v6.1.0-M3

⭐ New Features

• Update warning log messages for SimpleAsyncTaskManager to take into account virtual thread mode #30902
• Extract forwarded header handling out of UriComponentsBuilder #30886
• Reduce logging for ResourceNotFoundException #30884
• Revisit public API for MBeanExporter #30874
• Early support for JDK 22 #30845
• DataAccessUtils result accessors with Optional return value #27735
• Add convert(Object, TypeDescriptor) method to ConversionService #25394
• Revisit DataAccessException translation API #24634

🐞 Bug Fixes

• @CachePut evaluates key before cache condition #22769
• Topic messages are not sent when using transacted JmsTemplate in 'TransactionSynchronization.afterCommit' phase [SPR-16270] #20817

📔 Documentation

• Update javadoc to take virtual threads into account #30905

❤️ Contributors

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

@KaidosGH, @izeye, and @lgxbslgx

v6.1.0-M2

⭐ New Features

• Refine the log message printed after restoration with CRaC #30876
• Add HttpExchangeAdapter for RestClient #30869
• Use latest version of sockjs-client in AbstractSockJsService #30848
• ClientHttpRequestFactory based on Reactor Netty HttpClient #30835
• Pause/resume capability for ThreadPoolTaskExecutor and ThreadPoolTaskScheduler #30831
• Rearrange HttpHeader adapters #30823
• Support use of MockRestServiceServer with RestClient #30821
• Allow built ServerResponse to throw exception #30818
• Method validation error handling by controller method parameter type #30813
• Add RestClient Kotlin extensions #30807
• Detect interface parameter annotations also from spring-messaging HandlerMethod #30801
• Allows JdkClientHttpRequest.DISALLOWED_HEADERS to be customized. #30788
• Change restore logging to info level #30775
• Add MultipartFileArgumentResolver for HTTP interface client #30728
• Align KeyValues of Scheduled-annotated observability with OpenTelemetry conventions #30721
• Detect invalid transaction configuration for transactional event listeners #30679
• Blocking execution for WebFlux controller methods #30678
• Add a CoExchangeFilterFunction for WebClient similar to CoWebFilter #30650
• Built-in Web Support for Method Bean Validation #30645
• Spring MVC and WebFlux handling of method validation errors #30644
• HttpClient based ClientHttpRequestFactory #30478
• HTTP interface client infrastructure and adapter for RestTemplate #30117
• Instrument Scheduled-annotated methods for observability #29883
• Add AOT support for Kotlin constructors with optional parameters #29820
• Introduce RestClient #29552
• Space in integer request parameter neither triggers the default value nor generates a 400 #29550
• Improve 404 error handling in Spring MVC #29491
• Issue with equals(?)/hashCode() for ResolvableType.forRawClass(?) #28608
• Introduce ModuleResource for resources loaded from a given Module #28507
• ArrayToCollectionConverter should default to List if target type is Collection #28048
• ResolvableType should allow to determine matching type argument for generic return type #27748
• Parallel graceful shutdown for ThreadPoolTaskExecutor and ThreadPoolTaskScheduler #27090
• Support target instantiation and binding via constructor in DataBinder #26721
• Support for MultiValueMap elements in web data binding #26297
• Add binding support to functional servlet and reactive stack #25943
• @Scheduled methods in beans created by FactoryBeans are not cancelled #24629
• ExecutorConfigurationSupport API refinement to control internal executor shutdown #24497
• DataBinder using constructor parameter should use path variables #22748
• Add JDBC SqlValue classes for arrays #1850
• Support Kotlin parameter default values in HTTP handler methods #21139
• Multiple TaskSchedulers to be supported with @Scheduled [SPR-16271] #20818
• Let the DataBinder construct nested objects #20806
• Add support to any Iterable types on PropertyAccessor #907

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor fails without Reactive Streams on the classpath #30707
• @SessionAttributes handler invoked too early if controller method execution is deferred #30337
• Fix AbstractMessageConverter not delegating to ContentTypeResolver when message header is null #29768
• JSON deserialization for Kotlin collections on inherited classes #24033

📔 Documentation

• Update documentation on customizing validation errors with MessageSource #30653
• Update documentation for method validation improvements in spring-context, Spring MVC, and WebFlux #30643

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Context Propagation 1.1.0-M3 #30882
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.0 #30719
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.7.2 #30833
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.0-M1 #30872
• Upgrade to Project CRaC 1.3.0 #30812
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.0-M1 #30856

❤️ Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @erichaagdev, @izeye, @kooixh, @ljtfreitas, @marschall, @mdeinum, @spencergibb, and @yoshikawaa

v6.0.11

⭐ New Features

• Reduce WARN level log output during test AOT processing #30867
• Avoid need for reflection hints for MBeanExporter in native image #30846
• Tolerate AnnotationUtils.isCandidateClass call with null as annotation type #30842
• Simplify DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.isDependent() #30839
• Add missing @Nullable annotations in ContentDisposition.Builder #30820
• Provide explicit support for collections, maps, and arrays in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30810
• Extend list of supported types in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30805
• Align ConcurrentMapCacheManager locking behavior with CaffeineCacheManager #30780
• Improve logging for missing dependencies in MicrometerObservationRegistryTestExecutionListener #30747
• Optimize KotlinReflectionParameterNameDiscoverer #30725
• Change InvocableHandlerMethod#invokeSuspendingFunction return type to Object #30716
• ResolvableType.hasUnresolvableGenerics() should cache its result #30713
• Deprecate RootBeanDefinition(ResolvableType) constructor #30704
• Reinstate dependency injection support for legacy JSR-250 @javax.annotation.Resource annotation #30695
• Translate SQL Exception with State S0001 and Vendor Code 2628 to a Spring Exception in MSSQL 2019 #30681
• Ensure Spring LogFactory contains all public methods from Apache LogFactory #30668
• Infer hints required for aspects #28711
• Improve diagnostics for CGLIB ClassLoader issues with shared classes in parent ClassLoader #25940
• JdbcTemplate does not call handleWarnings in case of exception #23106
• Avoid illegal reflective access in ContextOverridingClassLoader.isEligibleForOverriding #22791

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Revert changes to toString() in FieldError #30799
• For a prototype bean, if first-time rejected value is null, subsequent value will wrongly be null always #30794
• Fix log level on error with @TransactionalEventListener #30776
• ClassCastException in AbstractBeanDefinition.getBeanClassName() when getting bean multithreaded #30773
• SerializableTypeWrapper does not consistently catch InvocationTargetException #30764
• NPE in MvcUriComponentsBuilder with no-arg target method on interface #30756
• ArithmeticException: long overflow on @Scheduled(fixedDelay = Long.MAX_VALUE) #30754
• Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder breaks when modules customizer follows modulesToInstall #30751
• NullPointerException in reactive TransactionalOperatorImpl #30729
• MicrometerObservationRegistryTestExecutionListener uses wrong ClassLoader to detect dependencies #30726
• Support [package-]private init/destroy methods in AOT mode #30724
• Package-private init/destroy methods are not always invoked #30718
• Generic RedisKeyExpiredEvent not delivered to @EventListener anymore in 6.0.9 #30712
• Explicit BeanDefinition#targetType is not honoured in AOT scenarios #30689
• Spring ORM SpringBeanContainer when trying to create a bean fails with not found bean definition, and fallbacks to default hibernate bean creation #30683
• PathResourceResolver#resolve*Internal is missing @Nullable declarations #30601
• Code generation should only apply shortcut if the target method is not ambiguous #29278

📔 Documentation

• Update STOMP documentation with the new guidelines #30857
• Clarify ReactiveTransactionManager exception declarations #30817
• Doc: JdbcTransactionManager vs DataSourceTransactionManager #30802
• Fix typo in Javadoc for BeanDefinitionDsl.kt #30798
• Remove @Aspect for classes containing only @Pointcut declarations in reference documentation #30790
• NestedRuntimeException javadoc not updated after implementation change #30748
• AbstractMessageListenerContainer documentation and code disagree regarding log level #30730
• Fix link text from "null" to "Component Classes" in Testing chapter #30714
• Document that RowCallbackHandler can be used with NamedParameterJdbcTemplate #30705
• Javadoc HTML tables are no longer rendered properly since upgrade to Java 17 #30701
• Fix typo in UriUtils Javadoc #30598
• Fix example in Javadoc for MultipartBodyBuilder #30593
• Elaborate on ShallowEtagHeaderFilter limitations #30517
• Document how to configure a custom LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean to work with native #30498
• Document that @Sql requires spring-jdbc and spring-tx on the classpath #30280
• Document limitations of Servlet Filter observations #29398
• Warn against direct usage of Servlet API in WebFlux applications #28872
• ResultSet holdability into the View layer broken by Hibernate 5 #26557

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to micrometer-bom 1.10.9 and context-propagation 1.0.4 #30860
• Upgrade to me.champeau.jmh 0.7.1 #30690
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.9 #30871

❤️ Contributors

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

@KSH-code, @antongub, @bnbakp0582, @cwatzl, @heoYH, @izeye, @kilink, @maartenc, @quaff, @rwinch, @valfirst, and @vbaidak

v5.3.29

⭐ New Features

• Avoid illegal reflective access in ContextOverridingClassLoader.isEligibleForOverriding #30868
• Improve diagnostics for CGLIB ClassLoader issues with shared classes in parent ClassLoader #30866
• JdbcTemplate does not call handleWarnings in case of exception #30852
• Tolerate AnnotationUtils.isCandidateClass call with null as annotation type #30843
• Simplify DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.isDependent() #30841
• Provide explicit support for collections, maps, and arrays in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30811
• Extend list of supported types in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30806
• Align ConcurrentMapCacheManager locking behavior with CaffeineCacheManager #30781
• ResolvableType.hasUnresolvableGenerics() should cache its result #30715
• Ensure Spring LogFactory contains all public methods from Apache LogFactory #30711
• Translate SQL Exception with State S0001 and Vendor Code 2628 to a Spring Exception in MSSQL 2019 #30682

🐞 Bug Fixes

• For a prototype bean, if first-time rejected value is null, subsequent value will wrongly be null always #30809
• Revert changes to toString() in FieldError #30800
• Fix log level on error with @TransactionalEventListener #30784
• SerializableTypeWrapper does not consistently catch InvocationTargetException #30767
• NPE in MvcUriComponentsBuilder with no-arg target method on interface #30757
• Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder breaks when modules customizer follows modulesToInstall #30752
• Spring ORM SpringBeanContainer when trying to create a bean fails with not found bean definition, and fallbacks to default hibernate bean creation #30685

📔 Documentation

• ResultSet holdability into the View layer broken by Hibernate 5 #30863
• Clarify ReactiveTransactionManager exception declarations #30819
• Doc: JdbcTransactionManager vs DataSourceTransactionManager #30814

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.34 #30873

v5.2.25.RELEASE

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Reintroduce support for null SpEL expressions #30464
• Make maximum SpEL expression length configurable #30452

v6.1.0-M1

⭐ New Features

• Consistent simple value type check (including UUID treatment for data binding) #30664
• Release shared JMS Connection when message listener container is stopped #30612
• Property-driven onRefresh checkpoint during application context bootstrap #30606
• Support letters other than A-Z in identifiers in SpEL expressions #30580
• Remove System.out calls in PreComputeFieldFeature #30571
• Have the ErrorResponse.Builder take in a custom ProblemDetail instance #30568
• Allow setting the ProblemDetail.type via a MessageSource #30566
• ClientHttpRequestFactory based on Jetty HttpClient #30564
• Remove buffering in ClientHttpRequestFactory implementations #30557
• Support JAXBElement in Jaxb2XmlEncoder #30552
• Disable SpEL selector support in WebSocket messaging by default #30550
• Enforce JPA bootstrap failure for incomplete Hibernate Validator setup #30549
• Support parsing long dates in InstantFormatter #30546
• Port BeanPropertyRowMapper and DataClassRowMapper for r2dbc #30530
• Add non-null precondition checks in DefaultEntityResponseBuilder #30433
• Deprecate spring-context-indexer #30431
• Update RuntimeHintsAgentPlugin to use the native image code path #30422
• HTTP interface client should not have blockingTimeout set and leave it to the underlying client by default #30403
• Improve toString() for Profiles.of() implementation #30374
• Add ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource Resource selection hook #30369
• Optimize DefaultLifecycleProcessor::stopBeans #30361
• Deprecate AutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(Class, int, boolean) for consistent usage of createBean(Class) #30345
• Support setCharacterEncoding(null) in MockHttpServletResponse #30341
• Add support for converting a String to an Instant #30312
• Refine RouterFunctionMapping ordering consistency #30278
• CRaC Resource adapter for bean lifecycle in application context #30242
• Configuration options for virtual threads #30241
• Support for SequencedCollection/Set/Map #30239
• MethodArgumentNotValidException::errorsToStringList should include only the resolved message when MessageSource is used #30198
• Support @XmlSeeAlso in Jaxb2XmlDecoder #30167
• Add SpEL support for registered MethodHandles #30045
• Add test support to record async events, with JUnit Jupiter caveat #30020
• Returning a CompletableFuture.failure() from an async, transactional method should mark the transaction as roll back #30018
• Support @Scheduled on Reactive methods and Kotlin suspending functions #29924
• Compatibility with JVM checkpoint restore (OpenJDK's Project CRaC) #29921
• Validator factory methods with BiConsumer #29890
• Spring MVC and WebFlux method validation support that also adapts ConstraintViolations #29825
• Remove LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer #29559
• Avoid use of java.net.URL constructors #29481
• Creating relative resource for URL resource should create relative Resource even if relative path has URL in it #28522
• ModelAttributeMethodArgumentResolver does not support custom field binding for immutable objects #28284
• ConcurrentTaskScheduler and ConcurrentTaskExecutor can create an executor with no way to shut it down #27914
• R2DBC ConnectionFactory bean .close() method should be called/subscribed when available #26991
• org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ReactiveTypeHandler does not handle vendor-specific application/x-ndjson media types #26817
• Improve the experience of handling validation errors in controller methods #26219
• Compatibility with virtual threads (OpenJDK's Project Loom) #23443
• Avoid repeated attempts to load a failing ApplicationContext in the TestContext framework [SPR-9548] #14182

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Retain profiles used when running AOT #30421
• Automatic context propagation stops working after an error occurs #30013

📔 Documentation

• Introduce JVM checkpoint/restore support documentation #30647
• Fix link in Javadoc of PassThroughFilterChain #30365
• Clarify behavior of the Elvis SpEL operator in documentation #30352
• Fix link to releases feed #30340

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.15 #30665
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.8 #29754
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.7 #30514
• Upgrade to Kotlin Serialization 1.5 #30515
• Upgrade to SnakeYAML 2.0 #30048

❤️ Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @RemusRD, @aooohan, @asomov, @izeye, @jstansel, @kzander91, @luohongtu, @making, @rwinch, and @srivatsa-cfp

v6.0.10

⭐ New Features

• ClassLoader can be null in DeserializingConverter and should be annotated with @Nullable #30670
• Introduce TestExecutionListener for Micrometer's ObservationRegistry in the TestContext framework #30658
• Add missing hint for ResourceEditor #30628
• Add missing hint for converting String to URI #30627
• Redesign inner Pointcut implementations as standalone classes #30621
• Add missing @Nullable in DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory #30620
• Handle custom JMS acknowledgment modes as client acknowledge #30619
• Declare Advisor#isPerInstance() as default method #30614
• Improve error message for unsupported character in SpEL expression #30602
• Multipart data is always read irrelevant of handler response #30590
• Performance optimization in AbstractBeanFactoryBasedTargetSource.hashCode() #30576
• Log a warning when commons-logging is in the classpath #30575
• Always use MethodArgumentNotValidException(MethodParameter, BindingResult) constructor #30558
• Remove non-empty filename check in ContentDisposition builder #30537
• Add missing EntityManagerFactory hints for SharedEntityManagerCreator #30523
• Disable Hibernate reflection optimizer with native #30521
• Introduce a method in MockHttpServletRequestBuilder to set remote address #30497
• Skip class transformer in PersistenceUnitInfoDescriptor for native images #30492
• @Bean 'lite' mode not supported if @Bean methods are not declared locally #30449
• Align HibernateJpaVendorAdapter with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #30288
• Add nested propagation support to R2dbcTransactionManager #30134

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Cron expression scheduling might be triggered 1 millisecond earlier #30666
• Change of behaviour for UUID in bean validation output in v5.3.27 #30661
• Test context cache stats are not logged when ApplicationContext fails to load #30635
• Inconsistent ProxyCallbackFilter#equals/hashCode methods in CglibAopProxy #30615
• SpEL's CompoundExpression.toStringAST() incorrectly includes . for indexed properties #30610
• NPE in ReactiveTransactionSupport.unwrapIfResourceCleanupFailure #30597
• CollectionFactory.createMap(HashMap.class, 0) now returns a LinkedHashMap rather than a HashMap #30596
• ThreadLocalTargetSource does not include actual target bean name in NamedThreadLocal #30581
• ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter inconsistently publishes events from CompletableFuture #30578
• Unsupported SQL type: TIMESTAMP_WITH_TIMEZONE when using OffsetDateTime with MySQL #30556
• SpringBeanContainer not called with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #30545
• WebFlux returns 406 instead of RFC 7807 response for subtype of ProblemDetail #30533
• HTTP Interface client cannot send URI query parameter with multipart request #30520
• Transaction isolation level not working with R2dbcTransactionManager #30508
• Support for AOT processing with GraalVM tracing agent is not consistent #30511
• For @Bean method that returns null, @Autowired injects NullBean instead of null for cached arguments #30485
• MediaType property binding issue in native builds #30491
• InjectionMetadata AOT contributions do not check for existing property value #30476
• Spring Framework 6.0.8 appears to cause issues in OSGi environment #30389
• Empty @RequestMapping method should match both "" and "/" consistently #30293
• EclipseLinkJpaDialect: Unexpected default isolation levels #29997
• Memory leak with CglibAopProxy$ProxyCallbackFilter #26266

📔 Documentation

• Fix markup issue in Javadoc of QuartzCronField #30646
• Document @DirtiesContext semantics when declared at the class level and method level #30623
• Add missing Javadoc for RegisteredBean.resolveAutowiredArgument() #30609
• Fix invalid link in transaction resources #30570
• FileSystemUtils::deleteRecursively Javadoc refers to File instead of Path #30554
• Improve Javadoc for ExchangeFilterFunction #30543
• Update Javadoc and reference doc for WebMvcConfigurer to mention Boot's HttpMessageConverters #30538
• Add Javadoc since to InjectedElement.shouldInject() #30512
• Fix wording in r2dbc Statement Filters section of ref docs #30482
• Typo in Spring official documentation #30473
• Link for @javax.annotation.Nonnull is wrong in Javadoc for Spring's @NonNull #30455
• Improve how the build deals with javadoc invalid references #30428
• Docs: Remove duplicate in SpEL feature list #30404
• Document which @Scheduled attributes support SpEL expressions #29290

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to micrometer-bom 1.10.8 and context-propagation 1.0.3 #30657
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.8 #30655

❤️ Contributors

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

@Foolkin, @anyuruf, @galingerv, @izeye, @jmewes, @kihyuk-sung, @leewin12, @marcingrzejszczak, @rweisleder, @rwinch, @scordio, @ssang1105, and @vpavic

v5.3.28

⭐ New Features

• ClassLoader can be null in DeserializingConverter and should be annotated with @Nullable #30672
• Performance optimization in AbstractBeanFactoryBasedTargetSource.hashCode() #30585
• Consistent support for MultiValueMap and common Map implementations in CollectionFactory #30441
• Reject null and empty SpEL expressions #30373
• Introduce Environment.matchesProfiles() for profile expressions #30226

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Change of behaviour for UUID in bean validation output in v5.3.27 #30662
• Spring Framework 5.3.27 appears to cause issues in OSGi environment #30637
• Inconsistent ProxyCallbackFilter#equals/hashCode methods in CglibAopProxy #30616
• EclipseLinkJpaDialect: Unexpected default isolation levels #30589
• ThreadLocalTargetSource does not include actual target bean name in NamedThreadLocal #30586
• ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter inconsistently publishes events from CompletableFuture #30584
• For @Bean method that returns null, @Autowired injects NullBean instead of null for cached arguments #30551
• Make maximum SpEL expression length configurable #30446
• Respect TaskDecorator configuration on DefaultManagedTaskExecutor #30443

📔 Documentation

• Document which @Scheduled attributes support SpEL expressions #30642
• FileSystemUtils::deleteRecursively Javadoc refers to File instead of Path #30555

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.33 #30656

v6.0.9

⭐ New Features

• Consistent support for MultiValueMap and common Map implementations in CollectionFactory #30440
• Introduce internal constants for implicit bounds in TypeUtils #30423
• Update major/minor version properties in MockServletContext #30395
• Reject null and empty SpEL expressions #30371
• Support Test AOT processing with GraalVM tracing agent and Native Build Tools #30281
• Introduce Environment.matchesProfiles() for profile expressions #30206
• Optimize MultiValueMap iteration operations #29972

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Respect TaskDecorator configuration on DefaultManagedTaskExecutor #30442
• Qualifiers registered programmatically are not supported by AOT #30410
• Support for InjectionPoint in bean factory methods when using AOT #30401
• Bean methods with generic array/varargs parameters break native compilation #30407
• ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter supports non-matching generic events #30399
• Processing several @PersistenceContext injection points on the same class with AOT generates code that does not compile #30437
• Make maximum SpEL expression length configurable #30380
• Record beans do not compile to native images #30383
• Missing resource hint for @PropertySource#value #30376
• ApplicationEventPublisher - PayloadApplicationEvent not received by EventListener if event fired from child context #30360
• StringDecoder.decode() should release chunks on cancellation #30299
• Quote '?' in Quoted Printable filename #30252
• Missing reflection hint for custom PropertySourceFactory in native image #30175
• Aot generated sources fail to compile with 'File name too long' error #29846

📔 Documentation

• Update package-info for CGLIB fork #30461
• Clarify differences between GenericBeanDefinition and RootBeanDefinition #30444
• Document how to configure FactoryBean with a configurable target with AOT #30434
• Add Antora docs-build branch #30415
• Switch the reference documentation to Antora #30414
• @ResponseStatus documentation incorrect #30305

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.7 #30451
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.7 #30450

❤️ Contributors

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

@divcon, @izeye, @luozhenyu, @rwinch, @sigee, and @yuzawa-san

v6.0.8

⭐ New Features

• Disable variable assignment in SimpleEvaluationContext #30326
• Limit SpEL expression length #30325
• Limit string concatenation in SpEL expressions #30324
• Introduce StringUtils.truncate() #30290
• Introduce ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30286
• Introduce assertions against Cookie attributes in CookieResultMatchers for MockMvc #30285
• Polishing #30267
• Support SameSite cookie attribute in MockMvcHttpConnector #30264
• Update MockCookie to make use of Servlet 6.0 APIs and semantics for "attributes" #30263
• Refine initRequestBuilder in DefaultWebClient #30254
• HttpServerErrorException contains not-serializable field of type DefaultResponseErrorHandler #30224
• Add class hints for Jackson annotations on fields and methods #30208
• Add HttpMethod reflection hint to ObjectToObjectConverterRuntimeHints #30201
• Improve performance of canRead() in HttpMessageReader's #30192
• Optimize array creation in SpEL ConstructorReference #30189
• ConstructorResolver error hints about mixing indexed and named args #30169
• Replace Collections.unmodifiableList(new ArrayList(..)) with List.copyOf() #30166
• Add assert null validations for DefaultServerResponseBuilder #30157
• Use InputStream.readAllBytes() in FileCopyUtils.copyToByteArray() #30155
• Cache ServerHttpRequest::getMethod in AbstractServerHttpRequest #30139
• Use String.equals() in LiteralPathElement #30138
• Optimize some iterations in BodyExtractor and BodyInserter #30136
• Add a couple missing java.time types to StatementCreatorUtils #30123
• WebClient observations should not record CANCEL signals as aborted if response was received #30070
• Destroy method not found in native image if concrete bean type is not exposed #29545
• Contribute init/destroy lifecycle introspection hints for registered beans #29246

🐞 Bug Fixes

• NPE thrown for nonexistent default-destroy-method in XML config #30301
• Fix comparison of title in equals() and hashCode() of ProblemDetail #30294
• SSE breaks with indenting serializer in WebMvc.fn #30277
• @HttpExchange interface does not resolve return type correctly while using with suspending methods #30266
• Increase max regex length in SpEL expressions #30265
• Missing response information from client observation context when filter functions fail #30247
• NullPointerException on timeout in HttpComponentsClientHttpConnector when using Apache HttpComponents #30245
• Wrong MockRestRequestMatchers.header() method in spring-test being invoked (JDK issue?) #30220
• Refine generic type management in AbstractMessageWriterResultHandler #30214
• MvcUriComponentsBuilder.fromMethodCall breaks for controller with CharSequence return type #30210
• Encode IPV6 Zone IDs (%) in ReactorServerHttpRequest #30188
• Handle all exceptions for stored proc output param retrieval in SharedEntityManagerCreator #30161
• Fix IllegalArgumentException that prevents STOMP DISCONNECT from reaching the client #30120
• TypeNotPresentException: org/springframework/cglib/proxy/NoOp not present on Java 17 #30115

📔 Documentation

• Add since tags to sameSite() and attribute() in CookieResultMatchersDsl #30308
• Fix incorrect jakarta.inject artifact version #30270
• Fix @PathVariable reference documentation code snippets #30243
• Use diamond operator in examples in reference manual #30204
• Fix example in Javadoc for @EnableWebSocket #30183
• Fix anchor in link to "Web on Reactive Stack" chapter #30158
• Documentation for Vavr's Try method to trigger transaction rollbacks #30108
• Document that WebClient defaultStatusHandler do not apply to exchange* methods #30059

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.6 #30317
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.6 #30316

❤️ Contributors

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

@1993heqiang, @TAKETODAY, @ZouHongxue, @alexjansons, @divcon, @edyda99, @filipblondeel, @ghostg00, @giuseppemilicia, @izeye, @justin-tay, @krzyk, @kyuarl21, @quaff, @shitian9, @simonbasle, @srivatsa-cfp, @ssang1105, @stsypanov, @wizard4wu, and @yuzawa-san