4.0 M2 Release

⭐ New Features

• XPath expressions in Spring MVC Test fail when using the default namespace [SPR-10704] #15332
• Documentation in 17.15.3 Configuring Interceptors incorrect [SPR-10670] #15298
• Make #result available for SpEL in @CachePut key attribute [SPR-10664] #15292
• Add expected header name to assert message for HeaderResultMatchers [SPR-10659] #15287
• @CacheEvict key should allow referencing return value [SPR-10658] #15286
• Typo in ModelAndViewMethodReturnValueHandler's JavaDoc [SPR-10650] #15278
• Ensure that method and requestURI fields are non-null in MockHttpServletRequest [SPR-10643] #15271
• Introduce deleteFromTableWhere() in abstract transactional base classes in the TestContext Framework [SPR-10639] #15267
• Introduce java.nio.file.Path based Resource implementation [SPR-10608] #15237
• Make result-data accessible in onCompletion Event in DeferredResult [SPR-10603] #15232
• ImportSelector and ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrar should be able to implement EnvironmentAware [SPR-10602] #15231
• SimpleCommandLinePropertySource could be enumerable [SPR-10579] #15208
• Support for @Conditional @Configuration [SPR-10534] #15164
• Create MockHttpServletRequestBuilder.accept(String ...mediatTypes) overload. [SPR-10390] #15023
• Introduce ActiveProfilesResolver in the TestContext framework [SPR-10338] #14972
• Make form method accessible to RequestDataValueProcessor [SPR-10041] #14675
• Support implicit ports for MockHttpServletRequest.getRequestURL() [SPR-9726] #14360
• Add spring:argument subtag for spring:message [SPR-9678] #14312
• Introduce TCP & UDP server port scanning utility [SPR-8032] #12687
• MockHttpSession methods should throw IllegalStateException if invalid [SPR-7659] #12315

🪲 Bug Fixes

• PathResourceTests fail on Windows [SPR-10770] #15396
• Ensure ParamTag release resources [SPR-10769] #15395
• Turn down logging in DefaultListableBeanFactory [SPR-10758] #15384
• Could not build from sources [SPR-10751] #15377
• WebSocketHttpRequestHandler constructor doesn't use handshakeHandler [SPR-10721] #15349
• Regression in SharedEntityManagerCreator [SPR-10678] #15306
• Include all SQL statements in batch fail exception [SPR-10677] #15305
• Self-injection in configuration class hierarchies broken [SPR-10668] #15296
• JdbcTemplate.queryForObject throws TypeMismatchDataAccessException when used per the reference manual [SPR-10651] #15279
• Support @Configuration class parsing fallback to ASM [SPR-10646] #15274
• AbstractMethodError thrown within MethodValidationInterceptor [SPR-10644] #15272
• JsonpTransportHandler read message header problem [SPR-10621] #15249
• Do not consider all @Component instances as @Configuration candidates [SPR-10609] #15238
• Documentation issues in @RequestMapping [SPR-10587] #15216
• Fix getters to match setters in RequestMappingHandlerAdapter [SPR-10519] #15150
• view/ JSP compilation exceptions, not logged from JstlView or DispatcherServlet. [SPR-10340] #14974
• Cacheable key collision with DefaultKeyGenerator [SPR-10237] #14870

3.2.3 Release

⭐ New Features

• Enforce JDK version on CI server [SPR-10569] #15198
• Configurable JSON prefix on MappingJackson2JsonView and MappingJacksonJsonView [SPR-10567] #15196
• Small clarification to CronTrigger javadoc [SPR-10556] #15186
• AnnotationAwareOrderComparator does not work on proxied classes [SPR-10514] #15145
• Improve defaulting of media types via ContentNegotiationManager [SPR-10513] #15144
• Jaxb2Marshaller doesn't need to depend on ResourceLoaderAware and thus spring-context [SPR-10512] #15143
• No way to ask MethodReference for its private field 'name' [SPR-10422] #15055
• Make implementations of PreparedStatementSetter public, not package-private [SPR-10375] #15008
• OXM Jaxb2Unmarshaller to support non-root elements [SPR-10282] #14916

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Large number of StandardEnvironment objects are initialised during startup. Visible in the logs at DEBUG level. [SPR-10568] #15197
• Cannot instantiate bean in Spring when using annotations and when it extends generic abstract class compiled to java 1.4 byte code [SPR-10559] #15189
• BeanPropertyRowMapper underscoreName [SPR-10547] #15177
• Loading @Import(ChildConfig) or EnclosingConfig.ChildConfig and then ChildConfig does not load beans on ParentConfig [SPR-10546] #15176
• Lookup of beans of type fails for factory beans if type prediction is used. [SPR-10517] #15148
• AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType returns parent type instead of class="" value [SPR-10507] #15139
• Deadlocks with DeferredResult timeout handling on Tomcat [SPR-10485] #15118
• ServletContextResourcePatternResolver fails to resolve resources when an app is using a foo#bar.war filename [SPR-10471] #15104
• cannot delete file once resttemplate has done a multipart postforentity with the said file [SPR-10460] #15093
• NPE in the ContextLoader#customizeContext on building Assert.isAssignable message [SPR-10449] #15082
• Sporadic deadlocks while using servlet scoped beans from another thread. [SPR-10436] #15069
• A URI with URL path parameters causes IllegalStateException [SPR-10427] #15060
• PropertyEditor registered through @ControllerAdvice will not be superseded by local one. [SPR-10419] #15052
• Request @RequestParam not enforced with empty values [SPR-10402] #15035
• spring3.2 matrix variable url match problem [SPR-10398] #15031
• PooledConnection has already been closed exception with Hibernate 4.2 [SPR-10395] #15028
• Typo in Code Example [SPR-10394] #15027
• ReflectiveMethodResolver causes UnsupportedOperationException [SPR-10392] #15025
• Fix errors in Spring MVC Test server-side code examples [SPR-10389] #15022
• Remove default value of LifecycleGroup.lifecycleBeans [SPR-10388] #15021
• Ant Pattern Matching throws IllegalStateException for multiple RequestMapping values [SPR-10386] #15019
• JdbcTemplate cannot set null parameter with Oracle driver [SPR-10385] #15018
• Form tag prepending context/servlet path breaks use for portlets [SPR-10382] #15015
• Type detection fails for child bean if parent bean has been resolved before [SPR-10374] #15007
• JavaDoc generation reports warnings [SPR-10373] #15006
• Unnecessary check in PatternsRequestCondition.getMatchingPattern [SPR-10504] #14998

4.0 M1 Release

⭐ New Features

• Allow access to applied property sources from PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer [SPR-10545] #15175
• Make DefaultResourceLoader.ClassPathContextResource protected [SPR-10544] #15174
• Consider @Import classes as lite @Configuration [SPR-10533] #15163
• Filter source @Configuration with @ComponentScan [SPR-10531] #15161
• Support *Aware ImportSelectors [SPR-10530] #15160
• Add AnnotationConfigApplicationContext constructor for custom DefaultListableBeanFactory [SPR-10529] #15159
• Make SpringFactoriesLoader.loadFactoryNames method public [SPR-10528] #15158
• Cannot inject ServletContext into MockMultipartHttpServletRequest [SPR-10098] #14731
• Support for JTA 1.2 transaction annotation [SPR-9139] #13778
• Update EhCacheFactoryBean to support current releases (2.4.x) [SPR-8258] #12906
• Support Bean Validation 1.1 (JSR-349) [SPR-8199] #12848
• Support JMS 2.0 (JSR-343) [SPR-8197] #12846
• Support Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR-236) [SPR-8195] #12844
• Support JPA 2.1 (JSR-338) [SPR-8194] #12843

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Use of same @Configuration class across multiple ApplicationContexts is not threadsafe [SPR-10936] #15564
• Creating ApplicationContexts from multiple threads causes ConcurrentModificationException [SPR-10543] #15173
• Cannot configure validationMessageSource when using Hibernate 5 as validation implementation [SPR-10466] #15099
• Fix missing font for JasperReports tests on Linux [SPR-10438] #15071
• Concurrent creation of the same Configuration class in different contexts is not thread-safe [SPR-10307] #14941
• IllegalArgumentException initializing an application compiled with Java 8 [SPR-10292] #14926

3.2.2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Clarify DefaultLobHandler's applicability to Oracle 10g/11g [SPR-10339] #14973
• Introduce a pre-resolved target type in RootBeanDefinition [SPR-10335] #14969
• The JARs spring-test-3.2.1 and spring-webmvc-3.2.1 contain two MANIFEST.MF [SPR-10324] #14958
• DefaultJdoDialect does not support JDO 2.2 isolation levels [SPR-10323] #14957
• Replace examples using deprecated SimpleJdbcTemplate [SPR-10317] #14951
• Introduce JdbcTestUtils.deleteFromTableWhere method [SPR-10302] #14936
• Ability to set per-session entity interceptors removed from HibernateTransactionManager for Hibernate 4 [SPR-10301] #14935
• Share locale independent properties among several ResourceBundleMessageSources [SPR-10291] #14925
• In AnnotationSessionFactoryBean, be able to specify annotatedPackages and packagesToScan in one property [SPR-10288] #14922
• Log4jWebConfigurer only uses System properties/environment [SPR-10284] #14918
• StandaloneMockMvcBuilder interface is inconsistent [SPR-10279] #14913
• MockMvcBuilders' use of generics doesn't allow for chaining more than 2 calls [SPR-10277] #14911
• Assertion message unclear when expected and actual have same string representation [SPR-10275] #14909
• Resolve SQL errorCode from underlying SQLException [SPR-10260] #14893
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate and JdbcTemplate: consider deprecating queryFor* methods [SPR-10257] #14890
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate: add methods to simplify usage when no parameter is needed [SPR-10256] #14889
• No way to ask RealLiteral for original string (to parse into BigDecimal) [SPR-10248] #14881
• Cannot create relative URIs with UriComponents [SPR-10231] #14864
• DefaultMessageListenerContainer should expose an API to determine whether the consumer successfully connected to a topic/queue [SPR-10230] #14863
• Limit auto grow collection size when using SpEL [SPR-10229] #14862
• org.springframework.http.MediaType.parseMediaType should throw a better exception [SPR-10226] #14859
• Update documentation examples for scheduling to use SimpleTriggerFactoryBean instead of SimpleTriggerBean [SPR-10209] #14842
• Cleanup whitespace in *.aj and use AspectJ Annotations to prevent NoSuchMethodErrors [SPR-10208] #14841
• @RequestParam default value not set in certain cases [SPR-10180] #14813
• o.s.web.util.JavaScriptUtils.javaScriptEscape insufficiently escapes some characters [SPR-9983] #14617
• Support WebApplicationContext hierarchies in the TestContext Framework [SPR-9863] #14496
• Transparent authentication fails when POSTing to Kerberos web service using the Simple HTTP Client [SPR-9617] #14251
• Reference Documentation needs a chapter on using Gemfire as a CacheManager [SPR-9468] #14103
• SPEL: Error message is useless at helping developer resolve problem actual problem, EL1027E:(pos 4): Indexing into type ... [SPR-8876] #13517
• @Cachable condition should allow referencing return value [SPR-8871] #13512
• Hibernate Annotation scanner missing package-info.java [SPR-8589] #13233
• Update for Spring OXM Reference, including changes introduced in CastorMarshaller [SPR-8509] #13155
• @PreDestroy and @PostConstruct should be mentioned more prominently in container callback section [SPR-8493] #13139
• CastorMarshaller - marshaller and unmarshaller properties. [SPR-8470] #13116
• @Scheduled's int attributes do not allow for placeholder values [SPR-8067] #12722
• AnnotationSessionFactoryBean packagesToScan does not scan for annotations in package's package-info.java file [SPR-7748] #12404
• Make MappingJacksonJsonView fields protected to make extending it easier [SPR-7619] #12275
• Provide support for context hierarchies in the TestContext Framework [SPR-5613] #10284
• Performance improvement on AbstractCachingViewResolver [SPR-3145] #7831

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Configuration class implementing Provider interface throws StackOverflowError after upgrading to Java 7 [SPR-11830] #16449
• Thread-safety issue in RequestMappingHandlerAdapter causes NPE [SPR-10365] #14997
• UriComponentsBuilder.fromUriString(…) throws exception for empty fragment [SPR-10363] #14995
• SpringCompleteAutoloadTilesContainerFactory disables EL expressions [SPR-10361] #14993
• Scope of model attributes when including JSP [SPR-10360] #14992
• mvc:resources location attribute doesn't guarantee order [SPR-10355] #14987
• SpringValidationAdapter cannot handle disabled default constraint violation [SPR-10345] #14979
• Change in FrameworkServlet makes it impossible to use an alternative WebRequest instance for request processing [SPR-10342] #14976
• doOptions method of FrameworkServlet uses servlet 3.0 only method [SPR-10341] #14975
• MockServletContext always returns application/octet-stream for unknown filetypes or ContentNegotiationManager is not correct [SPR-10334] #14968
• StringToEnumConverterFactory fails to convert enums using classes from values [SPR-10329] #14963
• NPE while parsing an invalid indexer expression [SPR-10328] #14962
• By-type matching caches in DefaultListableBeanFactory should be cleared on registerSingleton [SPR-10326] #14960
• Broken UriComponents.equals() method [SPR-10313] #14947
• LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy causes exception in WebSphere with an Oracle database [SPR-10312] #14946
• Reference documentation declares inner beans being prototypes, which is wrong [SPR-10311] #14945
• AspectJ advisor always positioned behind an "old school" advisor [SPR-10309] #14943
• Invalid format media-type in Content-Type request header results in IllegalArgumentException when no handler matched [SPR-10308] #14942
• ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType [SPR-10304] #14938
• java.lang.IllegalStateException: getOutputStream() has already been called for this response [SPR-10293] #14927
• MockMvcRequestBuilders.fileUpload() cannot merge if defaultRequest is set [SPR-10280] #14914
• @Async executor ignored if decla...

3.2.1 Release

⭐ New Features

• distinguish "none found" from "several found" in NoSuchBeanDefinitionException [SPR-10194] #14827
• RequestMappingInfoHandlerMapping.handleNoMatch returns null instead of throwing an exception [SPR-10193] #14826
• Provide a means to ignore the character set in ContentResultMatchers.contentType(MediaType) [SPR-10165] #14798
• EntityManagerFactoryUtils.findEntityManagerFactory() does not search parent contexts if persistence unit name is unspecified [SPR-10160] #14793
• AnnotationAwareOrderComparator does not work on Class objects [SPR-10152] #14785
• Improve documentation regarding which @MVC annotations are required on interfaces when proxying [SPR-10132] #14765
• Add support for X-Forwarded-Host in ServletUriComponentsBuilder [SPR-10110] #14743
• Support SpEL in @initial-delay for task:scheduled [SPR-10102] #14735
• ContentNegotiationManagerFactoryBean does not provide default value for "parameterName" as stated in doc [SPR-10101] #14734
• Implement support of Jackson2 for MappingJacksonMessageConverter [SPR-10099] #14732
• Support configurable charset for ResourcePropertySource [SPR-10096] #14729
• Support OPTIONS method in the MVC Test framework [SPR-10093] #14726
• Detect split packages at build time [SPR-9990] #14624
• Use parameter names during MBeanInfo assembly [SPR-9985] #14619
• Allow customization of request mappings [SPR-9935] #14568
• ResourcePropertySource cannot load JDK 5 properties xml [SPR-9896] #14529
• Allow TypeDescriptor array construction [SPR-9792] #14425
• Infer "shutdown()" as destroy method for convenient EHCache setup using @Bean [SPR-9713] #14347
• AnnotationAwareOrderComparator.sort has very misleading syntax [SPR-9625] #14259
• WebApplicationInitializer with AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext parent gets reset to null by ContextLoaderListener [SPR-9591] #14225
• Relax jms:listener-container xsd:int attributes to xsd:string in order to allow for SpEL expressions [SPR-9553] #14187
• Improve documentation for validation and data binding [SPR-9437] #14073
• Improve support for registering Validator implementations in Spring MVC [SPR-9436] #14072
• Consistency between scheduling/concurrent factory beans, resulting in inheritance improvement [SPR-9435] #14071
• exposeAccessContext should also be available for JndiRmiClientInterceptor [SPR-9428] #14063
• Update reference documentation on handling 401 response in the RestTemplate [SPR-9367] #14004
• WebContentInterceptor.preHandle(request, response, handler), handler of type HandlerMethod not controller instance [SPR-9248] #13886
• Map "no default value for field" MySQL error code to DataIntegrityViolationException [SPR-9237] #13875
• SpringContextResourceAdapter does not fulfill whole JCA 1.5 contract [SPR-9162] #13800
• Request to switch off heading & trailing whitespaces trim of path segments in AntPathMatcher [SPR-8687] #13329
• Form tag should prepend the contextPath and servletPath if not present [SPR-8684] #13326
• EhCacheCacheManager throws assertion error for ehcache configuration with only default cache configured [SPR-7955] #12610
• @Primary and primary attribute of element are not considered for calls to getBean(Class) [SPR-7854] #12511
• BufferedImageHttpMessageConverter not using defaultContentType [SPR-7763] #12419
• Make ResponseStatusExceptionResolver handling of @ResponseStatus.reason internationalizable [SPR-6044] #10713
• ThreadPoolExecutor waitForTasksToCompleteOnShutdown doesn't work as expected [SPR-5387] #10060

🪲 Bug Fixes

• MBeanExporter/MBeanRegistrationSupport leaks ObjectNames in registeredBeans [SPR-10957] #15585
• HttpEntityMethodProcessor does not support HttpEntity/ResponseEntity subclasses [SPR-10207] #14840
• Support Date to String in JodaTimeConverters [SPR-10198] #14831
• ClassCastException while using completeAutoload in Tiles 3 [SPR-10195] #14828
• MockHttpServletRequest must not throw an exception on getParameter(null) [SPR-10192] #14825
• FormHttpMessageConverter#writePart NPE on 'partBody.getClass()' [SPR-10187] #14820
• UriComponents break UriTemplate serialization [SPR-10186] #14819
• NoSuchMethodError for Aspects [SPR-10178] #14811
• Attribute mode removed from annotation-driven definition in spring-task.xsd [SPR-10177] #14810
• AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor returns allSupportedMediaTypes with HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException [SPR-10175] #14808
• RequestMapping fileExtension filling interferes with registration of mapping methods [SPR-10173] #14806
• Consider bridge methods in SpEL properties [SPR-10162] #14795
• spring-aspects is compiled with JDK 1.7 compatibility [SPR-10161] #14794
• Building 3.2.x branch with Java 7 fails - api depends on asmRepackJar [SPR-10151] #14784
• Improve exceptions for multi-operand expressions [SPR-10146] #14779
• NPE in PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor when instantiate a @Configurable Bean [SPR-10144] #14777
• MatrixVariable values are not decoded [SPR-10140] #14773
• error with tomcat 6 and spring 3.2 [SPR-10139] #14772
• HttpServletBean requires overly narrow Environment type [SPR-10138] #14771
• MessageSourceResourceBundle.containsKey throws NullPointerException [SPR-10136] #14769
• SpEL support for static finals on interfaces [SPR-10125] #14758
• Fix SpEL JavaBean compliance for setters [SPR-10122] #14755
• ContentNegotiatingViewResolver - Upgrade from 3.1 to 3.2 causes ClassCastException [SPR-10119] #14752
• Fix GenericConversionService search algorithm [SPR-10116] #14749
• Regression in static setter method support [SPR-10115] #14748
• Processing java.math.BigDecimal via Spring's ExtendedBeanInfo fails sporadically [SPR-10111] #14744
• JMSTemplate.receive() and receiveSelected() don't use "receiveTimeout" property if in a transactio...

3.1.4 Release

⭐ New Features

• EhCacheCacheManager throws assertion error for ehcache configuration with only default cache configured [SPR-7955] #12610
• SpringContextResourceAdapter does not fulfill whole JCA 1.5 contract [SPR-9162] #13800
• exposeAccessContext should also be available for JndiRmiClientInterceptor [SPR-9428] #14063
• WebApplicationInitializer with AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext parent gets reset to null by ContextLoaderListener [SPR-9591] #14225
• ResourcePropertySource cannot load JDK 5 properties xml [SPR-9896] #14529
• Concurrent Consumers Not Allowed for Durable Subscription [SPR-10037] #14671
• Unnecessary reading of java.lang.Object input stream [SPR-10058] #14691
• Implement support of Jackson2 for MappingJacksonMessageConverter [SPR-10099] #14732
• EntityManagerFactoryUtils.findEntityManagerFactory() does not search parent contexts if persistence unit name is unspecified [SPR-10160] #14793
• RequestMappingInfoHandlerMapping.handleNoMatch returns null instead of throwing an exception [SPR-10193] #14826
• Remove xsd versions from reference samples [SPR-10010] #14644
• Use ExtendedBeanInfo on an as-needed basis only [SPR-9723] #14357
• Documentation update regarding aspectjrt and aspectjweaver jars usage [SPR-8896] #13537

🪲 Bug Fixes

• MemoryLeak in Cglib2AopProxy.ProxyCallbackFilter [SPR-8008] #12663
• CachedIntrospectionResults cannot be cleared for null class loaders [SPR-9189] #13827
• MimeMessageHelper does not handle attachment file name encoding [SPR-9258] #13896
• BridgeMethodResolver throws exception when trying to find bridged method if method is declired in interface or it is abstract [SPR-9330] #13968
• FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory's instance variable become enlarged whenever call create method. [SPR-9389] #14025
• LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer doesn't support bridged methods [SPR-9429] #14065
• MBeanExporter#destroy logs warnings about explicitly unregistered mbeans [SPR-9451] #14086
• SimpleDriverDataSource doesn't use the connectionProperties specified [SPR-9461] #14096
• Add migration instructions regarding component-scanning against "org" base package [SPR-9843] #14476
• MockHttpServletResponse.getHeaderNames is incompatible with Servlet 3.0 [SPR-9885] #14518
• ContextLoader incorrectly refreshes already refreshed context [SPR-9996] #14630
• SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor not closing ApplicationContext after EJB initialisation exception [SPR-10013] #14647
• AbstractCachingViewResolver - caching redirect views leads to memory leak [SPR-10065] #14698
• EclipseLink marks transaction RollbackOnly when applying timeout for "nonread" queries [SPR-10068] #14701
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate for "insert / select" clause, set NULL value causes JConnect 7 (Sybase) problem - java.io.IOException: JZ0SL: Unsupported SQL type 0. - Affects 3.1.3.RELEASE, works in 3.1.1.RELEASE [SPR-10084] #14717
• HierarchicalUriComponents.equals() incorrectly returns false when other object is not an instance of OpaqueUriComponents [SPR-10088] #14721
• SpEl bug while reading boolean fields [SPR-10091] #14724
• DMLC: JMS resources are never cleared under certain conditions [SPR-10092] #14725
• JMSTemplate.receive() and receiveSelected() don't use "receiveTimeout" property if in a transaction [SPR-10109] #14742
• Processing java.math.BigDecimal via Spring's ExtendedBeanInfo fails sporadically [SPR-10111] #14744
• SpEL support for static finals on interfaces [SPR-10125] #14758
• MessageSourceResourceBundle.containsKey throws NullPointerException [SPR-10136] #14769
• Consider bridge methods in SpEL properties [SPR-10162] #14795
• AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor returns allSupportedMediaTypes with HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException [SPR-10175] #14808
• Attribute mode removed from annotation-driven definition in spring-task.xsd [SPR-10177] #14810
• FormHttpMessageConverter#writePart NPE on 'partBody.getClass()' [SPR-10187] #14820
• MockHttpServletRequest must not throw an exception on getParameter(null) [SPR-10192] #14825
• HttpEntityMethodProcessor does not support HttpEntity/ResponseEntity subclasses [SPR-10207] #14840
• MBeanExporter/MBeanRegistrationSupport leaks ObjectNames in registeredBeans [SPR-10957] #15585
• Handling of BeanInfo broken [SPR-10040] #14674
• Deadlock in DefaultListableBeanFactory/DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry [SPR-10020] #14654
• ReflectivePropertyAccessor should not consider bridge methods [SPR-9994] #14628
• IntrospectionException: type mismatch between indexed and non-indexed methods [SPR-9943] #14576
• Prevent duplicate @Import processing and ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrar invocation [SPR-9925] #14558
• Ensure LineNumberReader is always closed in ResourceDatabasePopulator [SPR-9912] #14545
• ExtendedBeanInfo exception - java.beans.IntrospectionException [SPR-9702] #14336
• Deadlock between DefaultListableBeanFactory and DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry, perhaps due to lazily-instantiated aspect [SPR-7718] #12374

📔 Documentation

• Doc: Bad snippet for CompositeCacheManager [SPR-9064] #13703
• Error in doc on JCA CCI - ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter [SPR-9466] #14101
• Example shows deprecated ScheduledTimerTask [SPR-10050] #14683
• Community Download site mentioned in the docs doesn't work [SPR-10171] #14804
• Fix castor website [SPR-10189] #14822
• Backport "Documentation update regarding aspectjrt and aspectjweaver jars usage" [SPR-10009] #14643

3.2 GA Release

⭐ New Features

• Support external Javadoc links [SPR-10078] #14711
• Support comments within SQL statements in ResourceDatabasePopulator [SPR-10075] #14708
• Make DeferredResult extensible [SPR-10059] #14692
• Unnecessary reading of java.lang.Object input stream [SPR-10058] #14691
• FormHttpMessageConverter should have a MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter in its partConverters [SPR-10055] #14688
• Make it easier to integrate Tiles 3 with Spring MVC [SPR-10054] #14687
• Add hook for before concurrent handling [SPR-10052] #14685
• Rename MvcAsyncTask to WebAsyncTask [SPR-10051] #14684
• Concurrent Consumers Not Allowed for Durable Subscription [SPR-10037] #14671
• SpEL performance [SPR-10035] #14669
• Support comments within SQL statements in JdbcTestUtils [SPR-9982] #14616
• Possibility to disable WebApplicationInitializer [SPR-9977] #14611
• Eclipse .classpath exports optional and provided dependencies [SPR-9656] #14290
• Setting default charset in StringHttpMessageConverter [SPR-7904] #12559

🪲 Bug Fixes

• DMLC: JMS resources are never cleared under certain conditions [SPR-10092] #14725
• SpEl bug while reading boolean fields [SPR-10091] #14724
• HierarchicalUriComponents.equals() incorrectly returns false when other object is not an instance of OpaqueUriComponents [SPR-10088] #14721
• Replace SLF4J with ACL in TilesConfigurer for Tiles 3 [SPR-10077] #14710
• POM of spring-aspects should have a dependency on aspectjweaver and not aspectjrt [SPR-10072] #14705
• Tests in spring-test-mvc fail to execute in Eclipse [SPR-10070] #14703
• EclipseLink marks transaction RollbackOnly when applying timeout for "nonread" queries [SPR-10068] #14701
• AbstractCachingViewResolver - caching redirect views leads to memory leak [SPR-10065] #14698
• 404 error when working with .htm servlet-mapping [SPR-10061] #14694
• StandaloneMockMvcBuilder's setHandlerExceptionResolvers does not return the builder [SPR-10053] #14686
• MVC test support breaks the contract of ServletRequestAttributes.getRequest() [SPR-10025] #14659
• AbstractBeanFactory#markBeanAsCreated performance issue due to lock contention [SPR-9780] #14414
• AbstractAutoProxyCreator and RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor synchronized HashSet locking bottleneck [SPR-9711] #14345
• MemoryLeak in Cglib2AopProxy.ProxyCallbackFilter [SPR-8008] #12663

📔 Documentation

• Example shows deprecated ScheduledTimerTask [SPR-10050] #14683
• Document new testing features in the "New in Spring 3.2" section of the reference manual [SPR-9941] #14574
• Document WebApplicationContext support in the TestContext Framework [SPR-9864] #14497
• Document which functionality gets implicitly activated by <context:component-scan /> [SPR-9808] #14441

3.2 RC2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Remove reflection usage in orm.hibernate4.* [SPR-10039] #14673
• Introduce AnnotationAwareOrderComparator#INSTANCE constant [SPR-10038] #14672
• Update reference docs to a more modern CSS style [SPR-10036] #14670
• Support bean disposal on ApplicationContext shutdown for Closeable beans [SPR-10034] #14668
• Remove duplicate imageobject items from reference xml [SPR-10033] #14667
• Migrate to docbook 5 [SPR-10032] #14666
• Simplify CachedIntrospectionResults caching arrangements [SPR-10028] #14662
• Drop Appendix E. spring-beans-2.0.dtd [SPR-10011] #14645
• Restore custom reference manual titlepage [SPR-10008] #14642
• Changing the default behaviour of DeferredResult when the timeout is triggered [SPR-10002] #14636
• @Cacheable should participate in transactions [SPR-9966] #14600
• Implement java.io.Closeable where appropriate [SPR-9962] #14596
• Provide option in MockRestServiceServer where an instance of MockMvc is used to obtain the response [SPR-9917] #14550
• Support SpEL in mvc:mapping tags [SPR-9848] #14481
• Add documentation for cache and jdbc namespaces [SPR-9824] #14457
• Non-singleton beans performance issue [SPR-9819] #14452
• container-type and other NMTOKEN attributes declared in spring-jms-3.1.xsd - consider using string pattern to allow for property placeholders [SPR-9597] #14231
• Support Aware interfaces for ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrar [SPR-9568] #14202
• Add support for in addition to for mvc:message-converters [SPR-9469] #14104
• spring-expression: null values in (boolean) expressions won't be converted [SPR-9445] #14064
• mvc:resources/ location param shoud support SpEL [SPR-9291] #13929
• Tiles-3 support [SPR-8825] #13467
• AsyncAnnotationBeanPostProcessor should cache AopUtils.canApply results, it's unusable in projects with a huge number of prototype beans otherwise [SPR-8065] #12720
• Cache result of AopUtils.canApply [SPR-7328] #11987

🪲 Bug Fixes

• WebMvcConfigurationSupport is not properly initializing ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver [SPR-9997] #14631
• LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider closes connection instead of releasing it [SPR-9978] #14612
• HttpMessageConverter no longer works for @ResponseBody parameters with an extended generic.at the type [SPR-9964] #14598
• Honor timeZone property in DateTimeFormatterFactory [SPR-9953] #14586
• The behavior of returning null for Callable or DeferredResult return values is currently undefined [SPR-9951] #14584
• Error in "13.4.3 Batch operations with multiple batches" documentation [SPR-9937] #14570
• inherited @Lazy annotation not picked up for scanned @Components [SPR-9589] #14223
• @DependsOn inheritence appears not to function as defined [SPR-9476] #14111
• org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireBean() causes ClassLoader leak [SPR-8956] #13596
• Performance bottleneck and potential thread deadlock in DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry [SPR-8471] #13117

📔 Documentation

• Update whats new in 3.2 [SPR-10015] #14649
• Document global date time format configuration [SPR-9952] #14585
• Document @Enable* annotations [SPR-9920] #14553

3.2 RC1 Release

⭐ New Features

• SQL Server error code 209 should map to BadSqlGrammarException [SPR-9946] #14579
• Extend conditional conversion support [SPR-9928] #14561
• Provide a way to handle timeouts for Servlet 3 async requests [SPR-9914] #14547
• Allow setting WSDL document as a Resource on LocalJaxWsServiceFactory [SPR-9909] #14542
• Allow usage of injection annotations (@Autowired, @Value) as meta-annotations [SPR-9890] #14523
• Allow configurable await time in TestCallableInterceptor in test mvc [SPR-9875] #14508
• Allow SpEL reserved words in type package names [SPR-9862] #14495
• Add first class support for testing Spring MVC applications [SPR-9859] #14492
• ContentNegotiatingViewResolver does not support wildcards in contentType [SPR-9807] #14440
• Develop ConcurrentReferenceHashMap [SPR-9796] #14429
• List @PathVariable not converted correctly in @Controller [SPR-9765] #14399
• Support for increment (++) operator in SpEL [SPR-9751] #14385
• TypeDescriptor getAnnotation method should use generics [SPR-9744] #14378
• Implement support of Jackson2 for JacksonObjectMapperBeanFactory [SPR-9739] #14373
• Implement HttpMessageConverter that can use a ConversionService to convert String content to some Object type [SPR-9738] #14372
• Make locales in MockHttpServletRequest configurable [SPR-9724] #14358
• Support flexible formatting for resolved message codes [SPR-9707] #14341
• Support conversion from Enum Interface [SPR-9692] #14326
• Provide runtime access to Spring container and bean graph metadata [SPR-9662] #14296
• MediaType's include method does not check for generalization when using a format extension/suffix [SPR-9635] #14269
• Allow PropertyResolver implementations to ignore unresolvable ${placeholders} [SPR-9569] #14203
• Bypass conversion when possible [SPR-9566] #14200
• Upgrade commons-httpclient from version 4.1 to version 4.2 [SPR-9475] #14110
• Add more details in ResourceAccessException message thrown by doExecute method of RestTemplate [SPR-9325] #13963
• Cache and late resolve annotations on bean properties to improve performance [SPR-9166] #13804
• Make the ConfigurableWebBindingInitializer easy to customize in WebMvcConfigurationSupport [SPR-8984] #13624
• Introduce @EnableMBeanExport equivalent to context:mbean-export [SPR-8943] #13583
• Use concurrent cache to improve performance of GenericTypeResolver [SPR-8701] #13343
• Allow Customization of Object Name Attributes [SPR-8244] #12892
• MockHttpRequest to support ClientRequestInterceptor testing [SPR-7995] #12650
• Add first class support for client-side REST tests [SPR-7951] #12606
• MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter default media type should include *+json [SPR-7905] #12560
• Support for custom global Joda DateTimeFormatters [SPR-7121] #11781
• Apache HttpClient 4.1 pooled coonection manager support in Spring Web [SPR-6940] #11605
• Support DateTimeFormat annotation without Joda [SPR-6508] #11174
• Support loading WebApplicationContexts with the TestContext Framework [SPR-5243] #9917
• Throw AopInvocationException on advice returning null for primitive type [SPR-4675] #9352
• Provide support for session/request scoped beans for integration testing [SPR-4588] #9265

🪲 Bug Fixes

• AbstractEnvironment addActiveProfile ignores profiles activated with properties [SPR-9944] #14577
• HttpMessageNotReadableException when @RequestBody(required=false) [SPR-9942] #14575
• Spring test module shouldn't pull in hamcrest-all as hard dependency [SPR-9940] #14573
• Avoid NullPointerException in ObjectToObjectConverter [SPR-9933] #14566
• OncePerRequestFilter executes again on errors [SPR-9895] #14528
• PathExtensionContentNegotiationStrategy depends on Servlet 3 specific method [SPR-9826] #14459
• RequestMethodsRequestCondition fails on unsupported method types [SPR-9815] #14448
• Delete CopyOfRequestMappingHandlerMapping [SPR-9814] #14447
• JibxMarshaller deletes comments when Result is an XMLEventWriter [SPR-9768] #14402
• Initialize ServletContext and ServletConfig property sources eagerly in FrameworkServlet [SPR-9610] #14244
• Resolve Collection element types during conversion [SPR-9257] #13895
• @Entity objects are not enhanced by the load time weaver in certain situations [SPR-8523] #13167

3.1.3 Release

⭐ New Features

• AbstractRoutingDataSource does not allow to unwrap the underlying datasource [SPR-9856] #14489
• Add JDBC exception translation support for Oracle error code ORA-06550 [SPR-9853] #14486
• allow replaced-method 'arg-type' matches against element body as well as 'match' attribute [SPR-9812] #14445
• Support opaque URIs in UriComponentsBuilder [SPR-9798] #14431
• Spring 3.1 CookieGenerator does not support HttpOnly property added in servlet 3.0 [SPR-9794] #14427
• Allow Jaxb2Marshaller to work with EclipseLink MOXy when using external binding definitions [SPR-9757] #14391
• Avoid per-request Pattern.compile() calls. [SPR-9749] #14383
• Share MethodParameter cache between HandlerMethods [SPR-9748] #14382
• Get rid of per-instance logger creation [SPR-9747] #14381
• Allow parsing of media types with single-quotes [SPR-9734] #14368
• Sybase lock wait timeout error code missing [SPR-9681] #14315
• Poor Performance with lots of Prototype Scoped Beans [SPR-9670] #14304
• HttpHeaders.getAccept() does not return all accept headers for Iplanet WebServer 7 [SPR-9655] #14289
• Add SpEL support for float literals [SPR-9486] #14121
• UriComponentsBuilder.query(String) does not always match properly the query [SPR-9474] #14109
• Deprecate SimpleJdbcTestUtils in favor of JdbcTestUtils [SPR-9235] #13873
• Value-oriented return method handling broken in 3.1 [SPR-9218] #13856
• @ResponseBody does not work with @ExceptionHandler when reason is set in @ResponseStatus [SPR-9159] #13797
• Creating of Spring beans takes a long time when the application is deployed through webstart / jnlp with Java 6 and above [SPR-9117] #13755
• 3.1.x reference docs mentions RequestBodyNotValidException but should be MethodArgumentNotValidException [SPR-9111] #13749
• TypeConverterDelegate contains commented out code [SPR-8463] #13109
• Make ResourceBundleMessageSource more flexible (catching up with Java 6's java.util.ResourceBundle) [SPR-7392] #12050

🪲 Bug Fixes

• When SimpleMessageListenerContainer could not connect, it throws a NullPointerException in shutdown() [SPR-9930] #14563
• Close 'beans' tag in MVC namespace documentation [SPR-9898] #14531
• Inconsistent behavior for LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean for using/not using persistence.xml, with Hibernate4 [SPR-9883] #14516
• DispatcherPortlet should forward to view for ResourceRequest [SPR-9876] #14509
• Portlet mapping predicate compareTo is not transitive [SPR-9874] #14507
• OpDivide wrongly wraps result of division in TypedValue [SPR-9869] #14502
• NullPointerException in AbstractMessageConvertorMethodProcessor [SPR-9868] #14501
• Unscalable code in Jaxb2Marshaller [SPR-9867] #14500
• TypeConverterDelegate falls back to deprecated Date constructor when first converter failed [SPR-9865] #14498
• LoadTimeWeaving not working properly in Websphere [SPR-9857] #14490
• ServletConfigAware-related exception is not thrown as expected [SPR-9855] #14488
• POM dependency issue: com.caucho#com.springsource.com.caucho;3.2.1 is no longer available [SPR-9854] #14487
• @Resource injection of singleton in prototype using AnnotationConfigApplicationContext is not thread-safe [SPR-9852] #14485
• Prevent memory leaks with @Configuration beans [SPR-9851] #14484
• Hibernate 4 class loading issue on JBoss 7 when hibernate & spring classes loaded by different classloaders [SPR-9846] #14479
• Automatically created java.inject.Provider cannot be injected into session scoped beans [SPR-9845] #14478
• Upgrade spring mvc app to 3.1.2 causes content-type to be returned as 'application/*+xml' [SPR-9841] #14474
• HttpComponentsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor does not explicitly release connection [SPR-9833] #14466
• Erroneous "0" returned where empty string expected in call through the RestTemplate [SPR-9832] #14465
• Race Condition in ReschedulingRunnable [SPR-9821] #14454
• Fix split package introduced by @EnableSpringConfigured [SPR-9811] #14444
• Autowired properties can remain unset during concurrent instantiation of prototype-beans [SPR-9806] #14439
• Performance degradation for TransactionInterceptor [SPR-9802] #14435
• Spring fails to locate jar files defined with jar-file tag in persistence.xml [SPR-9797] #14430
• RestTemplate fails to correctly parse some HTTP URI parameters [SPR-9791] #14424
• ResourceDatabasePopulator incredibly slow on JDK 1.7.0_06 or newer [SPR-9781] #14415
• DelegatingDataSource incorrectly implements java.sql.Wrapper [SPR-9770] #14404
• Remove default profile during environment merge [SPR-9761] #14395
• Register environment in all bean factories in a hierarchy [SPR-9756] #14390
• LinkedCaseInsensitiveMap duplicate element with put() [SPR-9754] #14388
• Default PersistenceUnit is configured with wrong name, resulting in duplicates & causes RTE. [SPR-9741] #14375
• Flashmap matching logic fails when target params are encoded. [SPR-9657] #14291
• BeanFactoryAnnotationUtils should throw BeansException [SPR-9652] #14286
• Injection of Provider fails for prototype-scoped beans [SPR-9630] #14264
• When testing controller mappings using AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter NPE is thrown [SPR-9629] #14263
• Regression: scoped beans being cached too aggressively [SPR-9627] #14261
• org.springframework.core.Constants fail with NPE dispite method documentations say that it accepts null values [SPR-9608] #14242
• MessageSourceSupport and StaticMessageSource uses invalid caches for MessageFormat [SPR-9607] #14241
• Wrong compareTo() implementation in Portlet mapping predicates [SPR-9605] #14239
• RequestMappingInfoHandlerMapping.handleNoMatch throws HttpRequestMethodNotSupportedException incorrectly [SPR-9603] #14237
• JdbcTestUtils should not interpret comments as a separate statement [SPR-9593] [#14227](https://github.c...