3.2.8 Release

⭐ New Features

• Improve error reporting for issues related to @Controller types requiring AOP proxing [SPR-11281] #15905
• Consistently avoid close() call on Servlet OutputStream [SPR-11413] #16040
• MarshallingView should explicitly skip BindingResult when searching for a model object [SPR-11417] #16044
• Minor CompositeCacheManager revision [SPR-11427] #16053

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Method injection causes memory leak [SPR-10785] #15411
• Velocity springFormCheckboxes macro does not check preselected items correctly [SPR-10837] #15463
• URLs containing %2F (forward slash) are not mapped correctly to @RequestMapping methods [SPR-11101] #15727
• LiveBeansView generates invalid JSON on specific case [SPR-11366] #15992
• StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in AbstractErrors for class-level JSR-303 validator [SPR-11374] #16001
• Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter is susceptible to XXE vulnerability [SPR-11376] #16003
• Potential ClassCastException in RequestContextListener when destroying the request object [SPR-11378] #16005
• Fix off-by-one regression in AbstractMethodMockingControl [SPR-11385] #16012
• PreparedStatement#getParameterMetaData() calls may trigger unwanted side effects [SPR-11386] #16013
• aop:scoped-proxy may fail with LinkageError: loader attempted duplicate class definition for name [SPR-11398] #16025
• EhCacheCacheManager does not wrap runtime-registered caches with TransactionAwareCacheDecorator [SPR-11407] #16034
• MarshallingView should not close response output stream [SPR-11411] #16038
• Inclusion of 'overloaded' in equals() and hashCode() for MethodOverride breaks equals() in AbstractBeanDefinition [SPR-11420] #16047
• resolveFactoryMethodIfPossible should consider nonPublicAccessAllowed flag and SecurityManager scenario [SPR-11422] #16049
• Objects with multi-threaded access should not lazily populate a hash field [SPR-11428] #16054
• Memory leak in ConcurrentReferenceHashMap [SPR-11440] #16066

📔 Documentation

• Broken link into documentation section 21.5.3 [SPR-11404] #16031

4.0.1 Release

⭐ New Features

• @RestController should accept a bean name value [SPR-11360] #15986
• Compatibility with JOpt 4.6 [SPR-11359] #15985
• HibernateJpaVendorAdapter should use new interface when on Hibernate 4.3 [SPR-11358] #15983
• Revisit need for Introspector.flushFromCaches call in CachedIntrospectionResults [SPR-11356] #15981
• @RequestPart(...) MultipartFile[] does not work (List<MultipartFile works) [SPR-11353] #15978
• Provide alternative RestTemplate constructor to avoid default MessageConverter creation [SPR-11351] #15976
• Add Missing Constructors Back to MessageHandlingException [SPR-11345] #15969
• Unnecessary class loading in AspectJ RuntimeTestWalker [SPR-11344] #15968
• Reduce footprint due to RootBeanDefinition [SPR-11343] #15967
• Inconsistent serializable RemoteInvocation(Result) classes [SPR-11337] #15961
• Bootstrapping the EntityManagerFactory should log the name of the persistence unit being used [SPR-11333] #15957
• Include TestContext in log message when starting a new transaction in TransactionalTestExecutionListener [SPR-11323] #15947
• Add control of what HTTP Request method AbstractFileResolvingResource methods exists, lastModified and lastModified uses on http url resources [SPR-11320] #15944
• Provide a mechanism for adding ApplicationContextInitializers to DispatcherServlet's ApplicationContext [SPR-11314] #15938
• Optimize lookup of field errors in AbstractBindingResult [SPR-11304] #15928
• Make conversion framework extensible [SPR-11303] #15927
• Encode user name in user-specific message destinations. [SPR-11302] #15926
• Add patch() to MockMvcRequestBuilders [SPR-11299] #15923
• Re-consider including HibernateTemplate and related classes for Hibernate 4 [SPR-11291] #15915
• Upgrade Tiles2 TilesConfigurer class to Tiles 2.2.2 [SPR-11285] #15909
• ThreadPoolTaskExecutor Should Implement AsyncListenableTaskExecutor [SPR-11282] #15906
• Allow ObjectMapper to be modified within MappingJackson2MessageConverter [SPR-11279] #15903
• GenericMessage unnecessarily copies message headers before passing to MessageHeaders [SPR-11268] #15893
• better method identification in AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource logging [SPR-11267] #15892
• MappingJackson2(Http)MessageConverter should be more verbose in canRead/canWrite checks (on Jackson 2.3) [SPR-11261] #15886
• Add potentially existing orm.xml file to default persistence unit when packages to scan is used [SPR-11260] #15885
• Add Converter implementations that convert legacy Date instances into JDK 8 date/time types [SPR-11259] #15884
• AntPathMatcher creates many temporary objects [SPR-11258] #15883
• Allow configuring RequestMappingHandlerMapping in mvc:annotation-driven [SPR-11253] #15878
• Private constant HttpHeaders.UPGARDE misspelled [SPR-11241] #15866
• HibernateJpaVendorAdapter causes Hibernate 4.3 to produce deprecation warnings [SPR-11240] #15865
• Spring4 MVC Unit test does not compile [SPR-11238] #15863
• Support for JSR-356 on WildFly 8 / Undertow [SPR-11237] #15862
• orm.xml should be recognized by default if using JPA [SPR-11234] #15859
• Allow setting principal on connect [SPR-11228] #15853
• Upgrade to CGLIB 3.1 and Objenesis 2.1 [SPR-11226] #15851
• Provide 'with implementationType' overloads on ResolvableType [SPR-11218] #15843
• Spring formatting with Formatting from String to String and spring:eval does not work [SPR-11215] #15840
• No stack trace on SockJS HTTP transport failure to write to the response [SPR-11201] #15827
• Allow configuring a PathMatcher for use in MappedInterceptor [SPR-11197] #15823
• Support for @Valid in @MessageMapping annotated methods [SPR-11185] #15811
• Allow easier customization of MessageConverters with @EnableWebSocketMessageBroker and XML namespace [SPR-11184] #15810
• Consider improvements to SockJS message cache [SPR-11183] #15809
• client-side stomp authentication headers are passed to the message broker [SPR-11154] #15781
• avoid dependency on reactor-tcp when using a stomp broker relay [SPR-11153] #15780
• Allow @Controller methods to produce a response with no body and custom headers by returning an HttpHeaders instance [SPR-11129] #15755
• Auto-registration of modules (in particular JSR-310 and Joda-Time support) in Jackson's ObjectMapper [SPR-11040] #15668
• Provide access to SimpleTriggerFactoryBean property startTime [SPR-10940] #15568
• tx:annotation-driven and cache:annotation-driven should have order defined as a token [SPR-10886] #15514
• Expose path-related request mapping settings in the MVC XML namespace [SPR-10163] #14796
• CronTriggerFactoryBean doesn't allow calendar name and description to be specified [SPR-9771] #14405
• Improve the performance of BeanInfo lookups in CachedIntrospectionResults [SPR-9014] #13653
• Be able to define tx:annotationdriven order attribute as a ref [SPR-7342] #12001
• JMSTemplate setDeliveryPersistent(boolean deliveryPersistent) javadoc incorrect [SPR-3983] #8663

🪲 Bug Fixes

• CachedIntrospectionResults caching jar entries and creating big pressure on GC [SPR-11818] #16438
• CompoundClassLoader.loadClass is trying to load some framework class and comsuming all web container threads. [SPR-11499] #16124
• Upgrading spring from 3.2 to 4 - Issue with generics (extends) [SPR-11382] #16009
• SchedulerAccessor 'globalJobListeners' and 'globalTriggerListeners' not working with 2.0.x and 2.1.x [SPR-11362] #15988
• BeanWrapper fails in case of read/write method mismatch (e.g. EhCacheFactoryBean.setMemoryStoreEvictionPolicy) [SPR-11361] #15987
• AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer does not allow consolidating all configuration into the "root" context [SPR-11357] #15982
• Regression from 3.2.x for FormattingConversionService.addFormatterForFieldType [SPR-11354] #15979
• SpEL Projection Regression [SPR-11348] [#15972](https://github.c...

3.2.7 Release

⭐ New Features

• JMSTemplate setDeliveryPersistent(boolean deliveryPersistent) javadoc incorrect [SPR-3983] #8663
• Improve the performance of BeanInfo lookups in CachedIntrospectionResults [SPR-9014] #13653
• CronTriggerFactoryBean doesn't allow calendar name and description to be specified [SPR-9771] #14405
• Provide access to SimpleTriggerFactoryBean property startTime [SPR-10940] #15568
• better method identification in AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource logging [SPR-11267] #15892
• Add patch() to MockMvcRequestBuilders [SPR-11299] #15923
• Optimize lookup of field errors in AbstractBindingResult [SPR-11304] #15928
• Provide a mechanism for adding ApplicationContextInitializers to DispatcherServlet's ApplicationContext [SPR-11314] #15938
• Add control of what HTTP Request method AbstractFileResolvingResource methods exists, lastModified and lastModified uses on http url resources [SPR-11320] #15944
• Bootstrapping the EntityManagerFactory should log the name of the persistence unit being used [SPR-11333] #15957
• Reduce footprint due to RootBeanDefinition [SPR-11343] #15967
• Unnecessary class loading in AspectJ RuntimeTestWalker [SPR-11344] #15968
• Provide alternative RestTemplate constructor to avoid default MessageConverter creation [SPR-11351] #15976
• Compatibility with JOpt 4.6 [SPR-11359] #15985

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix @Bean meta-annotation detection when using ASM [SPR-10488] #15121
• theme resolution fails with "IllegalArgumentException: Basename must not be empty" when an empty theme value is provided via request url [SPR-11128] #15754
• context:component-scan element says error in the mvc-cofig.xml [SPR-11221] #15846
• Backward compatibility of BeanUtils.copyProperties broken for copying wrapped types to primitive types (and vice versa) on 3.2.6 and 4.0.0 [SPR-11231] #15856
• Regression: InjectionMetadata cache needs to handle different bean classes per bean name [SPR-11246] #15871
• XMLEventStreamWriter fails to handle writeEmptyElement() followed by writeAttribute() [SPR-11254] #15879
• EhCacheFactoryBean should not call set(Sampled)StatisticsEnabled on EhCache 2.7/2.8 [SPR-11265] #15890
• @Async with cglib based proxy causes memory leak in heap [SPR-11275] #15899
• @Async with cglib based proxy causes memory leak in permgen [SPR-11276] #15900
• Full Quartz 2.2 compatibility, including LocalDataSourceJobStore [SPR-11284] #15908
• StandardEnvironment's system environment access produces warning with stacktrace on WebSphere [SPR-11297] #15921
• Bad type comparison in ReflectionHelper.getTypeDifferenceWeight(List paramTypes, List argTypes) [SPR-11306] #15930
• ServletWebRequest.checkNotModified() methods should treat HEAD identically to GET [SPR-11317] #15941
• Wrong assert in AspectJAwareAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.setAspectJAdvisorFactory() [SPR-11330] #15954
• ServletTestExecutionListener is not enabled by default in abstract base test classes [SPR-11340] #15964
• PlaceholderConfigurerSupport.doProcessProperties() loses stack trace on exception [SPR-11346] #15970
• Handle NoClassDefFoundError for TestExecutionListeners consistently in the TestContext framework [SPR-11347] #15971
• AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer does not allow consolidating all configuration into the "root" context [SPR-11357] #15982
• BeanWrapper fails in case of read/write method mismatch (e.g. EhCacheFactoryBean.setMemoryStoreEvictionPolicy) [SPR-11361] #15987
• SchedulerAccessor 'globalJobListeners' and 'globalTriggerListeners' not working with 2.0.x and 2.1.x [SPR-11362] #15988
• CompoundClassLoader.loadClass is trying to load some framework class and comsuming all web container threads. [SPR-11499] #16124
• StatementCreatorUtils introduces java 1.6 dependency [SPR-11349] #15974
• NoClassDefFoundError with Spring 3.2.7.BUILD-SNAPSHOT on WebSphere 6.1 [SPR-11341] #15965
• Downgrade accidental use of Java 1.6 APIs [SPR-11321] #15945
• spring-jdbc-3.2.6.RELEASE doesn't support JDK 5. [SPR-11313] #15937
• @Enable registrars invoked with subclass for annotation placed on superclass (3.2.x) [SPR-11251] #15876

4.0 GA Release

⭐ New Features

• Lock error is not translated to PessimisticLockingFailureException or subclass when using JPA (Hibernate) [SPR-11670] #16293
• A GuavaCache implementation of org.springframework.cache.Cache [SPR-11216] #15841
• Rename @PathVariable to @DestinationVariable in spring-messaging [SPR-11208] #15833
• EhCacheManagerFactoryBean should share per cacheManagerName and only call shutdown if it originally created its CacheManager [SPR-11178] #15804
• Minor issue with fix for CVE 2010-1622 [SPR-11098] #15724
• Map "Foreign key constraint violation occurred" Sybase error code to DataIntegrityViolationException [SPR-11097] #15723
• RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor should not kick in for factory-bean definitions [SPR-10458] #15091
• Allow for ignoreResourceNotFound on @PropertySource [SPR-10325] #14959
• Expression evaluator should accept raw collection value for parameterized method argument [SPR-7831] #12487
• Sort the scanned entity classes when creating an Hibernate SessionFactory [SPR-7742] #12398

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Recently changes of GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor breaks BeanUtils.copyProperties() [SPR-11209] #15834
• FactoryBean bean type detection can causes fatal early instantiation [SPR-11202] #15828
• XStreamMarshaller doesn't set the converterRegistry field with XStream 1.4.5 [SPR-11147] #15774
• ServletTestExecutionListener breaks old code [SPR-11144] #15771
• Images in docbook generated PDF are too large [SPR-11143] #15769
• Fix tests related to java.beans.BeanInfo changes in JDK8-b117 [SPR-11139] #15765
• Dependency Injection issue when using ManagedMap or ManagedList in BeanDefinitionParser [SPR-11131] #15757
• Cannot autowire qualified scoped-proxy @Bean definitions [SPR-11116] #15742
• Type resolution fails for uninitialized factory-method declaration [SPR-11112] #15738
• "CglibAopProxy: Unable to proxy method" WARN when bean class contains static final method [SPR-11107] #15733
• performancedrop due to repeated JDBC 3.0 getParameterType calls in setNull in StatementCreatorUtils [SPR-11100] #15726
• If the !profile selector is used the other profiles can be ignored in [SPR-11093] #15719
• ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider.findCandidateComponents fails on private meta-attributes [SPR-11091] #15717
• Use StoredProcedure to call sp, if not set the rowmapper for out parameter which type is cursor, will throw null pointer exception [SPR-11076] #15702
• MBeanExporter/MBeanRegistrationSupport lack synchronization [SPR-11002] #15630
• Remove integer conversion in JmsListenerContainerParser [SPR-10986] #15614
• @Qualifier Change of Behavior 4.0 Vs 3.x with Qualified Bean in Parent Context [SPR-10966] #15594
• Security vulnerabilities in Spring v2.5.6 and v3.2.4 [SPR-10912] #15540
• In spring MVC portlet, @resourceMapping doesn't work. [SPR-10791] #15417
• Cannot override singleton with scoped proxy [SPR-10744] #15370
• StackOverflowError when expression calls method which is a Collection of itself [SPR-9735] #14369
• Java config FactoryBean proxy causes class loader leak [SPR-9274] #13912

📔 Documentation

• Document MVC timezone support [SPR-11203] #15829
• Document scripting updates (JRuby 1.5, Groovy 1.8) [SPR-11200] #15826
• Document @Description [SPR-11194] #15820
• Document Servlet 3.0 in "Initial web configuration" [SPR-11190] #15816
• Remove EBR details from docs [SPR-11189] #15815
• Document @Conditional [SPR-11188] #15814
• Document SimpleKeyGenerator default in migration guide [SPR-11187] #15813
• Document AsyncRestTemplate [SPR-11182] #15808
• update/remove parts of "Integrating with other web frameworks" section [SPR-11181] #15807
• Check docs for references to Tiles v1 [SPR-11180] #15806
• update interceptors documentation [SPR-11175] #15801
• document new deprecations in the migration guide [SPR-11174] #15800
• mention updates in resttemplate documentation [SPR-11173] #15799
• Mention suffix pattern match in contentnegotiationmanager doc [SPR-11172] #15798
• Delete "migrating to spring 3.x" sections [SPR-11171] #15797
• document Environment and PropertySource abstractions [SPR-11170] #15796
• Document Bean definition profiles [SPR-11169] #15795
• Remove references to DTD from docs [SPR-11166] #15792
• Document the -bom [SPR-11163] #15789
• Remove all references to Amazon S3 repo [SPR-11162] #15788
• Mention Gradle in the docs [SPR-11161] #15787
• Remove EBR section from docs [SPR-11160] #15786
• Remove community download section from docs [SPR-11159] #15785
• Check references to struts [SPR-11157] #15783
• Update figure 1 to include messaging module [SPR-11155] #15782
• Add a section with all Java SE and Java EE support info [SPR-11151] #15778
• Document @ControllerAdvice [SPR-11149] #15776
• Update and/or migrate "what's new in spring 3" "migrating to..." sections [SPR-11148] #15775
• What's New in 4.0 section in reference documentation [SPR-11120] #15746
• Document meta-annotation support in the TestContext framework [SPR-11109] #15735
• Remove all references to ibatis [SPR-11156] #15469
• Update the release process regarding change log generation [SPR-9740] #14374

3.2.6 Release

⭐ New Features

• Expression evaluator should accept raw collection value for parameterized method argument [SPR-7831] #12487
• Map "Foreign key constraint violation occurred" Sybase error code to DataIntegrityViolationException [SPR-11097] #15723
• Minor issue with fix for CVE 2010-1622 [SPR-11098] #15724
• Add Maven 'bill-of-materials' project for 3.2.x [SPR-11204] #15512

🪲 Bug Fixes

• In spring MVC portlet, @resourceMapping doesn't work. [SPR-10791] #15417
• Security vulnerabilities in Spring v2.5.6 and v3.2.4 [SPR-10912] #15540
• Remove integer conversion in JmsListenerContainerParser [SPR-10986] #15614
• MBeanExporter/MBeanRegistrationSupport lack synchronization [SPR-11002] #15630
• Use StoredProcedure to call sp, if not set the rowmapper for out parameter which type is cursor, will throw null pointer exception [SPR-11076] #15702
• ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider.findCandidateComponents fails on private meta-attributes [SPR-11091] #15717
• If the !profile selector is used the other profiles can be ignored in [SPR-11093] #15719
• performancedrop due to repeated JDBC 3.0 getParameterType calls in setNull in StatementCreatorUtils [SPR-11100] #15726
• "CglibAopProxy: Unable to proxy method" WARN when bean class contains static final method [SPR-11107] #15733
• Type resolution fails for uninitialized factory-method declaration [SPR-11112] #15738
• Cannot autowire qualified scoped-proxy @Bean definitions [SPR-11116] #15742
• Dependency Injection issue when using ManagedMap or ManagedList in BeanDefinitionParser [SPR-11131] #15757
• Fix tests related to java.beans.BeanInfo changes in JDK8-b117 [SPR-11139] #15765
• ServletTestExecutionListener breaks old code [SPR-11144] #15771
• Recently changes of GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor breaks BeanUtils.copyProperties() [SPR-11209] #15834
• ReflectivePropertyAccessor should not consider "is" methods with non boolean returns [SPR-11142] #15768
• Support multiple comma-separated values in X-Forwarded-Host header [SPR-11140] #15766
• EhCacheFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet should be synchronized [SPR-11132] #15758
• Spring caching: combining multiple @Cacheable within @Caching annotation doesn't work [SPR-11124] #15750
• EhCacheFactoryBean fails when statistics are enabled [SPR-11080] #15706

4.0 RC2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Support placeholder in EnableMBeanExport [SPR-11105] #15731
• Upgrade Jetty to version 9.1.0 GA [SPR-11099] #15725
• Add support for default prefix in @SendTo and @SendToUser annotations [SPR-11085] #15711
• Allow InstrumentationSavingAgent for usage with Attach API [SPR-11083] #15709
• Improve process of subscribing to a user/session-specific STOMP destination [SPR-11077] #15703
• Add BeanFactory.getBeanNamesWithAnnotation(Class<?>, boolean, boolean) for parity with getBeansOfType(...) [SPR-11069] #15696
• Support JCA 1.7 [SPR-11067] #15694
• Replace SubscribableChannel with AbstractSubscribableChannel in WebSocketMessageBrokerConfigurationSupport [SPR-11065] #15692
• Provide XML Namespace for Configuring WebSocket and STOMP [SPR-11063] #15690
• Add org.springframework.cache.Cache.get(key, type) [SPR-11061] #15688
• Impossible to customise Hibernate RegionFactory [SPR-11056] #15683
• Support meta-annotation attribute overrides in the TestContext framework [SPR-11038] #15666
• ConfigurationClass.validate() should allow for overloading in general or not at all [SPR-11025] #15653
• Migrate from docbook to asciidoctor [SPR-10960] #15588
• @EnableTransactionManagement and co should also get detected on superclasses [SPR-10864] #15491
• Improve behavior in accidental error cases for AOP, JavaConfig and too broad pointcuts [SPR-10561] #15191
• Support BigDecimals with SpEL [SPR-9164] #13802
• Improve failure mode when depends-on cycles exist [SPR-7966] #12621

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix casing in spring mvc namespace attributes "enableMatrixVariables" and "ignoreDefaultModelOnRedirect" [SPR-11136] #15762
• IllegalStateException prevents STOMP/WebSocket app from starting on Wildfly [SPR-11111] #15737
• AnnotationUtils fails to retrieve attribute values from non-public annotations [SPR-11104] #15730
• Corrupted WebSocket messages by multi-threaded publishing to external clients [SPR-11102] #15728
• Connection to STOMP broker closed after a few successful messages are read [SPR-11088] #15714
• @PropertySources fails on JDK 7 due to @Repeatable [SPR-11086] #15712
• Websocket connection fails with /websocket Stomp Endpoint [SPR-11058] #15685
• FormTag generates hidden fields from RequestDataValueProcessor.getExtraHiddenFields(...) without container, resulting in invalid xhtml [SPR-10926] #15554
• MockMvc can't be test under multiple threads. [SPR-10838] #15464
• SpEL: OpEQ should use equals() [SPR-9194] #13832

📔 Documentation

• Polish asciidoctor [SPR-11096] #15722
• Error in docs, part 6.5.5 Configuring a ConversionService [SPR-10802] #15428

3.2.5 Release

⭐ New Features

• Disable the processing of external entities in SourceHttpMessageConverter by default [SPR-11078] #15704
• Avoid unnecessary char[] allocation in NamedParameterUtils [SPR-11042] #15670
• Spring doesn't parse jndi variables default values to match the expected-type [SPR-11039] #15667
• Methods in AnnotationConfigUtils.processCommonDefinitionAnnotations(…) should be public [SPR-11032] #15660
• PropertyOrFieldReference suffers from potential NullPointerException [SPR-11031] #15659
• ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner INFO logging on JSR 330 [SPR-10974] #15602
• Make createRequestMappingInfo in RequestMappingHandlerMapping protected [SPR-10950] #15578
• Add XStream CatchAllConverter [SPR-10821] #15447
• Order of values in @PropertySource annotation depends on name attribute [SPR-10820] #15446

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Cannot override singleton with scoped proxy [SPR-10744] #15370
• ClasspathXmlApplicationContext does not inherit/merge parent context environment [SPR-11068] #15695
• MockHttpServletRequestBuilder not handling parameter without value [SPR-11043] #15671
• @Autowired setter randomly called twice or not called at all when two beans of the same class [SPR-11027] #15655
• Bean definitions using indexed constructor arguments are not usable for @Autowired resolution [SPR-11019] #15647
• Unecessary logging about setNull with Oracle driver [SPR-11017] #15645
• Cannot override initializer of @ContextConfiguration when using @ContextHierarchy [SPR-10997] #15625
• TypeConverterDelegate standard conversion changes single element array to a class instance when trying to convert to Object [SPR-10996] #15624
• Spring cannot find setter if subclass overrides getter narrowing return type [SPR-10995] #15623
• @Bean overriding does not pick up metadata from most specific method [SPR-10992] #15620
• JavaConfig Bean overriding with addition [SPR-10988] #15616
• Mallforme Content-Type is not translated to 415 status code [SPR-10982] #15610
• LiteralExpression.getValue doesn't propagate 'EvaluationContext' to 'ExpressionUtils' for conversion [SPR-10953] #15581
• AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster throws NPE when ApplicationEvent's source is null [SPR-10945] #15573
• Invoking RedirectView.render from within a filter throws null pointer exception [SPR-10937] #15565
• @Resource is always marked as shareable [SPR-10931] #15559
• Fix 'problem locating method' SpEL error message [SPR-10928] #15556
• Typo on spring mvc reference docs : 'ContentNeogitatingViewResolver' [SPR-10927] #15555
• Duplicate scan of @Import annotations when inherited from another annotation [SPR-10918] #15546
• ArrayStoreException scanning subclassed enum annotation array with multiple values [SPR-10914] #15542
• Ehcache with RMI replication bug [SPR-10904] #15532
• Wrong translation of MS SQL Server RAISERROR [SPR-10902] #15530
• Memory Leak in AbstractBeanFactory, alreadyCreated HashSet not cleaned on failure in doGetBean [SPR-10896] #15524
• Abstract method mocking prints wrong call count in exception [SPR-10885] #15513
• Race condition in org.springframework.expression.spel.ast.MethodReference [SPR-10884] #15511
• Async DeferredResult OpenSessionInViewFilter [SPR-10874] #15501
• NullPointerException thrown by ExtendedBeanInfo with IBM J9 VM [SPR-10862] #15489
• AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext.register cannot be called multiple times [SPR-10852] #15479
• NPE in RestTemplate with Resource implementation where getFilename() returns null [SPR-10848] #15475
• spring-jms 3.0.4 introduces a change that breaks using JMSTemplate (and for that matter any JMS resource) with Oracle AQ when JMS Session are used in SESSION_TRANSACTED mode. [SPR-10829] #15455
• JaxB2Marshaller passes null InputSource to SaxSource constructor under certain condition [SPR-10828] #15454
• GenericTypeResolver does not resolve the correct parameter type when bound type is also ParameterizedType [SPR-10819] #15445
• MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter and MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter should use configured JSON prefix instead of hardcoded value. [SPR-10817] #15443
• MemoryLeak in AntPathMatcher during caching AntPathStringMatcher instances [SPR-10803] #15429
• BeanDefinitions registered using BeanDefinitionRegistry not always eligible for autowiring when using @Qualifier [SPR-10736] #15364
• Relax JavaBean rules for SpEL property access [SPR-10716] #15344
• SimpleJdbcCall: Function return type (REF CURSOR) should be resolved properly. [SPR-10606] #15235
• SpEL fails if class.name and name is evaluated in the same context [SPR-10486] #15119
• SPEL and Enum variable resolution using wrong cachedExecutor [SPR-10452] #15085
• Advisor silently skipped if it is currently in creation [SPR-10430] #15063
• Return type prediction for generic factory method fails if type conversion of method arguments is necessary [SPR-10411] #15044
• MethodResolver results are cached in SpEL expressions, so changing the context at evaluation time has no effect [SPR-9495] #14129

📔 Documentation

• Elvis operator will return "Nikola Tesla" and not "Mike Tesla" in ref docs [SPR-10850] #15477

4.0 RC1 Release

⭐ New Features

• Support class-level mappings via @MessageMapping or @SubscribeEvent [SPR-11024] #15652
• ScriptExecutor for JSR-223 [SPR-11007] #15635
• Update json-path dependency to 0.9.0 [SPR-10990] #15618
• Add support for resolving message header based arguments [SPR-10985] #15613
• Introduce ResolvableType Class [SPR-10973] #15601
• Provide option to configure "host" header in CONNECT frames to STOMP message brokers [SPR-10955] #15583
• Support @PathVariable in annotated message handling methods [SPR-10949] #15577
• SpEL: Make EvaluationException more informative with Expression [SPR-10938] #15566
• Add "ignoreResourceNotFound" attribute to the @PropertySource [SPR-10932] #15560
• Add IssueManagement declaration to POMs [SPR-10929] #15557
• PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor.setBeanFactory(BeanFactory) causes unwanted early initialization [SPR-10894] #15522
• Potential out-of-memory in AbstractSockJsService [SPR-10893] #15521
• Validate if body is allowed in StompMessageConverter for the given command [SPR-10890] #15518
• Provide support for using multiple MessageConverters depending on the Content-Type of a STOMP message [SPR-10889] #15517
• Use ListenableFuture as the return value in WebSocketClient methods [SPR-10888] #15516
• Make conversion framework extensible for non-Java classes [SPR-10887] #15515
• ThreadPoolTaskScheduler setPoolSize() unable to change the pool size at runtime [SPR-10883] #15510
• oxm:jibx-marshaller lacks support for "target-package" annotation [SPR-10882] #15509
• Switch to Jetty's @WebSocket (from WebSocketListener) [SPR-10877] #15504
• Add STOMP heartbeat support [SPR-10845] #15472
• Add support for extensions during WebSocket handshake [SPR-10843] #15470
• Compatibility problems with Hibernate 4.3.0.Beta1 and newer [SPR-10839] #15465
• Hibernate 4 Multi Tenancy Feature Support [SPR-10823] #15449
• Enhance Stomp support to handle frames with NULL octets in the body [SPR-10818] #15444
• Provide support for pattern matching in MockMvcResultMatchers.redirectedUrl() [SPR-10789] #15415
• Use Tomcat 8's new instrumentable WebappClassLoader [SPR-10788] #15414
• add support for MockRestServiceServer to verify that a header does not exist [SPR-10771] #15397
• Add ability to create proxy around classes that has no default constructor [SPR-10594] #15223
• FilterType enum should have ASPECTJ, REGEX constants for AspectJTypeFilter, RegexPatternTypeFilter [SPR-10593] #15222
• RestTemplate does not support IPv6 raw address (as opposed to hostname) [SPR-10539] #15169
• MVC DispatcherServlet throw exception in noHandlerFound [SPR-10481] #15114
• enhance Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean to allow setting of (De)SerializerModifiers [SPR-10429] #15062
• Off by one error in StringUtils.parseLocaleString [SPR-10364] #14996
• Allow @ControllerAdvice to be cofigured with a join point to target a subset of controller [SPR-10222] #14855
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter should deal with the If-Match HTTP Header [SPR-10164] #14797
• Autowiring of generic types [SPR-9965] #14599
• Provide mechanism for creating links to controllers and controller methods [SPR-8826] #13468
• Add @PropertySources annotation and support ignoreResourceNotFound [SPR-8371] #13018
• Support Servlet 3.1 (JSR-340) [SPR-8193] #12842
• Provide meta-annotation support for test-related annotations [SPR-7827] #12483
• Convert TestContext to interface and introduce default implementation [SPR-7692] #12348
• Migrate Grails BeanBuilder into Spring Core [SPR-7123] #11783
• Create CGLIB proxy instances honoring tags [SPR-3150] #7836
• Spring i18n needs TimeZone resolution as well as Locale resolution. [SPR-1528] #6227

🪲 Bug Fixes

• HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory method signature changes prevent user code from supporting Spring 3 and Spring 4 simultaneously [SPR-11053] #15680
• GenericTypeResolver.resolveTypeArguments(…) returns Object for raw types [SPR-11052] #15679
• Spring web depends on a beta release of Apache HTTP Client [SPR-11050] #15677
• NPE in MatchAlwaysTransactionAttributeSource [SPR-11048] #15675
• Unable to autowire concrete classes when java config methods return interface [SPR-11046] #15673
• ResolvableType can throw NPE when resolving Generic Arrays [SPR-11044] #15672
• NPE in ResolvableType.hasUnresolvableGenerics [SPR-11034] #15662
• Potential NPE on result of GenericTypeResolver.resolveTypeArguments [SPR-11030] #15658
• groovy-all should not be a mandatory dependency [SPR-11028] #15656
• "Illegal instant due to time zone offset transition" when binding with LocalDate (joda) in Controller handler [SPR-11014] #15642
• TypeDescriptor can no longer be programatically created with null generics [SPR-11006] #15634
• Autowiring of types narrows with generics does not work [SPR-11004] #15632
• Generic autowiring should support wiring of components with unresolved type variables [SPR-10993] #15621
• Regression with detecting nested components [SPR-10970] #15598
• HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.convertHttpInvokerAccessException implementation throws the RemoteAccessException instead of return it [SPR-10965] #15593
• Keep "cookie_needed" property in SockJS service enabled by default [SPR-10939] #15567
• Server sends SEND stomp frames back to the client instead of MESSAGE frames [SPR-10930] #15558
• getSockJsPath() method in org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.support.AbstractSockJsService returns wrong path [SPR-10923] #15551
• RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.createDataBinderFactory has a return type of ServletRequestDataBinderFactory [SPR-10920] #15548
• @RestController causing errors [SPR-10905] [#15533](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/...

4.0 M3 Release

⭐ New Features

• Can @Profile be @Documented [SPR-10967] #15595
• Add support for sending Ping and Pong WebSocket messages as well as for handling incoming Pong messages [SPR-10876] #15503
• Implement ChannelInterceptor-like feature for SockJS/WebSocket/STOMP messages [SPR-10866] #15493
• Add client and server-side WebSocket container configuration support [SPR-10844] #15471
• MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup() ignores controller path mapping URIs' placeholders [SPR-10825] #15451
• Untranslated Hibernate exception [SPR-10815] #15441
• Add @RestController to stereotype a controller that is going to be used for @ResponseBody rendering [SPR-10814] #15440
• Stereotype @Profiles not merged [SPR-10812] #15438
• Make it possible to configure serialization inclusion for Jackson ObjectMapper [SPR-10810] #15436
• Make the use of JSON library in the SockJS service configurable [SPR-10800] #15426
• Add support for discovering JPA 2.1 @Converter during scanning [SPR-10799] #15425
• Allow headers to be set on WebSocketConnectionManager [SPR-10796] #15422
• Add LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean missing methods to easily replace elements in persistence.xml [SPR-10764] #15390
• Request streaming for HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory [SPR-10728] #15356
• Add recovery-interval to jms:listener-container [SPR-10711] #15339
• Make UriComponents.UriTemplateVariables public [SPR-10647] #15275
• Allow BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor to register other BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessors [SPR-10630] #15258
• Provide access to attributes from the handshake HTTP session [SPR-10624] #15252
• Allow @Bean to override a dynamically registered bean definition [SPR-10607] #15236
• New @Description annotation to add description field to BeanDefinition when using annotation based configuration [SPR-10583] #15212
• @RequestMapping inheritance not worked as expect with a dot path [SPR-10554] #15185
• Assign lowest priority to "/**" in AntPathMatcher [SPR-10550] #15181
• MarshallingHttpMessageConverter#supports() is not symmetric [SPR-10463] #15096
• Add time zone support to the @Scheduled annotation for cron jobs [SPR-10456] #15089
• UriComponentsBuilder should provide a way to remove the extension from the path [SPR-10272] #14906
• Allow usage of @Lazy on injection points [SPR-10353] #14896
• Allow meta-annotations to override attributes from their parent [SPR-10181] #14814
• Comprehensive support for Java 8 / OpenJDK 8 [SPR-9639] #14273
• Support for WebSocket messaging [SPR-9356] #13994
• Support an asynchronous API for RestTemplate [SPR-8804] #13446
• Make org.springframework.http.MediaType Serializable [SPR-8738] #13380
• Doc: gzip support in RestTemplate [SPR-7874] #12531
• Autowiring should support ordered collection driven by Order annotation or Ordered interface [SPR-5574] #10245

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Stomp passcode should not be included in plain text in log messages [SPR-10868] #15495
• WebSocket support on Jetty always uses SockJS HTTP fallbacks [SPR-10861] #15488
• NoSuchMethodError: MediaType.isCompatibleWithMediaType;) [SPR-10860] #15487
• Spring no longer recognizes mapped classes [SPR-10826] #15452
• NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.util.MultiValueMap.getOrDefault(Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;) [SPR-10807] #15433
• SpringConfigurator uses ListableBeanFactory method which is documented to be slow for EVERY new WebSocket connection [SPR-10605] #15234

📔 Documentation

• Modify Spring 4.x documentation to reflect JSR-349 support [SPR-10813] #15439

3.2.4 Release

⭐ New Features

• Fix potential security risk when using Spring OXM [SPR-10806] #15432
• Fix SimpleJdbc{Call,Insert} Javadoc [SPR-10792] #15418
• Make HttpHeaders getFirstDate(String headerName) and setDate(String headerName, long date) methods as public [SPR-10713] #15341
• WebAsyncUtils could/should cache the reference to StandardServletAsyncWebRequest's constructor [SPR-10673] #15301
• Configurable JSON prefix on MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter and MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter [SPR-10627] #15255
• Add ability to check that attribute does not exist in Spring MVC test framework [SPR-10509] #15141
• XStreamMarshaller - no way to set a MapperWrapper on XStream [SPR-10421] #15054
• Unnecessary blocking in DelegatingFilterProxy [SPR-10413] #15046

🪲 Bug Fixes

• ResourceHttpRequestHandler always logs warning [SPR-10780] #15407
• UriComponentsBuilder should be case-insensitive when parsing URL scheme names [SPR-10779] #15406
• Spring + Quartz 2.2.0 Integration is Inconsistent [SPR-10775] #15401
• is read incorrectly in PersistenceUnitReader [SPR-10767] #15393
• JDBC Connection is not released due to incorrectly defined catch [SPR-10755] #15381
• setPrefixJson don't work in org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJackson2JsonView and org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView [SPR-10752] #15378
• spring-instrument has unused dependency on spring-core [SPR-10732] #15360
• spring-instrument is lacking Java 7 instrumentation manifest attributes [SPR-10731] #15359
• method demarcated with @Async isn't executed when precompiled [SPR-10715] #15343
• ClassPathJaxb2TypeScanner which scans packagesToScan for Jaxb2Marshaller does not scan for @XmlRegistry annotation [SPR-10714] #15342
• Spring 3.2.2 AOP has increased memory usage [SPR-10709] #15337
• ServletUriComponentsBuilder doesn't work if X-Forwarded-Host is in host:port format [SPR-10701] #15329
• ${} placeholders are not resolved in @ImportResource [SPR-10686] #15314
• ContentNegotiatingViewResolver does not select any views if no content types are requested [SPR-10683] #15311
• BeanFactory.getBeansWithAnnotation() should not consider abstract beans [SPR-10663] #15291
• Cached MethodExecutor invokes wrong method [SPR-10657] #15285
• Missing RmiInvocationWrapperRTD.xml (build problem?) [SPR-10649] #15277
• HttpHeaders should be tolerant with bad date-aware headers as it said in the RFC 2616 [SPR-10648] #15276
• ConfigurationClassPostProcessor should be Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE [SPR-10645] #15273
• Invocation of @Async service fails [SPR-10636] #15264
• TypeDescriptor must be Serializable [SPR-10631] #15259
• UnionMethodMatcher and ClassFilterAwareUnionMethodMatcher have broken eqauls. [SPR-10604] #15233
• Rename HttpHeaders#getIfNotModifiedSince() to getIfModifiedSince() to avoid confusing [SPR-10600] #15229
• ClassCastException on meta @Components with not Spring value [SPR-10580] #15209
• Revert change for SPR-10402 that allowed treating empty values as missing values [SPR-10578] #15207
• Spring3.2 bug context:property-placeholder nested search property appear java.lang.StackOverflowError [SPR-10549] #15180
• Async does not work anymore when switching from 3.2 to 3.2.2 [SPR-10492] #15125

📔 Documentation

• Documentation Error: rollbackForClassname is listed, should be rollbackForClassName (notice UPPERcase N) [SPR-10754] #15380
• SQL syntax error in jdbcTemplate update example [SPR-10625] #15253
• Doc: JMS CachingConnectionFactory incompatible with DefaultMessageListenerContainer in some circumstances [SPR-10581] #15210