4.3 RC2 Release

⭐ New Features

• SpEL Compiler: problems using primitives with instanceof operator [SPR-14250] #18823
• Timeout problem with Spring and Atomikos [SPR-14239] #18812
• Allow @Cacheable method to return java.util.Optional variant of cached value [SPR-14230] #18804
• Add get/set-IfUnmodifiedSince, get/set-IfMatch methods on HttpHeaders [SPR-14228] #18802
• Behavior of checkNotModified(String etag, long lastModifiedTimestamp) does not match HTTP recommendations [SPR-14224] #18798
• Consistent handling of multi-valued headers in HttpHeaders [SPR-14223] #18797
• Refactor HTTP Range support with a new ResourceRegion class [SPR-14221] #18795
• ServletWebRequest.isEtagNotModified does not support commas and spaces in client ETags [SPR-14216] #18790
• Support non-blocking receiveTimeout in AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer [SPR-14212] #18786
• ScriptTemplateView can't load web-app resources [SPR-14210] #18784
• Support manual ACK and NACK in Stomp Client [SPR-14208] #18782
• HttpSessionRequiredException should have a getter for 'expected session attribute' [SPR-14206] #18780
• ResponseEntity should allow the usage of unassigned HTTP status codes [SPR-14205] #18779
• PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver should not re-resolve root URLs [SPR-14202] #18776
• @RequestHeader doesn't accept RFC-1123 for conversion to java.time.Instant [SPR-14201] #18775
• DefaultMessageListenerContainer doesn't shutdown gracefully if long recovery interval is set [SPR-14200] #18774
• Java 8 default methods not detected as bean properties [SPR-14198] #18772
• Add text/markdown to MediaType [SPR-14192] #18765
• Support test annotations on interfaces [SPR-14184] #18755
• Support @BeforeTransaction and @AfterTransaction on interface default methods [SPR-14183] #18754
• Let @Scheduled work with a non-void method how is possible with task:scheduled [SPR-14175] #18746
• Rename MimeType's getCharSet() to getCharset() [SPR-14172] #18744
• Improve failure metadata that is available from BeanInstantiationException [SPR-14166] #18738
• RestTemplate: Support default urlVariables at template level [SPR-14147] #18719
• Placeholder resolution for annotation attributes is not active by default [SPR-14140] #18712
• Add method to TestPropertySourceUtils to add properties files directly to the environment [SPR-14131] #18703
• Improve MimeTypeUtils to handle the case of only a delimiter passed [SPR-14124] #18696
• Unable to define empty java.util.Optional bean in spring xml [SPR-14121] #18693
• Possibility to configure a custom WebJarAssetLocator [SPR-14092] #18664
• Proper load-time weaving support for Hibernate 5 [SPR-13886] #18459
• AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator should consistently detect package-visible methods [SPR-14174] #17890
• @Scheduled methods in @Lazy beans are not scheduled [SPR-12872] #17470
• Improve handling of missing JSF session in SessionScope [SPR-12402] #17010
• ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor should unregister tasks on destruction of individual beans [SPR-12216] #16830
• Detect LoadTimeWeaver bean when declared through @Bean method as well [SPR-10856] #15483

🪲 Bug Fixes

• AntPathMatcher Regression for trimTokens=true [SPR-14247] #18820
• CharacterEncodingFilter should have an option to avoid forcing encoding on responses [SPR-14240] #18813
• Annotated class with @SendToUser overrides @SendTo on method [SPR-14238] #18811
• Regression: Handler method detection reporting ambiguous methods for explicit HEAD mapping [SPR-14182] #18753
• MockWebResponseBuilder can't handle null domain in cookie [SPR-14169] #18741
• AntPathMatcher regression in 4.3 RC1 [SPR-14141] #18713

📔 Documentation

• Add note constrain/restriction for task:scheduled about method signature such as @Scheduled [SPR-14195] #18768
• Update Testing chapter regarding avoiding false positives with JPA [SPR-9032] #13671

4.2.6 Release

⭐ New Features

• Warn about non-static BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor declarations on @Configuration classes [SPR-14234] #18808
• ApplicationListenerDetector should prevent serialization of its ApplicationContext reference [SPR-14214] #18788
• Avoid hard logging of WebApplicationInitializer classes [SPR-14213] #18787
• three constructors in the org.springframework.expression.spel.ast package are not public [SPR-14181] #18752
• MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter should not always log a warning [SPR-14163] #18735
• Print EhCache cache manager name when initializing [SPR-14110] #18682
• AbstractStaxXMLReader should recognize standard features such as the string interning feature [SPR-14047] #18619
• Prevent Quartz XSD from being fetched from the Internet [SPR-13706] #18281

🪲 Bug Fixes

• AsyncResult calls SuccessCallback when it should call FailureCallback [SPR-14249] #18822
• AbstractRequestLoggingFilter appends null query string [SPR-14244] #18817
• Deadlock possible with AspectJ aspects and multi-threading [SPR-14241] #18814
• DefaultLifecycleProcessor hangs on shutdown when stopping with internalJmsListenerEndpointRegistry [SPR-14233] #18807
• Reactor2TcpClient does not remove TcpClient instances after connection closed [SPR-14231] #18805
• Reactor2TcpClient leaks threads on shutdown [SPR-14229] #18803
• SocketUtils fails to find a port when providing only two ports [SPR-14211] #18785
• FastByteArrayInputStream.read returns incorrect result [SPR-14209] #18783
• WebSocketMessageBrokerStats does not work unless SockJS is enabled with WebSocket XML namespace [SPR-14190] #18763
• NPE thrown when calling methods with an empty @Caching annotation [SPR-14162] #18734
• SimpleTransactionScope does not suspend and resume its scoped objects [SPR-14148] #18720
• Regression: If-Modified-Since value of zero not accepted anymore [SPR-14144] #18716
• WebSocketSessionDecorator.sendMessage does not delegate [SPR-14139] #18711
• AbstractWebSocketSession.sendMessage race condition [SPR-14138] #18710
• Java boolean is not handled correctly when used with Oracle JDBC driver [SPR-14116] #18688
• TransportHandlingSockJsService.scheduleSessionTask() doesn't log removed sessions [SPR-14111] #18683
• Wrong detection of event type on ApplicationListener<> when using lambdas (ClassCast Exception) [SPR-14109] #18681
• SockJS / XHR Polling does not reset connection for heartbeat [SPR-14107] #18679
• @JmsListener with autoStartup=false will never start [SPR-14105] #18677
• @RequestHeader HttpHeaders fails with NPE against null header value [SPR-14091] #18663
• Type annotations cause ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ASM ClassReader [SPR-14089] #18661
• DefaultCorsProcessor's origin comparison is restrictive and inefficient [SPR-14080] #18652
• Reset Expires header in WebContentGenerator when caching resources [SPR-14053] #18625
• ModelAndView is replaced when a RedirectView is used [SPR-14045] #18617
• Regression: Early instantiation of a bean prevents proxying for @Async in 4.2.x but works in 4.1.x [SPR-14030] #18602
• Wrong ResolvableType for Event not extending from ApplicationEvent [SPR-14029] #18601
• springUrl Velocity macro should encode the given URI using the response [SPR-14027] #18599
• Scripted beans not updated after a script compilation error in getScriptedObjectType [SPR-14007] #18579
• Regression: ResourceHandlerRegistration setCachePeriod doesn't set the correct response header anymore [SPR-14005] #18577
• Regression: RequestMappingHandlerAdapter with synchronizeOnSession=true calls invokeHandlerMethod twice [SPR-13999] #18572
• LinkedCaseInsensitiveMap doesn't implement getOrDefault properly [SPR-13981] #18553
• First new line character is removed when use form:textarea tag [SPR-13503] #18081

📔 Documentation

• Section 19.3.2 of reference mentions Hibernate 3 should be just Hibernate [SPR-14176] #18747
• @EnableScheduling javadoc has incomplete XML example [SPR-14145] #18717
• documentation : SpEL / Expression support for defining bean definitions / XML based configuration (9.4.1) [SPR-14074] #18646
• Wrong RFC reference in Base64Utils documentation [SPR-14067] #18639

3.2.17 Release

⭐ New Features

• SimpleTriggerFactoryBean and CronTriggerFactoryBean fail without jobDetail [SPR-13604] #18182
• Prevent Quartz XSD from being fetched from the Internet [SPR-13706] #18281
• Backport MVC config path config options to 3.2.x [SPR-14186] #18757

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Handle RejectedExecutionException in WebAsyncManager [SPR-13836] #18409
• NullPointerException while building error message in InvocableHandlerMethod [SPR-13917] #18491
• ReflectiveMethodResolver chooses parent class over child for static methods [SPR-13918] #18492
• AbstractMarshaller's DocumentBuilderFactory instance may be used by several threads simultaneously [SPR-13935] #18507
• TimerManagerTaskScheduler.TimerScheduledFuture.getDelay is inverted [SPR-13977] #18549
• Scripted beans not updated after a script compilation error in getScriptedObjectType [SPR-14007] #18579
• ModelAndView is replaced when a RedirectView is used [SPR-14045] #18617
• @RequestHeader HttpHeaders fails with NPE against null header value [SPR-14091] #18663
• NPE thrown when calling methods with an empty @Caching annotation [SPR-14162] #18734
• Deadlock possible with AspectJ aspects and multi-threading [SPR-14241] #18814
• AbstractRequestLoggingFilter appends null query string [SPR-14244] #18817

📔 Documentation

• wrong example given at section 17.4 Handler mappings [SPR-13832] #18405
• @EnableScheduling javadoc has incomplete XML example [SPR-14145] #18717

4.3 RC1 Release

⭐ New Features

• Scoped proxies are fragile with respect to serialization [SPR-14117] #18689
• Auto-detect Kotlin Jackson module [SPR-14108] #18680
• Make localized field names lookup extensible in JSR-303 validation messages [SPR-14104] #18676
• LocalValidatorFactoryBean should expose a hook for using a custom ValidationProviderResolver [SPR-14100] #18672
• AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource should never apply to GroovyObject methods [SPR-14095] #18667
• AsyncRestTemplate should trigger no-output HTTP requests immediately as well [SPR-14093] #18665
• Refine TestPropertySourceUtils for Spring Boot usage [SPR-14088] #18660
• PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver should enforce consistent alphabetical sorting of directory content [SPR-14085] #18657
• Add setMultiTenantConnectionProvider to org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean [SPR-14072] #18644
• Support for HTTP Vary configuration (e.g. in reaction to locale-based rendering) [SPR-14070] #18642
• MockMvcWebConnection should share CookieManager with HtmlUnit driver [SPR-14066] #18638
• Allow @Autowired to be declared on parameters [SPR-14057] #18629
• Support creation of SynthesizingMethodParameter for constructor parameter [SPR-14054] #18626
• MockHttpServletResponse should convert Cookies into Set-Cookie header [SPR-14051] #18623
• ReflectionTestUtils should automatically unwrap proxies [SPR-14050] #18622
• DefaultUserDestinationResolver does not support "." separator convention [SPR-14044] #18616
• Reject @ManagedResource a on class which is not public [SPR-14042] #18614
• BigDecimal to Integer/Short/Byte should overflow like BigDecimal to Long does [SPR-14041] #18613
• HTTP persistent connections for HTTP Invoker and RestTemplate [SPR-14040] #18612
• Support conversion between Enum and Integer [SPR-14039] #18611
• Provide flag to allow ServletTestExecutionListener to run without @WebAppConfiguration [SPR-14035] #18607
• InjectionPoint/DependencyDescriptor as injectable argument for @Bean methods [SPR-14033] #18605
• Adding ability to read result sets row-by-row for MySql driver [SPR-14028] #18600
• Reconsider enablement of JNDIPropertySource by default [SPR-14026] #18598
• Support for OkHttp 3 [SPR-14024] #18596
• Remove double slash from resolved WebJar resources [SPR-14018] #18590
• Custom key classes for HashMap should implement Comparable [SPR-14017] #18589
• Make TestContextManager.getTestContext() public [SPR-14011] #18583
• Support placeholder for @CrossOrigin [SPR-14010] #18582
• Allow @ComponentScan custom filters to implement *Aware interfaces [SPR-14009] #18581
• Allow non-public @Transactional test methods [SPR-14000] #18573
• Introduce ContextCustomizer API in the TestContext framework [SPR-13998] #18571
• Support @BeforeTransaction and AfterTransaction on non-public methods [SPR-13997] #18570
• Validator is not set after initializing web socket MessageBroker from xml configuration [SPR-13996] #18569
• Introduce common composed annotations for web scopes [SPR-13993] #18566
• Introduce common composed annotations for @RequestMapping [SPR-13992] #18565
• Remove @BootstrapWith from @WebAppConfiguration [SPR-13991] #18564
• Unique XML-specified constructor not accepted in case of unresolvable name [SPR-13987] #18559
• Consistent resolution of factory method exceptions [SPR-13985] #18557
• Support JacksonXmlModule.setDefaultUseWrapper [SPR-13975] #18547
• Support repeatable annotations as composed annotations [SPR-13973] #18545
• Allow a single element to override an array attribute in a meta-annotation [SPR-13972] #18544
• Improve CacheOperation equals/hashCode implementation performance [SPR-13970] #18542
• Allow spring.factories to load package private classes [SPR-13969] #18541
• Improve core container exception meta-data [SPR-13968] #18540
• TestContextManager.afterTestMethod doesn't handle java.lang.Error! [SPR-13961] #18534
• Consistent behavior for unwrap(null) on JPA and Bean Validation wrappers [SPR-13960] #18533
• ObjectFactory lacks method for getting bean with specified constructor arguments [SPR-13956] #18529
• Allow @ContextConfiguration to be omitted [SPR-13955] #18528
• Provide shorter 'alias' for SpringJUnit4ClassRunner [SPR-13954] #18527
• @RequestHeader name/value does not accept placeholders [SPR-13952] #18525
• Prevent accessing the session in ServletRequestAttributes.updateAccessedSessionAttributes() if no session attributes need to be updated [SPR-13950] #18522
• Mis-typed URL should give 404 not 405 [SPR-13944] #18516
• An ObjectFactory variant with lenient not-unique handling [SPR-13943] #18515
• OkHttp RestTemplate adapter uses inappropriate async requests [SPR-13942] #18514
• Support for Common Annotations 1.1's javax.annotation.Resource.lookup() [SPR-13941] #18513
• Duplicate method signature in reference doc example [SPR-13940] #18512
• Provide way in MVC Java config to modify rather than replace default HandlerExceptionResolvers [SPR-13931] #18503
• ThreadPoolTaskExecutor does not allow for decorating Runnables [SPR-13930] #18502
• Consistent API between spring-web and spring-messaging HandlerMethod infrastructure [SPR-13929] #18501
• Speed up AntPathMatcher by doing prefix-match [SPR-13913] #18487
• Ability to add a custom ResourceLoader conveniently in AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext or conveniently as can be done via spring boot [SPR-13905] #18479
• Convenient access to session and request attributes in controller methods [SPR-13894] #18468
• Support 'primary' transaction managers and data sources in the TestContext Framework [SPR-13891] #18465
• AnnotationAwareOrderComparator getP...

4.2.5 Release

⭐ New Features

• Support of SQL warnings in ScriptUtils [SPR-13959] #18532
• PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver should provide consistent logging [SPR-13923] #18495
• Automatically register a fixed path pattern when using a FixedStrategy with VersionResourceResolver [SPR-13883] #18456
• Improve Jackson 2.7 compatibility [SPR-13853] #18426
• Lot of undesired WARN logs after migration from Spring 3 to Spring 4 [SPR-13833] #18406
• Oracle 12c JDBC driver throws inconsistent exception from getParameterType (affecting setNull calls) [SPR-13825] #18398
• SimpleTriggerFactoryBean and CronTriggerFactoryBean fail without jobDetail [SPR-13604] #18182
• SimpleNamespaceContext does not implement the full contract of the NamespaceContext interface [SPR-13713] #17620

🪲 Bug Fixes

• TimerManagerTaskScheduler.TimerScheduledFuture.getDelay is inverted [SPR-13977] #18549
• @Lazy with @Autowired(required=false) throws NullPointerException on invocation [SPR-13967] #18539
• Spring ORM doesn't support addNamedQuery with EclipseLink [SPR-13957] #18530
• (Web)MergedContextConfiguration.equals is not symmetrical [SPR-13951] #18524
• AbstractMarshaller's DocumentBuilderFactory instance may be used by several threads simultaneously [SPR-13935] #18507
• Spring fails to find bean's destroy method in case there is a bridge method [SPR-13922] #18494
• ReflectiveMethodResolver chooses parent class over child for static methods [SPR-13918] #18492
• NullPointerException while building error message in InvocableHandlerMethod [SPR-13917] #18491
• AbstractXlsxView does not work on WebSphere Liberty Profile [SPR-13910] #18484
• Regression: BufferedImageHttpMessageConverter does not set content-type header [SPR-13906] #18480
• STOMP over SockJS is unreliable [SPR-13904] #18478
• @Transactional tests are executed without a transaction if transaction manager is not discovered [SPR-13895] #18469
• Regression: SPR-12443 breaks singleton bean references within a configuration class with null arguments [SPR-13887] #18460
• LocalSessionFactoryBean (hibernate5) does not correctly pass custom ClassLoader to Hibernate [SPR-13879] #18452
• ServletServerHttpRequest.getURI() escape the query parameters twice [SPR-13876] #18449
• SessionDisconnectEvent.getUser() returns null instead of the session user [SPR-13871] #18444
• ResponseEntity CacheControl ignored / extended by RequestMappingHandlerAdapter [SPR-13867] #18440
• FastByteArrayOutputStream$FastByteArrayInputStream behaves incorrectly when no data is available [SPR-13858] #18431
• Spring does not reliably detect circular imports in Java configurations [SPR-13852] #18425
• RequestPartMethodArgumentResolver should defensively handle MethodParameter nesting level and java.util.Optional access [SPR-13850] #18423
• Regression: ResourceUrlEncodingFilter can throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException with relative URL [SPR-13847] #18420
• Regression: Shared EntityManager proxy insists on actualTransactiveActive flag even with SYNCHRONIZATION_NEVER [SPR-13838] #18411
• Handle RejectedExecutionException in WebAsyncManager [SPR-13836] #18409
• Regression: Spring 4.2.4 fails to load configuration class on Google App Engine [SPR-13829] #18402
• Preserve HTTP headers when caching resources in CachingResourceResolver [SPR-13817] #18390
• Correct spring-websocket-4.2 versus spring-websocket-4.1 xsd declarations [SPR-13804] #18377
• DefaultMessageListenerContainer hangs on shutdown [SPR-11787] #16409

📔 Documentation

• @ComponentScan's includeFilters javadoc is misleading [SPR-13844] #18417
• wrong example given at section 17.4 Handler mappings [SPR-13832] #18405

4.2.4 Release

⭐ New Features

• Base64Utils: Support URL and filename safe alphabet (RFC 4648) [SPR-13784] #22188
• Provide an easy way to populate a request in MockMvc for form input scenarios [SPR-13801] #18374
• Defensive error reporting when ConfigurationClassParser introspects declared methods via StandardAnnotationMetadata [SPR-13791] #18364
• ReflectionUtils cache uses up a fairly big chunk of heap even [SPR-13783] #18357
• Allow for setting TTL on a response sent by @JmsListener [SPR-13774] #18348
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server driver version 4 and above [SPR-13772] #18346
• AbstractRequestLoggingFilter with startAsync: unwrap request to find ContentCachingRequestWrapper [SPR-13764] #18338
• Configure view controllers with the ApplicationContext [SPR-13762] #18335
• BeanFactoryAnnotationUtils.qualifiedBeanOfType should not instantiate all beans of given type before checking qualifier [SPR-13741] #18314
• Consistent bean type checking for endpoint handlers [SPR-13725] #18298
• Add JSR 310 Period and Duration Converters [SPR-13721] #18294
• Cache detected factory methods in ObjectToObjectConverter [SPR-13703] #18278
• @ManagedOperationParameter not marked with @Target/@Retention/@Documented/@Repeatable [SPR-13700] #18275
• Allow SpelCompiler to compile MapAccessor expressions [SPR-13638] #18215
• Conversion support for java.time.YearMonth (as well as MonthDay) [SPR-13518] #18095
• Allow the ManagedResource/Attribute/Metric/Operation to be placed on interface [SPR-13138] #17729
• Allow setting custom ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner on AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext [SPR-9324] #13962
• Add conversion support for Joda Duration and Period [SPR-6706] #11372

🪲 Bug Fixes

• java.lang.NullPointerException at org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultHandlers.(MockM‌​vcResultHandlers.java:44) [SPR-13802] #18375
• VersionResourceResolver's versionStrategyMap should keep insertion order [SPR-13798] #18371
• Jdbc4SqlXmlHandler should return null as documented (instead of throwing NPE) [SPR-13782] #18356
• VerifyError when trying to compile constructor invocation with SpEL [SPR-13781] #18355
• Regression: HttpEntityMethodProcessor does not allow other Http methods than defined in the HttpMethod Enum [SPR-13776] #18350
• MessagingMessageListenerAdapter provides a BytesMessage that has already been read [SPR-13769] #18343
• Inefficient and inconsistent setAllowedOrigins collection types in AbstractSockJsService/OriginHandshakeInterceptor [SPR-13761] #18334
• allowed-origins are not resolved from properties variables [SPR-13760] #18333
• ControllerAdviceBean javadoc is inconsistent with its implementation [SPR-13759] #18332
• ResourceUrlEncodingFilter improperly encodes URLs on root page [SPR-13757] #18330
• Second call to MVC handler method with Optional parameter fails with argument type mismatch [SPR-13755] #18328
• MockHttpServletResponse.setIntHeader throws exception for 'Content-Length' header [SPR-13752] #18325
• The URL content negotiation "format" parameter values are case sensitive and only lowercase values are accepted [SPR-13747] #18320
• SubProtocolWebSocketHandler does not update lastSessionCheckTime [SPR-13745] #18318
• NoClassDefFoundError: org/joda/time/YearMonth for joda-time < 2 [SPR-13730] #18303
• CssLinkResourceTransformer is incompatible with FixedVersionStrategy VersionResourceResolver [SPR-13727] #18300
• Regression: AsyncAnnotationBeanPostProcessor fails on startup when encountering ambiguous TaskExecutor beans [SPR-13720] #18293
• Regression: ShallowEtagHeaderFilter does not add Etag header for ResponseEntity returning methods [SPR-13717] #18290
• Regression: UriTemplate does not match when URI ends with slash [SPR-13705] #18280
• SimpAnnotationMethodMessageHandler fails when no applicationDestinationPrefixes configured or Rabbit endpoint present [SPR-13704] #18279
• SynthesizedAnnotation is not visible from class loader [SPR-13696] #18271
• Regression: Spring on WildFly causing ClassNotFoundException in ASM when deployed outside of EAR [SPR-13695] #18270
• HTTP Range requests hang on large file in nested jar [SPR-13661] #18236
• EventListenerMethodProcessor resolves classes of lazy beans causing NoClassDefFoundError [SPR-13712] #17619
• SpEL compiler creating bad byte code for some values that are added together via OpPlus [SPR-12426] #17032

📔 Documentation

• Documentation is missing for sendTimeLimit bufferSizeLimit for ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator [SPR-13753] #18326
• Cacheable#key should define the available arguments [SPR-13746] #18319

4.1.9 Release

⭐ New Features

• Allow setting custom ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner on AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext [SPR-9324] #13962
• Skip Content-Disposition header when status != 2xx [SPR-13588] #18165
• Avoid NPE for anonymous SqlParameter in CallMetaDataContext [SPR-13628] #18206
• Content-Disposition with fixed file name "f.txt" causes confusion [SPR-13643] #18220
• Revisit BeansException warn logging after startup failure [SPR-13663] #18238
• Implement containsKey for HttpHeaders returned from ServletServerHttpResponse [SPR-13668] #18243
• BeanFactoryAnnotationUtils.qualifiedBeanOfType should not instantiate all beans of given type before checking qualifier [SPR-13741] #18314
• Configure view controllers with the ApplicationContext [SPR-13762] #18335
• AbstractRequestLoggingFilter with startAsync: unwrap request to find ContentCachingRequestWrapper [SPR-13764] #18338
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server driver version 4 and above [SPR-13772] #18346
• Allow for setting TTL on a response sent by @JmsListener [SPR-13774] #18348
• Defensive error reporting when ConfigurationClassParser introspects declared methods via StandardAnnotationMetadata [SPR-13791] #18364

🪲 Bug Fixes

• SpEL compiler creating bad byte code for some values that are added together via OpPlus [SPR-12426] #17032
• mvc:view-resolvers does not reliably find declared ContentNegotiationManager [SPR-13559] #18135
• Content-Disposition header causes download in browser for Spring Boot Actuator endpoints [SPR-13587] #18164
• AbstractJdbcCall's compiled variable should be declared as volatile [SPR-13617] #18195
• webjars resource handling may run into NPE in JarURLInputStream [SPR-13620] #18198
• Content-Disposition added for @ResponseBody methods explicitly mapped to ".html" or other extensions [SPR-13629] #18207
• SerializableTypeWrapper.MethodInvokeTypeProvider can be exploited for unsafe deserialization [SPR-13656] #18232
• CommonsMultipartFile.getOriginalFilename() does not strip file path properly [SPR-13662] #18237
• AbstractApplicationContext.isRunning throws IllegalStateException when called too early [SPR-13667] #18242
• SimpAnnotationMethodMessageHandler fails when no applicationDestinationPrefixes configured or Rabbit endpoint present [SPR-13704] #18279
• CssLinkResourceTransformer is incompatible with FixedVersionStrategy VersionResourceResolver [SPR-13727] #18300
• SubProtocolWebSocketHandler does not update lastSessionCheckTime [SPR-13745] #18318
• The URL content negotiation "format" parameter values are case sensitive and only lowercase values are accepted [SPR-13747] #18320
• MockHttpServletResponse.setIntHeader throws exception for 'Content-Length' header [SPR-13752] #18325
• Second call to MVC handler method with Optional parameter fails with argument type mismatch [SPR-13755] #18328
• ResourceUrlEncodingFilter improperly encodes URLs on root page [SPR-13757] #18330
• ControllerAdviceBean javadoc is inconsistent with its implementation [SPR-13759] #18332
• allowed-origins are not resolved from properties variables [SPR-13760] #18333
• Inefficient and inconsistent setAllowedOrigins collection types in AbstractSockJsService/OriginHandshakeInterceptor [SPR-13761] #18334
• MessagingMessageListenerAdapter provides a BytesMessage that has already been read [SPR-13769] #18343
• VerifyError when trying to compile constructor invocation with SpEL [SPR-13781] #18355
• Jdbc4SqlXmlHandler should return null as documented (instead of throwing NPE) [SPR-13782] #18356
• VersionResourceResolver's versionStrategyMap should keep insertion order [SPR-13798] #18371

📔 Documentation

• Fix cron trigger example in reference documentation [SPR-10474] #15107
• Revisit remaining XmlBeanFactory usage in reference documentation [SPR-13485] #18064
• Error in RequestEntity's javadoc [SPR-13666] #18241
• Cacheable#key should define the available arguments [SPR-13746] #18319
• Documentation is missing for sendTimeLimit bufferSizeLimit for ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator [SPR-13753] #18326

3.2.16 Release

⭐ New Features

• Skip Content-Disposition header when status != 2xx [SPR-13588] #18165
• Avoid NPE for anonymous SqlParameter in CallMetaDataContext [SPR-13628] #18206
• Content-Disposition with fixed file name "f.txt" causes confusion [SPR-13643] #18220
• Revisit BeansException warn logging after startup failure [SPR-13663] #18238
• BeanFactoryAnnotationUtils.qualifiedBeanOfType should not instantiate all beans of given type before checking qualifier [SPR-13741] #18314
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server driver version 4 and above [SPR-13772] #18346

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Content-Disposition header causes download in browser for Spring Boot Actuator endpoints [SPR-13587] #18164
• AbstractJdbcCall's compiled variable should be declared as volatile [SPR-13617] #18195
• Content-Disposition added for @ResponseBody methods explicitly mapped to ".html" or other extensions [SPR-13629] #18207
• CommonsMultipartFile.getOriginalFilename() does not strip file path properly [SPR-13662] #18237
• AbstractApplicationContext.isRunning throws IllegalStateException when called too early [SPR-13667] #18242
• Jdbc4SqlXmlHandler should return null as documented (instead of throwing NPE) [SPR-13782] #18356

📔 Documentation

• Fix cron trigger example in reference documentation [SPR-10474] #15107

4.2.3 Release

⭐ New Features

• Support for HtmlUnit 2.19 [SPR-13686] #18261
• Implement containsKey for HttpHeaders returned from ServletServerHttpResponse [SPR-13668] #18243
• Revisit BeansException warn logging after startup failure [SPR-13663] #18238
• AbstractAutoProxyCreator.getCacheKey generate lots of String garbage [SPR-13655] #18231
• Consistent method selection for listeners and endpoint mappings [SPR-13654] #18230
• @EventListener does not work if put it at method in class that implements interface [SPR-13650] #18226
• Content-Disposition with fixed file name "f.txt" causes confusion [SPR-13643] #18220
• JCache CacheResultInterceptor does not allow null values to be cached [SPR-13641] #18218
• JmsListenerEndpointRegistry - expose @JmsListener ids [SPR-13633] #18211
• Avoid NPE for anonymous SqlParameter in CallMetaDataContext [SPR-13628] #18206
• UriTemplate should support regex matching with n times {n} pattern [SPR-13627] #18205
• Improve and/or provide control over ETag/If-None-Match logic in HttpEntityMethodProcessor [SPR-13626] #18204
• Performance regression on startup (in particular in AnnotationUtils) [SPR-13621] #18199
• Offer public API to add default collection converters [SPR-13618] #18196
• Support Spring-WS's MessageDispatcherServlet in AbstractDispatcherServletInitializer [SPR-13616] #18194
• MockMvc: afterCompletion is never called on CallableProcessingInterceptor and DeferredResultProcessingInterceptor [SPR-13615] #18193
• Consistent warn logging without stacktrace in Portlet HandlerExceptionResolver [SPR-13611] #18189
• Add selection of compare mode for Json assertion [SPR-13607] #18185
• Inappropriate warn logging in AbstractHandlerExceptionResolver (e.g. for 404 status) [SPR-13596] #18174
• SseEmitter cannot use "send(SseEventBuilder builder)" method with custom SseEventBuilder implementation [SPR-13591] #18169
• Skip Content-Disposition header when status != 2xx [SPR-13588] #18165
• Spring JDBC not correctly processing Postgresql ?-contained operator [SPR-13582] #18159
• Incorrect @JmsListener parameter matching when the listener is a JDK proxy [SPR-13576] #18153
• Make CharacterEncodingFilter more friendly for use in Servlet 3.0+ environments [SPR-13572] #18148
• Compatibility with WebLogic 12.2.1 / Tyrus 1.11 [SPR-13234] #17825
• Unable to use Configuration classes in signed jar due to CGLIB [SPR-12833] #17430

🪲 Bug Fixes

• @EventListener doesn't work when @PreAuthorize is present on any interface method implemented by the same class [SPR-13866] #18439
• EventListener in a Request scoped bean fails context initialization [SPR-13681] #18256
• ScheduledTaskRegistrar's task list getters fail with NPE when no tasks set [SPR-13680] #18255
• CorsConfiguration#combine() should handle correctly * in "other" parameter [SPR-13674] #18249
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter.setContentLength causes an error when rendering a jsp which performs an include: [SPR-13671] #18246
• SimpleJdbcCall does not throw an Exception for a missing stored procedure if the name does not contain "." [SPR-13669] #18244
• AbstractApplicationContext.isRunning throws IllegalStateException when called too early [SPR-13667] #18242
• CommonsMultipartFile.getOriginalFilename() does not strip file path properly [SPR-13662] #18237
• SerializableTypeWrapper.MethodInvokeTypeProvider can be exploited for unsafe deserialization [SPR-13656] #18232
• CommonsMultipartResolver.setMaxUploadSizePerFile() does not work if encoding does not match the default encoding [SPR-13653] #18229
• Setting StandaloneMockMvcBuilder.useSuffixPatternMatch = false does not work [SPR-13637] #18214
• IllegalArgumentException when using AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation [SPR-13634] #18212
• Content-Disposition added for @ResponseBody methods explicitly mapped to ".html" or other extensions [SPR-13629] #18207
• webjars resource handling may run into NPE in JarURLInputStream [SPR-13620] #18198
• UndertowRequestUpgradeStrategy not compatible with WildFly anymore [SPR-13619] #18197
• AbstractJdbcCall's compiled variable should be declared as volatile [SPR-13617] #18195
• Autowiring throws NullPointerException [SPR-13599] #18177
• Content-Disposition header causes download in browser for Spring Boot Actuator endpoints [SPR-13587] #18164
• mvc:view-resolvers does not reliably find declared ContentNegotiationManager [SPR-13559] #18135
• Unable to intercept methods with mixed enum types as varargs [SPR-13328] #17913

📔 Documentation

• Error in RequestEntity's javadoc [SPR-13666] #18241
• Clarify javadoc for ContentNegotiationConfigurer's ignoreAcceptHeader [SPR-13642] #18219
• Explain when to use MediaType constants [SPR-13531] #18108
• Explain when and why use Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter vs MarshallingHttpMessageConverter [SPR-13530] #18107
• Update reference documentation for spring JSP Tag Library [SPR-13520] #18097
• Improve documentation about CookieLocaleResolver vs SessionLocaleResolver [SPR-13505] #18083
• Revisit remaining XmlBeanFactory usage in reference documentation [SPR-13485] #18064
• Fix cron trigger example in reference documentation [SPR-10474] #15107
• Documentation example miss @EnableScheduling [SPR-10448] #15081
• Provide better documentation for support of JSR-330 (@Inject) [SPR-7858] #12515

4.2.2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Add support for configuring ObjectMapper's default typing using Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder [SPR-13569] #18145
• Compatibility with GlassFish 4.1.1 / Tyrus 1.12 [SPR-13566] #18142
• Improve error reporting in StandardScriptEvaluator [SPR-13557] #18133
• Protect against RFD exploits [SPR-13548] #18124
• Provide empty Model to @ExceptionHandler methods [SPR-13546] #18122
• Throw exception with meaningful message if JUnit 4.9+ not present [SPR-13521] #18098
• Improve org.springframework.util.StopWatch [SPR-13509] #18087
• SseEmitter should ignore calls to send after timeout [SPR-13498] #18076
• Make UndertowRequestUpgradeStrategy compatible with Undertow 1.3 [SPR-13494] #18072
• Revise script engine retrieval for better error reporting [SPR-13491] #18069
• Improve error reporting for template rendering in ScriptTemplateView [SPR-13488] #18066
• Consider Nashorn ScriptEngine instance scope in ScriptTemplateView [SPR-13487] #18065
• Origins doesn't anticipate an Origin header with a path [SPR-13478] #18057
• Support @CrossOrigin as a merged composed annotation [SPR-13468] #18047
• Same origin stops working for WebSocket/SockJS once any origin is configured [SPR-13464] #18044
• Add 'null-value' attribute to context:property-placeholder [SPR-13461] #18041
• Expose view url to render function in ScriptTemplateView [SPR-13453] #18033
• SseEmitter does not expose super constructor with timeout value [SPR-13446] #18026
• Read large data using InputStreamResource at ResourceHttpMessageConverter [SPR-13443] #18023
• Support @ResponseStatus as a merged composed annotation [SPR-13441] #18021
• Double slashes (optional Path variable) removed via MockHttpServletRequestBuilder [SPR-13435] #18014
• ClasspathXmlApplicationContext cannot be closed twice [SPR-13425] #18004
• Make UndertowXhrTransport compatible with Undertow 1.3 [SPR-13366] #17950
• Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean.setAutoDetectGettersSetters(boolean) does not affect "is" getters [SPR-13073] #17665
• Support for last-modified resolution in Tomcat's unpackwar=false mode [SPR-13393] #17434
• RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor should turn IOException to HttpMessageNotReadableException [SPR-12745] #17342
• Better handling of illegal locale values in LocaleChangeInterceptor [SPR-9456] #14091
• Add valueSeparator property to context:property-placeholder [SPR-7794] #12450

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Clarify whether HttpInputMessage.getBody() is allowed to return null [SPR-13563] #18139
• Close processing triggered by shutdown hook isn't thread safe [SPR-13556] #18132
• DefaultSubscriptionRegistry loses track of subscribers in its cache [SPR-13555] #18131
• JCacheCache doesn't recognize null values in other JVMs [SPR-13553] #18129
• Modifications to UndertowXhrTransport for Undertow 1.3 introduce breaking changes [SPR-13551] #18127
• Consistently detect spring-beans.dtd reference [SPR-13549] #18125
• Null Pointer when receiving an invalid transport type during SockJS request [SPR-13545] #18121
• PayloadApplicationEvent can't hit cache [SPR-13543] #18119
• MessageHeaders is declared immutable - but writeObject() removes any non-serializable fields [SPR-13541] #18117
• OutOfMemory Exception when publishing User Events [SPR-13540] #18116
• Spring incorrectly interprets a bean to be a spring eventlistener [SPR-13538] #18114
• ClassNotFoundException: org.xnio.StreamConnection in Wildfly 10.0.0.CR2 [SPR-13529] #18106
• EventListenerMethodProcessor unconditionally instantiates certain beans, leading to BeanCreationException during deployment [SPR-13526] #18103
• Not valid processing of 'Origin' http header [SPR-13525] #18102
• HtmlUnitRequestBuilder doesn't handle query parameters without equals sign [SPR-13524] #18101
• ResourceHttpRequestHandler fails with IllegalArgumentException: No matching constant for [0] [SPR-13516] #18093
• YamlProcessor subclasses can no longer instantiate StrictMapAppenderConstructor [SPR-13504] #18082
• ETag/If-None-Match logic in HttpEntityMethodProcessor should not affect methods other than HTTP GET [SPR-13496] #18074
• ConcurrentModificationException when executing AutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean [SPR-13493] #18071
• Potential double invocation of getMissingCache in AbstractCacheManager [SPR-13492] #18070
• AbstractEmbeddedDatabaseConfigurer.shutdown does not close JDBC resources [SPR-13474] #18053
• ConcurrentMapCache.putIfAbsent doesn't support null values [SPR-13458] #18038
• Regression: UrlPathHelper.getLookupPathForRequest(…) returns different results for URIs containing matrix parameters [SPR-13455] #18035
• DeferredResult not thread-safe for isSetOrExpired call [SPR-13451] #18031
• MessagingException should not provide empty description String to NestedRuntimeException [SPR-13447] #18027
• ScriptTemplateView should close the template InputStream [SPR-13445] #18025
• ConcurrentModificationException in SingleConnectionFactory$AggregatedExceptionListener [SPR-13421] #18000
• ServletWebRequest.checkNotModified attempts to call HttpServletResponse.getHeader(String) on Servlet 2.5 [SPR-13420] #17999
• Regression: @RequestBody(required = false) not respected [SPR-13417] #17996
• StompDecoder fails for partial headers containing escape sequence [SPR-13416] #17995
• ConcurrentModificationException when doing a merge on AbstractEnvironment [SPR-13213] #17805
• ConcurrentModificationException in DefaultListableBeanFactory.doGetBeanNamesForType() [SPR-13123] #17714
• Registering two beans at the same time throws ConcurrentModificationException [SPR-12503] #17108

📔 Documentation

• Dispel the myth that Spring MVC Test only works with JUnit [SPR-13552] #18128
• Documentation for Portlet MVC does not refer to Portlet 2.0 spec (JSR-286) [SPR-13513...