4.0.9 Release

⭐ New Features

• Concurrent registration/iteration in PropertySourcesPropertyResolver [SPR-12428] #17034
• Making it easier to replace "RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal" [SPR-12460] #17065
• NotReadablePropertyException should take causing exception as constructor argument [SPR-12467] #17073
• Allow overriding InvocableHandlerMethod.invoke and/or ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle in subclasses [SPR-12484] #17090
• Consistent bridge method handling in annotation post-processors [SPR-12495] #17101
• Check the user for a SockJS request [SPR-12497] #17103
• CacheAspectSupport 's generateKey method should not concatenate Strings [SPR-12527] #17132
• PayloadArgumentResolver enforces Validator unnecessarily [SPR-12567] #17168
• Improve diagnostics when AnnotationJmxAttributeSource triggers an ArrayStoreException from Class.getAnnotation [SPR-12572] #17173
• Spring's JMX support can rely on native MXBean detection on Java 6+ [SPR-12574] #17175

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Using TransactionManagementConfigurer causes StackOverflowError that results in NoClassDefFoundError for FatalBeanException [SPR-10787] #15413
• webjar stops working [SPR-12432] #17038
• Introspection with BeanUtils started failing against java.awt.Window [SPR-12434] #17039
• NPE in org.springframework.core.MethodParameter.getParameterName (possible race condition) [SPR-12453] #17058
• Unable to initialize WebAsyncTask with executorName [SPR-12457] #17062
• AnnotationAttributesReadingVisitor.doVisitEnd doesn't handle possible null return from AnnotationUtils.getAnnotations [SPR-12493] #17099
• SpEL: problem with static methods conflicting with instance methods [SPR-12502] #17107
• Base packages referenced from @ControllerAdvice must contain at least one Controller [SPR-12506] #17111
• Synchronize message sending in HTTP SockJS sessions with request initialization [SPR-12516] #17121
• Prototype with changing bean class does not get populated with dependencies after type switch [SPR-12526] #17131
• Performance - hashCode method of AbstractFallbackTransactionAttributeSource.DefaultCacheKey doesn't take targetClass into account [SPR-12536] #17141
• AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster "lost" application listener [SPR-12545] #17148
• Duplicated interceptors in HandlerExecutionChain after intermediate getInterceptors() call [SPR-12566] #17167

📔 Documentation

• Star character interpreted as bold expression in generated documentation [SPR-12456] #17061
• Misleading documentation for SqlRowSet [SPR-12476] #17082
• I can use ';' and EOL for delimiter of base-package attribute(component scan) [SPR-12523] #17128
• Update documentation after SPR-3542 [SPR-12570] #17171
• Add TimeZone and ZoneId to list of supported method arguments [SPR-12575] #17176