4.3.21 Release

⭐ New Features

• SpringFactoriesLoader should tolerate whitespace [SPR-17413] #21946
• Expose mapped handler as request attribute in spring-webmvc [SPR-17518] #22050

🪲 Bug Fixes

• ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver started to log on WARN level [SPR-17383] #21916
• MethodValidationPostProcessor still validates FactoryBean methods on CGLIB proxies [SPR-17386] #21919
• Spring logs a nasty looking stack trace for unhandled classpath URL [SPR-17417] #21950
• ResourceUrlEncodingFilter does not work with HttpServletRequestWrapper [SPR-17421] #21954
• RestTemplate does not throw exception for custom error codes [SPR-17439] #21971
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate batchUpdate returns an array of size 1 when the batchArgs passed is an empty array [SPR-17476] #22008
• FastByteArrayInputStream.read() wrong return value [SPR-17492] #22024
• Reserializing a lenient fallback DefaultListableBeanFactory causes an error [SPR-17508] #22040
• getBeanNamesForType(ResolvableType) doesn't work for raw singleton instance from @Bean method with generic return type [SPR-17524] #22056

📔 Documentation

• Misleading alias definition example in reference documentation, part 1.3.1 [SPR-17536] #22068