4.1.4 Release

⭐ New Features

• Spring's JMX support can rely on native MXBean detection on Java 6+ [SPR-12574] #17175
• Improve diagnostics when AnnotationJmxAttributeSource triggers an ArrayStoreException from Class.getAnnotation [SPR-12572] #17173
• org.springframework.cache.aspectj.JCacheCacheAspect is missing from META-INF/aop.xml in spring-aspects [SPR-12571] #17172
• PayloadArgumentResolver enforces Validator unnecessarily [SPR-12567] #17168
• MockMvcBuilders should populate ServletContextAttribute WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE to enable view technologies use WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(…) [SPR-12553] #17155
• Configured RequestConfig in HttpClient gets overwritten by default [SPR-12540] #17144
• Better implementation of showSql for EclipseLinkJpaVendorAdapter [SPR-12528] #17133
• CacheAspectSupport 's generateKey method should not concatenate Strings [SPR-12527] #17132
• Add DEBUG/INFO logging in AbstractBeanFactory.registerScope() [SPR-12519] #17124
• Allow sending of binary WebSocket messages in StompSubProtocolHandler [SPR-12475] #17081
• Improve Constructor Resolver Diagnostics [SPR-12543] #16975
• Upgrade HttpComponentsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor to require Apache HttpComponents 4.3 [SPR-11113] #15739

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Wrong TransactionManager selected when mixing @Transactional with and w/o qualifier [SPR-12606] #17207
• Duplicated interceptors in HandlerExecutionChain after intermediate getInterceptors() call [SPR-12566] #17167
• VerifyError for compiled SpEL expression with primitive/reference type mix when using == [SPR-12557] #17159
• AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster "lost" application listener [SPR-12545] #17148
• @SessionAttributes not populated when going directly to POST and redirecting while ignoreDefaultModelOnRedirect=true [SPR-12542] #17146
• @Transactional qualifier is ignored by TransactionAspectSupport if default transaction manager is set [SPR-12541] #17145
• Performance - hashCode method of AbstractFallbackTransactionAttributeSource.DefaultCacheKey doesn't take targetClass into account [SPR-12536] #17141
• CollectionFactory should create empty EnumSets and EnumMaps [SPR-12533] #17138
• @EnableMBeanExport exposes scoped proxies and their targets [SPR-12529] #17134
• Prototype with changing bean class does not get populated with dependencies after type switch [SPR-12526] #17131
• Regression: SpEL expression with Arrays.asList and empty array [SPR-12522] #17127
• AnnotationTransactionAspect retains reference to JpaTransactionManager from closed context [SPR-12518] #17123
• HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory does not set connection request timeout on request config [SPR-12166] #16780

📔 Documentation

• Add TimeZone and ZoneId to list of supported method arguments [SPR-12575] #17176
• Update documentation after SPR-3542 [SPR-12570] #17171
• Add note to reference material about difference between XML destroy-method and @Bean destroyMethod behavior [SPR-12534] #17139
• I can use ';' and EOL for delimiter of base-package attribute(component scan) [SPR-12523] #17128
• Names of Maven Dependencies [SPR-12517] #17122