4.2.9 Release

⭐ New Features

• Default async timeout handling results in Logged Exception for Tomcat 8.5.x [SPR-14739] #19305
• Improve performance of StompEncoder.encode() [SPR-14747] #19313
• StompSubProtocolHandler makes the same assumption about header accessor as SimpleBrokerMessageHandler used to [SPR-14791] #19357
• Normalize resource URL in ResourceServlet [SPR-14946] #19513

🪲 Bug Fixes

• ObjectToObjectConverter should be able to use constructors on non-public classes [SPR-14304] #18876
• Async advisor retrieval blocks when triggered by singleton init method [SPR-14324] #18896
• IPv6 + Origin header + X-Forwarded-Host header gives NumberFormatException (Safari10 / CORS) [SPR-14761] #19327
• SockJs heartbeat causes deadlock with XHR polling [SPR-14833] #19399
• SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster should not generally suppress ClassCastException [SPR-14846] #19412
• NPE PropertyOrFieldReference$AccessorLValue due to concurrency issue [SPR-14850] #19416
• AbstractSockJsSession deadlock when tomcat WsSession is closing [SPR-14917] #19484
• List-to-String conversion exception does not refer to element type [SPR-14971] #19537
• ImportAware.setImportMetadata not invoked if import inherited from superclass with negative condition [SPR-14972] #19538
• Concurrency problem in DeferredResult: potential double execution of handleResult [SPR-14978] #19544
• Pointcut evaluation fails against AbstractHandlerMethodMapping$MappingRegistry with AspectJ 1.8.10 [SPR-15019] #19586
• MBeanExporter fails against null beans [SPR-15031] #19598

📔 Documentation

• @lookup method injection method documentation [SPR-14765] #19331
• Document supported return types for @Async methods [SPR-14881] #19447
• SpEL and Date Literals [SPR-14987] #19553

3.2.18 Release

⭐ New Features

• Allow method inlining of ObjectUtils.nullSafeEquals() [SPR-14349] #18921
• Normalize resource URL in ResourceServlet [SPR-14946] #19513
• ModelAndViewResolver still refers to raw Class type [SPR-7860] #12517

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Constructor sets the source incorrectly in org.springframework.beans.PropertyValue [SPR-8337] #12985
• ObjectToObjectConverter should be able to use constructors on non-public classes [SPR-14304] #18876
• Async advisor retrieval blocks when triggered by singleton init method [SPR-14324] #18896
• Deadlock while creating a new thread on bean initialization with transactional code invocation [SPR-14388] #18961
• CronSequenceGenerator causes StackOverflowError with reversed range values [SPR-14462] #19031
• Ineffective synchronization in StandardTypeConverter constructor [SPR-14465] #19034
• ResourcePatternUtils.getResourcePatternResolver does not accept null arg [SPR-14500] #19069
• LinkedCaseInsensitiveMap doesn't override HashMap.clone() [SPR-14509] #19078
• StackOverflowError for advisor search against factory-bean reference to FactoryBean [SPR-14551] #19119
• StringUtils.parseLocaleString(): does not parse locale string in java 7 for Serbian (Latin) [SPR-14718] #19283
• Concurrency problem in DeferredResult: potential double execution of handleResult [SPR-14978] #19544
• MBeanExporter fails against null beans [SPR-15031] #19598

📔 Documentation

• Ambiguous sentence in the cache documentation [SPR-14399] #18017
• SpEL and Date Literals [SPR-14987] #19553

5.0 M3 Release

⭐ New Features

• Consider making MessageChannel a @FunctionalInterface [SPR-14854] #19420
• Improve WebClient error handling [SPR-14852] #19418
• Add support for RxJava 2 Maybe type [SPR-14843] #19409
• ApplicationContext-based initialization of reactive WebFilter, WebHandler, WebExceptionHandler infrastructure [SPR-14837] #19403
• Support @ResponseStatus on reactive controller methods [SPR-14830] #19396
• Do not use Jackson2JsonEncoder for byte array [SPR-14825] #19391
• Remove not existing NativeJdbcExtractors from documentation [SPR-14810] #19376
• Add support for URI templates in redirectedUrl() & forwardedUrl() [SPR-14790] #19356
• Remove @Inherited from @Primary [SPR-14780] #19346
• Only print printable content for request and response body in Spring MVC Test [SPR-14776] #19342
• Add @EnableWebReactive and WebReactiveConfigurerAdapter configuration model [SPR-14754] #19320
• Close resources in WebClient and ClientHttpConnector [SPR-14750] #19316
• Add support for context paths in Spring Web Reactive [SPR-14726] #19291
• Print request body in PrintingResultHandler in Spring MVC Test [SPR-14717] #19282
• Add way to obtain Principal from ServerWebExchange [SPR-14680] #19244
• Support @EnabledIf and @DisabledIf without loading ApplicationContext [SPR-14649] #19215
• Reactive HTTP request CORS Support [SPR-14545] #19113
• Reactive HTTP request @InitBinder support [SPR-14543] #19111
• Reactive HTTP request @ModelAttribute support [SPR-14542] #19110
• Reactive HTTP request data binding [SPR-14541] #19109
• Reactive HttpMessageReader/Writer for "x-www-form-url-encoded" data [SPR-14540] #19108
• Introduce HttpHeaders getContentDisposition() and setContentDisposition() [SPR-14408] #18979

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Returning Mono<ResponseEntity<?>> causes NPE [SPR-14877] #19443
• Wrong HandlerResultHandler select when dealing with exceptions [SPR-14876] #19442
• [spring-web-reactive] NPE in RequestMappingHandlerAdapter at Startup [SPR-14869] #19435
• JsonObjectDecoder fails to decode some splitted source [SPR-14859] #19425
• Fix HttpRequest#getURI() with Netty based engines [SPR-14794] #19360
• Flux looses messages when using a Processor from another Thread [SPR-14772] #19338
• Error while serializing ServerSentEvent [SPR-14748] #19314
• CssLinkResourceTransformer is incompatible with ContentVersionStrategy when using Caching [SPR-14597] #19166

📔 Documentation

• Replace J2EE with Java EE [SPR-14811] #19377
• Remove OracleLobHandler from documentation [SPR-14809] #19375
• Reference Documentation: instruct how RestTemplate should handle the errors thrown about @Validated (JSR 303/349) [SPR-14724] #19289

4.3.4 Release

⭐ New Features

• Improve exception when failing to create a specific bean due to a NoClassDefFoundError [SPR-14883] #19449
• ApplicationListenerDetector should ignore non-managed bean instances [SPR-14879] #19445
• Sockjs XHR Fallback on already existing WebSocketServerSockJsSession [SPR-14867] #19433
• Use String.intern() for Annotation and Class scanning [SPR-14862] #19428
• Log exception from @ExceptionHandler at higher level than debug [SPR-14861] #19427
• Possibility to use org.springframework.cache.support.NoOpCacheManager.NoOpCache as public class as NoOpCacheManager [SPR-14856] #19422
• TransactionStatus.flush() should trigger TransactionSynchronization.flush() when using DataSourceTransactionManager [SPR-14847] #19413
• Make HttpComponentsAsyncClientHttpRequest abortable [SPR-14845] #19411
• AnnotationFormatterFactory should support @AliasFor [SPR-14844] #19410
• Type information not available on NoSuchBeanDefinitionException for collections [SPR-14831] #19397
• ResolvableType equals method should not consider TypeProvider source [SPR-14826] #19392
• GenericConversionService.addConverter should be able to determine generic types from target class behind proxy [SPR-14822] #19388
• Allow type produced by ScopedProxyFactoryBean to be determined before singleton is created [SPR-14816] #19382
• Hibernate 5 LocalSessionFactoryBean should allow for dynamic mapping registration (like for Hibernate 4) [SPR-14815] #19381
• IllegalArgumentException: HttpEntity parameter 'null' [SPR-14799] #19365
• Better encapsulate and Javadoc CORS configuration defaults [SPR-14798] #19364
• StompSubProtocolHandler makes the same assumption about header accessor as SimpleBrokerMessageHandler used to [SPR-14791] #19357
• Inner bean behind BeanFactoryPostProcessor should be able to receive application events [SPR-14783] #19349
• Reduce String allocations in TransactionAspectSupport.methodIdentification() [SPR-14760] #19326
• Improve performance of StompEncoder.encode() [SPR-14747] #19313
• Netty4ClientHttpRequestFactory should configure a default SslContext [SPR-14744] #19310
• Default async timeout handling results in Logged Exception for Tomcat 8.5.x [SPR-14739] #19305
• YAML + PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer needs to process non-String values as well [SPR-14737] #19303
• Method getMergedProperties in ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource does not set fileTimestamp [SPR-14583] #19152
• Allow customization of TestDispatcherServlet when using @MockMvcTest [SPR-14277] #18849
• context:property-placeholder should accept comma-separated list as placeholder value for its location attribute [SPR-10502] #15135
• BindingResult should not hold on to ConversionService when serialized in session [SPR-8282] #12930

🪲 Bug Fixes

• NoSuchMethodError when using AnnotatedElementAdapter with Java 7 [SPR-14872] #19438
• SpEL: Compiled OpNE should favor equals() to != [SPR-14863] #19429
• Allow @Cacheable method to return java.util.Optional variant of cached value with @Cacheable(sync=true) [SPR-14853] #19419
• ResourceHttpRequestHandler no longer works as prototype bean [SPR-14851] #19417
• NPE PropertyOrFieldReference$AccessorLValue due to concurrency issue [SPR-14850] #19416
• LiveBeansView#unregister should not rely on ApplicationContext#getApplicationName [SPR-14848] #19414
• SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster should not generally suppress ClassCastException [SPR-14846] #19412
• SockJs heartbeat causes deadlock with XHR polling [SPR-14833] #19399
• Cache annotation lookup in 4.3 finds more annotations than in 4.2 [SPR-14801] #19367
• ModelAndView's setStatus does not work for @ExceptionHandler methods [SPR-14796] #19362
• Access-Control-Allow-Methods contains duplicate HTTP methods [SPR-14792] #19358
• @CacheConfig(cacheNames) broken when used on interface [SPR-14781] #19347
• SpringValidatorAdapter's ResolvableAttribute is not serializable [SPR-14778] #19344
• ETag header is removed from PUT/POST/PATCH responses [SPR-14767] #19333
• IPv6 + Origin header + X-Forwarded-Host header gives NumberFormatException (Safari10 / CORS) [SPR-14761] #19327
• DefaultPersistenceUnitManager may configure a persistence unit root URL that does not point to a file or directory [SPR-14749] #19315
• Async advisor retrieval blocks when triggered by singleton init method [SPR-14324] #18896
• ObjectToObjectConverter should be able to use constructors on non-public classes [SPR-14304] #18876

📔 Documentation

• Document supported return types for @Async methods [SPR-14881] #19447
• The contract for StringValueResolver.resolveStringValue should be more explicit [SPR-14842] #19408
• Bad Table Rendering in Default Exception Handling Documentation [SPR-14782] #19348
• @lookup method injection method documentation [SPR-14765] #19331

5.0 M2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Improve error handling in reactive SSE support when the remote channel is closed [SPR-14538] #22189
• Add WebApplicationInitializers for Web Reactive [SPR-14713] #19278
• Consider to make ApplicationEventPublisher as @FunctionalInterface [SPR-14699] #19263
• Expose Channel on Resource [SPR-14698] #19262
• Provide annotated controller hints to codecs and JsonView support [SPR-14693] #19257
• Change default file extension in AppCacheManifestTransformer [SPR-14687] #19251
• Add HttpBasic ClientWebRequestPostProcessor [SPR-14682] #19246
• Add ResourceRegionHttpMessageWriter [SPR-14664] #19228
• Add ServerWebExchange argument resolver [SPR-14658] #19223
• Introduce support for enabling JUnit Jupiter tests with SpEL expressions [SPR-14644] #19210
• Support for RxJava 2 [SPR-14628] #19195
• Introduce support for disabling JUnit Jupiter tests with SpEL expressions [SPR-14614] #19181
• Missing String return type from reactive @Controller doc at Ref Manual [SPR-14565] #19134
• Reactive HTTP request "check not modified" support [SPR-14522] #19091
• Reactive static resource handler [SPR-14521] #19090
• HTML5 Application Cache Manifest not served with Content-Type "text/cache-manifest" [SPR-14510] #19079
• ClientHttpRequestInterceptor for WebClient [SPR-14502] #19071
• Add Smile and CBOR Jackson data formats support [SPR-14435] #19006
• Reactive request and response "mocks" [SPR-14421] #18992
• Allow Resources resolved through the resource chain to update the response [SPR-14264] #18836
• Support nested test classes with SpringClassRule & SpringMethodRule [SPR-14150] #18722
• Update RestTemplate to respect @Order for ClientHttpRequestInterceptor [SPR-13971] #18543
• HttpMessageConverterExtractor should wrap HttpMessageNotReadableException in RestClientExceptions [SPR-13592] #18170
• Align existing checkNotModified support in Spring MVC with same on the reactive side [SPR-14659] #18168
• New controller for Spring MVC using Lambda [SPR-12954] #17546
• Spring-specific index file for component candidate classes [SPR-11890] #16509
• Allow to specify bean qualifier in an AOP @Around / @Before / ... [SPR-11217] #15842
• Allow for concurrent test execution in the TestContext framework [SPR-5863] #10532

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Exception during initialisaton of resource handling at WebReactiveConfiguration [SPR-14735] #19301
• Reactive path matching does not consider servlet context path [SPR-14714] #19279
• Handle ResponseEntity with null bodies [SPR-14663] #19227
• Inconsistent handling of ResponseStatusExceptions [SPR-14618] #19185
• ReactorHttpClientConnector ignores SSL support [SPR-14593] #19162
• Encoding of flux data is incorrect [SPR-14586] #19155
• NoSuchElementException when receiving a HTTP 401 with WebClient [SPR-14582] #19151
• Let users control reactive SSE stream completion [SPR-14578] #19147
• Reactive controller methods annotated with @PathVariable aren't invoked [SPR-14553] #19121

4.3.3 Release

⭐ New Features

• ScriptTemplateView should check template resource [SPR-14729] #19294
• Introduce 'value' alias for @Bean's 'name' attribute [SPR-14728] #19293
• Add SPI to customize the qualifiers to use for a particular bean [SPR-14725] #19290
• Don't log property values in PropertySourcesPropertyResolver by default [SPR-14709] #19274
• AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer's workaround for Tibco causes performance delays during ems failover [SPR-14697] #19261
• Consistent *Aware callbacks for TypeFilters, ImportSelectors and ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrars [SPR-14686] #19250
• ConfigurationClassParser does not use ApplicationContext's ResourceLoader for its MetadataReaderFactory [SPR-14684] #19248
• Better Exception Message for JMS Jackson Converter Error [SPR-14672] #19236
• Default async request timeout handling does not work with Jetty 9.x [SPR-14669] #19233
• Allow @PathVariable to be optional [SPR-14646] #19212
• Optimize ordered event listener performance [SPR-14642] #19208
• CommonsMultipartResolver should explicitly convert FileSizeLimitExceededException next to SizeLimitExceededException [SPR-14638] #19204
• Improve performance of StompCommand.getMessageType() [SPR-14636] #19203
• Consistent comma splitting without regex overhead (e.g. in MediaType/MimeType) [SPR-14635] #19202
• ListBeansView should also expose aliases [SPR-14632] #19199
• Protect against getParameterType cursor leak with Oracle 12c JDBC driver [SPR-14629] #19196
• GenericApplicationContext should pick up ClassLoader from custom ResourceLoader [SPR-14626] #19193
• Improve performance of assertion in StompSubProtocolHandler [SPR-14624] #19191
• Avoid creation of lazy candidates when the primary bean is injected [SPR-14611] #19178
• Allow specifying CompilationCustomizer for Groovy based beans [SPR-14585] #19154
• Allow programmatic registration of bean definitions with a ResolvableType [SPR-14580] #19149
• Avoid repeated getParameterType calls for setNull with Oracle 12c driver [SPR-14574] #19143
• MockClientHttpResponse should close stream [SPR-14563] #19132
• HttpEntityMethodProcessor should not throw IllegalArgumentExceptions for invalid If-None-Match headers [SPR-14559] #19127
• PathEditor returns wrong result for absolute path in servletContext.getRealPath(...) [SPR-14549] #19117
• HttpHeaders.setContentDispositionFormData() doesn't encode non-acsii characters correctly [SPR-14547] #19115
• MockMvcResultMatchers.jsonPath(String).value() should have a matching method to declare the expected type [SPR-14498] #19067
• findDefaultEntityManagerFactory should consider EMF bean's primary flag [SPR-7549] #12206

🪲 Bug Fixes

• exception during websocket client close [SPR-14721] #19286
• StringUtils.parseLocaleString(): does not parse locale string in java 7 for Serbian (Latin) [SPR-14718] #19283
• NPE during websocket disconnect [SPR-14703] #19268
• HibernateExceptionTranslator translating to InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException when using vanilla Hibernate [SPR-14681] #19245
• Spring 4.3.2 HibernateTemplate#findByNamedQuery isn't compatible with Hibernate 5.0 [SPR-14676] #19240
• Performance regression when scheduling is enabled and context contains URL beans [SPR-14666] #19230
• TypeConverterSupport does not propagate custom exceptions anymore [SPR-14661] #19225
• ResolvableType for a raw type is not assignable to generic types of the same class [SPR-14648] #19214
• Fix assertions in StompHeaderAccessor [SPR-14625] #19192
• Missing MessageMethodArgumentResolver default constructor [SPR-14616] #19183
• Transaction manager cache fails to repopulate when multiple transaction managers defined [SPR-14609] #19177
• OutOfMemoryError caused by nested UnsatisfiedDependencyExceptions [SPR-14607] #19175
• WebMvcConfigurer#extendHandlerExceptionResolvers is not invoked [SPR-14599] #19168
• NoSuchBeanDefinitionException message shows internal array class names [SPR-14595] #19164
• Improve documentation for Cacheable#result (re: Optional wrapper) [SPR-14587] #19156
• HtmlUnitRequestBuilder corrupts the parent RequestBuilder [SPR-14584] #19153
• When favorPathExtension is false ResourceHttpRequestHandler serves resources with different content type in 4.3 compared to 4.2 [SPR-14577] #19146
• StompSubProtocolHandler responds with ERROR (Session closed.) on DISCONNECT when using SimpleBrokerMessageHandler [SPR-14568] #19137
• SockJS heartbeat is causing application send Message to fail similar to (SPR-14356) [SPR-14564] #19133
• ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in MethodBasedEvaluationContext [SPR-14554] #19122
• StackOverflowError for advisor search against factory-bean reference to FactoryBean [SPR-14551] #19119
• Default connection release mode inconsistent with Hibernate 5.1.1 [SPR-14548] #19116
• StackOverflowError at AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.resolveVariable [SPR-14520] #19089
• Regression: Insert statement fails with inconsistent datatypes on Oracle 12c driver [SPR-14191] #18764
• Constructor sets the source incorrectly in org.springframework.beans.PropertyValue [SPR-8337] #12985

📔 Documentation

• Update CONTRIBUTING.md to require use of UTF-8 (instead of ISO-8859-1)) [SPR-14674] #19238
• NoHandlerFoundException is mapped to 404 twice [SPR-14598] #19167
• @Configuration constructor behaviour documentation differs between Reference Documentation and API docs [SPR-14552] #19120

4.2.8 Release

⭐ New Features

• When I try to acquire MD5 using DigestUtils, java.lang.OutOfMemoryError occurs. [SPR-14427] #18998
• Avoid canonicalName call for already-seen bean name [SPR-14433] #19004
• @RequestMapping consumes/produces InvalidMediaTypeException should mention offending class & method [SPR-14452] #19021
• UrlPathHelper in PathExtensionContentNegotiationStrategy should be configurable [SPR-14454] #19023
• Avoid JNDI property lookup attempts for invalid JNDI keys [SPR-14518] #19087
• Avoid repeated getParameterType calls for setNull with Oracle 12c driver [SPR-14574] #19143
• Improve performance of assertion in StompSubProtocolHandler [SPR-14624] #19191
• Protect against getParameterType cursor leak with Oracle 12c JDBC driver [SPR-14629] #19196
• Improve performance of StompCommand.getMessageType() [SPR-14636] #19203
• CommonsMultipartResolver should explicitly convert FileSizeLimitExceededException next to SizeLimitExceededException [SPR-14638] #19204
• Default async request timeout handling does not work with Jetty 9.x [SPR-14669] #19233
• Better Exception Message for JMS Jackson Converter Error [SPR-14672] #19236
• AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer's workaround for Tibco causes performance delays during ems failover [SPR-14697] #19261
• ScriptTemplateView should check template resource [SPR-14729] #19294

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Constructor sets the source incorrectly in org.springframework.beans.PropertyValue [SPR-8337] #12985
• ConfigurationClassParser needs to load annotations through source class loader [SPR-10343] #14977
• Regression: Insert statement fails with inconsistent datatypes on Oracle 12c driver [SPR-14191] #18764
• SSE: Terminating chunk not sent using tomcat >= 8.0.35 [SPR-14444] #19014
• MethodBasedEvaluationContext.lazyLoadArguments() execution fails for empty variable arguments call [SPR-14453] #19022
• CronSequenceGenerator causes StackOverflowError with reversed range values [SPR-14462] #19031
• Ineffective synchronization in StandardTypeConverter constructor [SPR-14465] #19034
• MessageHeaderAccessor doesn't remove headers if they are null [SPR-14468] #19037
• ResourcePatternUtils.getResourcePatternResolver does not accept null arg [SPR-14500] #19069
• LinkedCaseInsensitiveMap doesn't override HashMap.clone() [SPR-14509] #19078
• Do not fail with a circular @Import error caused by an @ComponentScan [SPR-14517] #19086
• StackOverflowError for advisor search against factory-bean reference to FactoryBean [SPR-14551] #19119
• ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in MethodBasedEvaluationContext [SPR-14554] #19122
• SockJS heartbeat is causing application send Message to fail similar to (SPR-14356) [SPR-14564] #19133
• StompSubProtocolHandler responds with ERROR (Session closed.) on DISCONNECT when using SimpleBrokerMessageHandler [SPR-14568] #19137
• Fix assertions in StompHeaderAccessor [SPR-14625] #19192
• ResolvableType for a raw type is not assignable to generic types of the same class [SPR-14648] #19214
• TypeConverterSupport does not propagate custom exceptions anymore [SPR-14661] #19225
• NPE during websocket disconnect [SPR-14703] #19268
• StringUtils.parseLocaleString(): does not parse locale string in java 7 for Serbian (Latin) [SPR-14718] #19283
• exception during websocket client close [SPR-14721] #19286

📔 Documentation

• NoHandlerFoundException is mapped to 404 twice [SPR-14598] #19167

5.0 M1 Release

⭐ New Features

• Revise encoding steps towards use of JDK Charset and StandardCharsets [SPR-14492] #19061
• Avoid deprecated Class.newInstance in favor of constructor-based instantiation [SPR-14486] #19055
• Drop mock.staticmock package from spring-aspects [SPR-14485] #19054
• Resource.isFile() and JAF MediaTypeFactory [SPR-14484] #19053
• Comprehensive Servlet 3.1 support in spring-web and spring-test [SPR-14467] #19036
• Support suppressed exceptions in the TestContext framework [SPR-14459] #19028
• Introduce Supplier message support in org.springframework.util.Assert [SPR-14450] #19020
• Core Spring interfaces declared with Java 8 default methods and @FunctionalInterface markers [SPR-14432] #19003
• Reactive web module [SPR-14161] #18733
• HTTP cookie abstraction [SPR-14160] #18732
• Composition adapters for Reactive Streams [SPR-14159] #18731
• Reactive serialization & deserialization [SPR-14156] #18728
• ByteBuffer abstraction [SPR-14155] #18727
• Reactive Web client [SPR-14154] #18726
• Reactive server web support [SPR-14153] #18725
• Reactive client and server HTTP adapters [SPR-14152] #18724
• Introduce support for creating a MethodParameter from a Java 8 Parameter [SPR-14055] #18627
• XMLUnit 2.x support [SPR-14043] #18615
• Better synchronization in ConcurrentMapCache [SPR-13810] #18383
• ProtobufHttpMessageConverter support for protobuf 3.0.0-beta4 [SPR-13589] #18166
• Introduce support for JUnit 5 in the TestContext framework [SPR-13575] #18151
• Validate method parameter index via Java 8 Method.getParameterCount() [SPR-13456] #18036
• Introduce before/after test execution callbacks in the TestContext framework [SPR-4365] #9043

🪲 Bug Fixes

• ReactorClientHttpConnector assumes that URI.port is valid [SPR-14477] #19046
• Misleading exception message for invalid MethodParameter instance [SPR-14466] #19035

📔 Documentation

• Move "What's New" reference manual chapter to the wiki [SPR-14449] #19019

4.3.2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Avoid JNDI property lookup attempts for invalid JNDI keys [SPR-14518] #19087
• Cache limit for destination cache in SimpleBrokerMessageHandler can't be altered [SPR-14516] #19085
• HeaderContentNegotiationStrategy does not support multiple Accept headers [SPR-14506] #19075
• Non-helpful NoSuchBeanDefinitionException rather than BeanNotOfRequiredTypeException due to creation order [SPR-14504] #19073
• DataSource adapters should expose setCatalog/setSchema next to setUsername/setPassword [SPR-14501] #19070
• GenericSqlQuery configured with RowMapper instance [SPR-14489] #19058
• SerializableTypeWrapper should reobtain type accessors from declaring interface [SPR-14487] #19056
• Avoid dependency on WebUtils for extracting file extension [SPR-14479] #19048
• Workaround for Hibernate bug: setCurrentTenantIdentifierResolver not respected [SPR-14476] #19045
• Missing tests for async request handling with StreamingResponseBody [SPR-14456] #19025
• Hibernate5 LocalSessionFactoryBean does not translate javax.persistence exceptions [SPR-14455] #19024
• UrlPathHelper in PathExtensionContentNegotiationStrategy should be configurable [SPR-14454] #19023
• @RequestMapping consumes/produces InvalidMediaTypeException should mention offending class & method [SPR-14452] #19021
• AnnotationMetadataReadingVisitor does not honour @AliasFor [SPR-14437] #19008
• Add PathEditor to enable conversion to java.nio.file.Path [SPR-14436] #19007
• Avoid canonicalName call for already-seen bean name [SPR-14433] #19004
• When I try to acquire MD5 using DigestUtils, java.lang.OutOfMemoryError occurs. [SPR-14427] #18998

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Do not fail with a circular @Import error caused by an @ComponentScan [SPR-14517] #19086
• Transaction manager bean in TransactionInterceptor retained after JUnit test class completes [SPR-14511] #19080
• LinkedCaseInsensitiveMap doesn't override HashMap.clone() [SPR-14509] #19078
• ResourcePatternUtils.getResourcePatternResolver does not accept null arg [SPR-14500] #19069
• Mis-proxying of Mockito mock and poor diagnostics for type mismatch on proxy injection [SPR-14478] #19047
• NPE while try to use abstract beans with optional properties [SPR-14474] #19043
• Jackson 2.6.x -> 2.7 deserialize generic fails when calling Spring controller [SPR-14470] #19039
• MessageHeaderAccessor doesn't remove headers if they are null [SPR-14468] #19037
• Ineffective synchronization in StandardTypeConverter constructor [SPR-14465] #19034
• CronSequenceGenerator causes StackOverflowError with reversed range values [SPR-14462] #19031
• MultipartResolutionDelegate in Servlet 2.5 environments not working correctly [SPR-14461] #19030
• Flush exception translation not working anymore with Hibernate 5.2 [SPR-14457] #19026
• MethodBasedEvaluationContext.lazyLoadArguments() execution fails for empty variable arguments call [SPR-14453] #19022
• Regression: TestContextManager no longer tracks after-class exception with log level lower than WARN [SPR-14447] #19017
• NoOpCacheManager and @Cacheable(sync=true) [SPR-14445] #19015
• SSE: Terminating chunk not sent using tomcat >= 8.0.35 [SPR-14444] #19014
• HibernateTemplate not binary-compatible with Hibernate 5.0/5.1's Query type [SPR-14425] #18996
• ConfigurationClassParser needs to load annotations through source class loader [SPR-10343] #14977

📔 Documentation

• Documentation still favoring velocity but it is deprecated in 4.3 [SPR-14460] #19029

4.3.1 Release

⭐ New Features

• @MessageExceptionHandler should match cause as well (analogous to @ExceptionHandler) [SPR-14424] #18995
• Defensively access deprecated AbstractHttpClient class from Apache HttpComponents [SPR-14422] #18993
• Convert comma-separated string into list of classes analogous to existing support for class array [SPR-14415] #18986
• Add BasicAuthorizationInterceptor [SPR-14412] #18983
• Enforce UTF-8 encoding in SseEmitter [SPR-14407] #18978
• MvcUriComponentsBuilder should not include empty query parameters in build URI [SPR-14405] #18976
• RequestMappingInfoHandlerMapping.handleNoMatch throws 415 when it should throw 406 [SPR-14397] #18969
• Improve error handling when resolving message payloads [SPR-14394] #18967
• Improve warn logging in AbstractHandlerExceptionResolver [SPR-14392] #18965
• STOMP 1.1 protocol support for client [SPR-14391] #18964
• Multiple load-time-weaver elements cause repeated addition of AspectJ transformer [SPR-14373] #18946
• ForwardedHeaderFilter should support case insensitive header name [SPR-14372] #18945
• Revise PropertySourcesPropertyResolver's default logging and customizability [SPR-14370] #18943
• @WebAppConfiguration fails with ServletServerContainerFactoryBean in the ApplicationContext [SPR-14367] #18939
• ReflectionTestUtils should defensively invoke toString() on target objects [SPR-14363] #18935
• Provide API to expose Spring MVC's ability to match requests [SPR-14321] #18893
• Add exposeProxy to @EnableAspectJAutoProxy [SPR-10454] #15087

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Return type implementing DeferredResult is rejected with exception [SPR-14423] #18994
• Cache infrastructure using AspectJ is not properly configured [SPR-14413] #18984
• Possible issue with handling http method OPTIONS [SPR-14410] #18981
• Regression: DefaultCorsProcessor ignores already present Access-Control-Allow-Origin header [SPR-14406] #18977
• InjectionPoint not propagated by AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor's cached argument resolution [SPR-14400] #18971
• JDBC Connection to reset not identical to originally prepared Connection with Hibernate 5.2 [SPR-14393] #18966
• @JmsListener endpoint @Payload resolution fails due to interplay of new LazyResolutionMessage and MessagingMessageConverterAdapter [SPR-14389] #18962
• Deadlock while creating a new thread on bean initialization with transactional code invocation [SPR-14388] #18961
• HEAD/GET in MVC not fully backward-compatible [SPR-14383] #18956
• Background initialization for Hibernate SessionFactory breaks transaction management [SPR-14379] #18952
• Regression: Static JS files served as 'application/octet-stream' instead of 'application/javascript' [SPR-14368] #18940
• NoSuchMethodError for SessionFactoryImplementor.getProperties() with Hibernate 5.1 [SPR-14365] #18937
• Hibernate 5 SpringSessionSynchronization calls Session.getFlushMode() directly instead of using SessionFactoryUtils.getFlushMode(session) [SPR-14364] #18936
• Failure to resolve @RequestMapping method arguments in Servlet 2.5 environments [SPR-14358] #18930
• SockJs heartbeat during message send closes socket [SPR-14356] #18928

📔 Documentation

• Cache documentation does not mention "sync" attribute. [SPR-14366] #18938
• Migrate to Asciidoctor 1.5 syntax [SPR-14355] #18927
• Small issues with Spring Framework Code Style Guide [SPR-14352] #18924
• Ambiguous sentence in the cache documentation [SPR-14399] #18017