4.1.8 Release

⭐ New Features

• Make AbstractFallbackTransactionAttributeSource.computeTransactionAttribute(…) protected [SPR-13246] #17837
• Avoid ambiguous property warning for setter methods with multiple parameters [SPR-13349] #17933
• Support for last-modified resolution in Tomcat's unpackwar=false mode [SPR-13393] #17434
• ClasspathXmlApplicationContext cannot be closed twice [SPR-13425] #18004
• Protect against RFD exploits [SPR-13548] #18124
• Compatibility with GlassFish 4.1.1 / Tyrus 1.12 [SPR-13566] #18142

🪲 Bug Fixes

• ConcurrentModificationException when doing a merge on AbstractEnvironment [SPR-13213] #17805
• PathResourceResolver should not resolve "/" as a JAR resource [SPR-13241] #17832
• PropertyOrFieldReference throws ClassCastException [SPR-13247] #17838
• Race condition when inbound message handling fails and StompSubProtocolHandler sends ERROR frame [SPR-13326] #17911
• Regression: SpringHandlerInstantiator breaks stand-alone support in the MVC Test framework [SPR-13375] #17957
• ScopedProxyMode resolution for custom scope meta-annotation not working with @Bean methods (with ASM-based scanning) [SPR-13394] #17974
• StompDecoder fails for partial headers containing escape sequence [SPR-13416] #17995
• ConcurrentModificationException in SingleConnectionFactory$AggregatedExceptionListener [SPR-13421] #18000
• MessagingException should not provide empty description String to NestedRuntimeException [SPR-13447] #18027
• DeferredResult not thread-safe for isSetOrExpired call [SPR-13451] #18031
• ConcurrentMapCache.putIfAbsent doesn't support null values [SPR-13458] #18038
• AbstractEmbeddedDatabaseConfigurer.shutdown does not close JDBC resources [SPR-13474] #18053
• YamlProcessor subclasses can no longer instantiate StrictMapAppenderConstructor [SPR-13504] #18082
• Null Pointer when receiving an invalid transport type during SockJS request [SPR-13545] #18121
• Consistently detect spring-beans.dtd reference [SPR-13549] #18125
• JCacheCache doesn't recognize null values in other JVMs [SPR-13553] #18129
• DefaultSubscriptionRegistry loses track of subscribers in its cache [SPR-13555] #18131
• Close processing triggered by shutdown hook isn't thread safe [SPR-13556] #18132
• Clarify whether HttpInputMessage.getBody() is allowed to return null [SPR-13563] #18139
• NullPointerException in DefaultSubscriptionRegistry.removeSubscription [SPR-13205] #17797
• Wrong assertion message in ShallowEtagHeaderFilter [SPR-13194] #17786
• STOMP CONNECT ignored ("No session for...") when using websocket:decorator-factories [SPR-13190] #17782
• ConcurrentModificationException when calling SimpMessagingTemplate.convertAndSend [SPR-13185] #17777

📔 Documentation

• Misleading note on readonly and disabled flags in spring-form.tld [SPR-13397] #17977
• Documentation for Portlet MVC does not refer to Portlet 2.0 spec (JSR-286) [SPR-13513] #18090
• Dispel the myth that Spring MVC Test only works with JUnit [SPR-13552] #18128