Spring Web Services 5.0.0 M1 Release Notes

Spring Web Services 5.0.0-M1 Release Notes

Upgrading from Spring Web Services 4.1

Deprecations from Spring Web Services 4.1

Classes, methods, and properties that were deprecated in Spring Web Services 4.1 and marked for removal in 5.0 have been removed in this release. Please ensure that you aren’t calling deprecated methods before upgrading.

XMLUnit Harmonization

Support for XMLUnit 1 has been dropped. For consistency, the e org.springframework.ws.test.support.matcher.xmlunit2 package has been renamed to e org.springframework.ws.test.support.matcher.xmlunit.

Minimum Requirements Changes

New and Noteworthy

Nullability Support

Support for JSpecify has been added. Whenever an API accepts a potentially null value or may return a null value an explicit org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable has been added.

This follows the lead of Spring Framework 7, see the reference documentation for more details.

Dependency Upgrades

Spring Web Services 5.0.0-M1 moves to new versions of several Spring projects:

• Spring Framework 7.0.0-M6

• Spring Security 7.0.0-M1

Third-party dependencies have also been updated, some of the more noteworthy of which are the following:

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Miscellaneous

Apart from the changes listed above, there have also been lots of minor tweaks and improvements including:

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Deprecations in Spring Web Services 5.0.0-M1

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