichaelKunze, @NadChel, @SharadK10, @attermann, @awmeinema, @dukbong, @earlgrey02, @evan-mc, @jerzykrlk, @laterlaugh, @mysend12, @onjik, and @quaff

⭐ New Features

• ResponseEntity is not reliably closed with InputStreamResource #32802
• Accept ajc-compiled @Aspect classes for Spring AOP proxy usage #32793
• Failure to process a bean definition ahead-of-time with an instance supplier should provide more contextual information #32775
• Provide methods to unambiguously send form data with MockMvc #32757
• Introduce NoOp implementation for ResponseErrorHandler #32750
• Support varargs invocations in SpEL for varargs array subtype #32704
• StreamUtils.copyRange overreads source stream in some cases #32695
• Modify error message when timeout is less than TIMEOUT_DEFAULT #32635
• Jetty HttpConnections not closed with SSE on Jetty 12.0.7+ when clients close the connection #32629
• Prevent duplicate subscription ID's in destinationCache of DefaultSubscriptionRegistry #32625
• When retrieval of a LoadTimeWeaverAware bean fails the resulting exception message may not indicate why it was being created #32470

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Do not send Cookie header in reactive JdkClientHttpRequest if no cookies added #32799
• Inconsistent use of cleaned URLs in PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver #32828
• DeferredQueryInvocationHandler fails to unwrap QuerySqmImpl class outside of transaction #32766
• BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar#registerReflectionHints can be invoked with a null type #32753
• AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext should propagate ApplicationStartup to BeanFactory #32747
• Ignore non-String keys in PropertiesPropertySource.getPropertyNames() #32742
• MergedAnnotations search does not find container for repeatable annotation #32731
• "multiple subscribers not supported" when using WebClient exchange #32727
• ConfigurationClassEnhancer should consistently trigger FastClass creation at build-time #32682
• HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory does not set Content-Length: 0 #32678
• Wrong proxy generation order during AOT for classes with ScopedProxyMode.TARGET\_CLASS and advisors #32669
• Unhandled JMS listener exceptions are not propagated #32666
• beanFactory#getBean with arguments ignore them if an Instance supplier is defined #32657
• Incorrect AsyncRequestTimeoutException handling in ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #32644
• Include actual cause's message in various parsing exception messages #32636
• Configuration class with Bean factory method on an interface generates wrong target with AOT #32609
• RestClient observations are stopped before ResponseSpec calls #32575
• MvcUriComponentsBuilder.fromMethodName does not pick the annotated method transparently #32553
• Deadlock/Stall in ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator with Undertow 2.3.10 #32445
• RSocket setup payload can cause Netty ByteBuf leak #32424
• WebFlux temporary file not always deleted with parallel uploads. #31217

📔 Documentation

• Replace RFC 7807 by RFC 9457 in documentation #32806
• Links to Framework and Servlet Javadoc from Framework's Kotlin API documentation are broken #32797
• Fix incorrect class reference syntax in Kotlin code sample #32733
• Improve documentation advising against use of HandlerInterceptor for security #32729
• Inconsistent behaviour on transactional async method #32709
• Document that getBean with arguments is not recommended with AOT #32690
• Provide an example of custom request URL with RestClient in the reference guide #32685
• Correct documentation on streaming with MockMvcWebTestClient #32687
• Document limitations of CGLIB proxy class generation in JPMS module setups #32671
• Update links to HttpOnly documentation at OWASP in ResponseCookie #32663
• Document that RestTemplate may not return a body for certain exceptions #32641
• Document that DataIntegrityViolationException can also be thrown on read-only queries #32631
• Update documentation to explain streaming vs collecting and error handling with Flux<T> return values #32630
• Revise "The IoC Container" section to be more relevant for modern Spring applications #32429
• XML bean definition with factory-method does not always determine correct target type #32091
• Document @Order behavior on types, bean methods, and config classes #30177
• Clarify recommendation on self-injection for legitimate use cases (e.g. @Transactional re-entrant calls) #28299

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.6 #32810
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.6 #32786

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@LeMikaelF, @Seungpang, @izeye, @m4tt30c91, @remeio, and @yhao3

⭐ New Features

• Accept ajc-compiled @Aspect classes for Spring AOP proxy usage #32817

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Do not send Cookie header in reactive JdkClientHttpRequest if no cookies added #32831
• Incorrect AsyncRequestTimeoutException handling in ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #32808
• DeferredQueryInvocationHandler fails to unwrap QuerySqmImpl class outside of transaction #32769
• MergedAnnotations search does not find container for repeatable annotation #32752
• AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext should propagate ApplicationStartup to BeanFactory #32748
• Ignore non-String keys in PropertiesPropertySource.getPropertyNames() #32743
• "multiple subscribers not supported" when using WebClient exchange #32732
• Wrong proxy generation order during AOT for classes with ScopedProxyMode.TARGET\_CLASS and advisors #32701
• Deadlock/Stall in ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator with Undertow 2.3.10 #32697
• ConfigurationClassEnhancer should consistently trigger FastClass creation at build-time #32683
• WebFlux temporary file not always deleted with parallel uploads. #32638

📔 Documentation

• Improve documentation advising against use of HandlerInterceptor for security #32809
• Links to Framework's Java API documentation from its Kotlin API documentation are broken #32801
• Correct documentation on streaming with MockMvcWebTestClient #32722
• Document that DataIntegrityViolationException can also be thrown on read-only queries #32686
• Update links to HttpOnly documentation at OWASP in ResponseCookie #32667

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.19 #32787

⭐ New Features

• Accept ajc-compiled @Aspect classes for Spring AOP proxy usage #32818

🐞 Bug Fixes

• DeferredQueryInvocationHandler fails to unwrap QuerySqmImpl class outside of transaction #32770
• MergedAnnotations search does not find container for repeatable annotation #32751
• AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext should propagate ApplicationStartup to BeanFactory #32749
• Ignore non-String keys in PropertiesPropertySource.getPropertyNames() #32744
• "multiple subscribers not supported" when using WebClient exchange #32728
• Deadlock/Stall in ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator with Undertow 2.3.10 #32698

📔 Documentation

• Correct documentation on streaming with MockMvcWebTestClient #32723
• Update links to HttpOnly documentation at OWASP in ResponseCookie #32668

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.44 #32788

⭐ New Features

• Remove unnecessary method.isAccessible() invocation #32548
• Improve names of classes generated by the SpEL compiler #32497
• Refine null-safety with NullAway build-time checks #32475
• Consistent handling of undeclared checked exceptions in CGLIB proxies #32469
• Resolve property-dependent parameter names for exception messages #32462
• Consistent ErrorHandler support in TaskScheduler variants #32460
• Add CBOR support to AllEncompassingFormHttpMessageConverter #32428
• Reject null return value from MethodReplacer for primitive return type #32412
• Make SpEL's OptimalPropertyAccessor private #32410
• NPE when using pathExtension predicate for routes that have no file extensions #32404
• Use Map#computeIfAbsent in SpEL support classes #32385
• Use ELContext instead of deprecated VariableResolver API in JspPropertyAccessor #32383
• Add web support for YAML via Jackson #32345
• Add DataSource configuration/exposure to LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean #32344
• ServletResponseHttpHeaders ignores content type in ServletResponse #32339
• Use ConcurrentHashMap.newKeySet where feasible #32294
• Avoid resizing of fixed-size HashSet/LinkedHashSet variants #32291
• Support backticks for quoted identifiers in spring-r2dbc #32285
• Avoid internal lifecycle synchronization for SingleConnectionFactory and SingleConnectionDataSource #32284
• DefaultMessageListenerContainer should be able to scale down using default config #32260
• Revise DefaultMessageListenerContainer for first-class virtual thread support #32252
• Optimize Request Predicate attribute merging #32245
• Add ThreadLocalAccessor for LocaleContext and RequestAttributes #32243
• Avoid ASYNC dispatch if possible in DefaultAsyncServerResponse #32223
• Deprecate LobHandler and SqlXmlHandler abstractions (including SqlLobValue and related support classes) #32179
• Revisit default lifecycle phases and timeouts (e.g. for ThreadPoolTaskScheduler) #32152
• Harmonize ChannelRegistration to use Executor rather than TaskExecutor #32129
• Deprecate HttpHeaders.writableHttpHeaders #32116
• JsonPathAssertions methods that take a type used as a lambda should be ordered consistently #32062
• Deprecate local variable support in SpEL's internal ExpressionState #32004
• Support sending large STOMP messages as fragmented frames on WebSocketStompClient #31970
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate does not support backticks for quoted identifiers #31944
• Use UTF-8 by default for JSON multipart content in ContentRequestMatchers #31924
• Add interception of RFC-7807 responses #31822
• Provide more control over charset parameter when writing form data #31781
• Enhance WebTestClient to support JSONPath decoding to higher level objects #31653
• Enhance JsonPathExpectationsHelper to allow use of JSONPath Configuration #31651
• Support "--" end of options in SimpleCommandLineArgsParser #31513
• Make use of bean definition overriding more visible #31288
• Initial support for Servlet 6.1 #31159
• Initial support for JPA 3.2 #31157
• Support to propagate a savepoint operation via TransactionSynchronization #30509
• Resolve type variable recursively in GenericTypeResolver #30079
• Propagate WebClient attributes into underlying HTTP client request where possible #29958
• Provide a safe way to override and mock beans in the TestContext framework #29917
• Invoke methods via public interface/superclass in compiled SpEL expressions #29857
• Introduce null-safe index operator in SpEL #29847
• @Valid annotation can't establish dependency relationship between beans #29730
• Optimize constructor dependency injection performance for parameter name matches #28122
• Efficient webjars version resolution natively in Spring #27619
• Throw Exception when two primary beans are present in one factory #26612
• Allow creation of Beans that cannot be autowired by type unless qualified #26528
• Introduce IndexAccessor SPI to customize the SpEL Indexer #26478
• Introduce support for non-@Primary fallback beans #26241
• Optimize ConfigurationClassPostProcessor#enhanceConfigurationClasses method to shorten startup time #25738
• Inherited @Transactional methods should be able to use class-level TransactionManager qualifier from concrete class #24291
• TaskScheduler does not work with TaskDecorator #23755
• Synchronization during singleton creation may result in deadlock #23501
• Allow global default for @Transactional rollback behavior on checked exceptions #23473
• Add support for resolving multiple bounds in type variables #22902
• @Transactional annotation can't establish dependency relationship between beans #22526
• Asynchronous EntityManagerFactory bootstrapping to complete on context refresh completion [SPR-17334] #21868
• Provide a mechanism to be notified that a bean has been created [SPR-16822] #21362
• Reduce the effect of different base package configuration on component scanning performance and make the effect more intuitive [SPR-16649] #21190
• Support AssertJ variant in MockMvc [SPR-16637] #21178
• Support configuration of connection URL via EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder [SPR-16619] #21160
• Revisit storage of null attributes in AbstractFallbackTransaction/CacheAttributeSource [SPR-15513] #20072
• Asynchronous initialization of beans during startup [SPR-14920] #19487
• Autowiring with @Autowired/@Inject get much slower than with @Resource as the number of classes increases [SPR-13086] #17677
• Parallel bean initialization during startup [SPR-8767] #13410
• Support escaping prefix and separator in property placeholders [SPR-4953] #9628

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Transactional event listener invoked like standard event listener if @EnableTransactionManagement not active #32319
• Stop overriding thread name prefix for externally configured Executor in ChannelRegistration #32132
• WebClient and RestClient's defaultRequest(..) is not invoked early enough #32053
• Alias resolution in SimpleAliasRegistry depends on hash codes of alias values #32024
• Fix DefaultDataBuffer#getNativeBuffer() to set correct limit #32009
• DefaultDataBuffer#setNativeBuffer violates contract of DataBuffer #30984
• The method getNativeBuffer() in DefaultDataBuffer returns misconfigured ByteBuffer #30967
• ApplicationContext caches are not cleared as expected when beans are lazy initialized #30954
• A configuration class superclass that is skipped due to register bean phase conditions is ignored when another configuration class that extends it is processed #28676
• Configuration class parsing registers bean in parent class if overridden @Bean method defines an alternative name #28286
• Conditions to determine if @ComponentScan should be applied can be chosen from the wrong class #27077
• Fallback with placeholder is evaluated even if the fallback is not required #26268
• Name of scanned @Configuration class affects @Import to work or fail #24643
• Reject conditional @ComponentScan declarations that rely on the REGISTER_BEAN phase #23206
• Initialization blocked by multi-threaded event publishing [SPR-16357] #20904
• Invalid instance injected for generic type in case of partial type variable [SPR-16179] #20727

📔 Documentation

• Polish Bean Overriding in Tests section of the reference guide #32411
• Improve Javadoc for substituteNamedParameters() in NamedParameterUtils regarding empty lists #32380
• StringUtils.uriDecode decodes strings with non-ASCII characters incorrectly #32360
• Improve documentation for SpEL indexing support #32355
• Document when the JPA infrastructure is ready for use #26153
• Refactor configuration code samples to be more relevant for modern Spring applications #22171

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to HtmlUnit 3.11.0 #30392
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.0-RC1 #32595
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M1 #32591

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@FelixDes, @Flamme1004K, @LeMikaelF, @PhilKes, @Trympyrym, @ZeroCyan, @alidandach, @andrea-mauro, @azdanov, @deejay1, @injae-kim, @izeye, @jackmiking, @kilink, @nullzl, @quaff, @ttddyy, and @yuhangbin

⭐ New Features

• Log column type for limited support message in JdbcUtils.getResultSetValue #32601
• Consistent support for generic FactoryBean type matching when using getBeanProvider #32590
• @RequestParam binding does not support params with an empty array "[]" suffix #32577
• Maximum Request Size handling support for Undertow in StandardMultipartHttpServletRequest #32549
• Introduce common support for is-null-safe checks in SpEL nodes #32516
• Avoid additional unnecessary Annotation array cloning in TypeDescriptor #32476
• Avoid cloning empty Annotation array in TypeDescriptor #32405

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Refine scheme, userinfo, host and port parsing in UriComponentsBuilder #32616
• "GET must not have a request body" exception with OkhttpClient and BufferingClientHttpRequestFactory #32612
• JMSTemplate.sendAndReceive does not propagate tracer over the wire #32606
• Calling Kotlin suspend functions in non-reactive application crashes due to unresolvable class #32599
• MethodIntrospector.selectMethods() fails to detect bridge methods across ApplicationContexts #32586
• Fix handling value class with private constructor on proxy #32536
• ReactorNettyClientResponse should not dispose connection #32528
• CompoundExpression omits null-safe syntax in AST string representation of null-safe selection/projection in SpEL #32515
• Generic Kotlin controllers got broken in 6.1.5 #32510
• WebFlux Blocking controller runs on non-blocking thread when request input data present #32502
• Generic interface on FactoryBean class not autowired in case of targetType mismatch #32489
• HeaderContentNegotiationStrategy.resolveMediaTypes() throws unexpected InvalidMimeTypeException #32483
• JmsUtils.commitIfNecessary catches and ignores JMS IllegalStateException, losing message with ActiveMQ Artemis #32473
• Missing bean class in native image with a Kotlin nested class #32472
• Spring MVC re-creates form data from request params and re-encoding can change the content-length #32471
• Unhandled JMS exceptions are not always recorded as observation errors #32458
• Consistently apply TaskDecorator to ManagedExecutorService as well #32455

📔 Documentation

• SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler: Returned ScheduledFuture does not track provided task execution #32589
• Remove link to unrelated method in javadoc of AnnotatedBeanDefinitionReader #32560
• Fix typos and improve wording in reference documentation #32557
• Document that active profiles are set at build time with AOT #32543
• Fix broken link to vavr in the reference guide #32494
• Document AOT limitations related to Kotlin identifiers with backticks #32487
• Add Javadoc since to AbstractClientHttpRequestFactoryWrapper.getDelegate() #32474
• Default strategy for ProblemDetail error codes wrongly document how "detail" is supported #32446

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.5 #32596
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.5 #32592

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Banuelorigni, @LinorDolev, @T45K, @izeye, @kilink, @quaff, and @qww1552

⭐ New Features

• Log column type for limited support message in JdbcUtils.getResultSetValue #32602
• Avoid additional unnecessary Annotation array cloning in TypeDescriptor #32478
• Avoid cloning empty Annotation array in TypeDescriptor #32465

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Refine scheme, userinfo, host and port parsing in UriComponentsBuilder #32617
• MethodIntrospector.selectMethods() fails to detect bridge methods across ApplicationContexts #32587
• Generic interface on FactoryBean class not autowired in case of targetType mismatch #32585
• HeaderContentNegotiationStrategy.resolveMediaTypes() throws unexpected InvalidMimeTypeException #32484
• JmsUtils.commitIfNecessary catches and ignores JMS IllegalStateException, losing message with ActiveMQ Artemis #32479
• Consistently apply TaskDecorator to ManagedExecutorService as well #32456

📔 Documentation

• Fix broken link to vavr in the reference guide #32495

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.18 #32593