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

3.2.15 Release

⭐ New Features

• Avoid ambiguous property warning for setter methods with multiple parameters [SPR-13349] #17933
• Protect against RFD exploits [SPR-13548] #18124

🪲 Bug Fixes

• ConcurrentModificationException when doing a merge on AbstractEnvironment [SPR-13213] #17805
• DeferredResult not thread-safe for isSetOrExpired call [SPR-13451] #18031
• AbstractEmbeddedDatabaseConfigurer.shutdown does not close JDBC resources [SPR-13474] #18053
• JCacheCache doesn't recognize null values in other JVMs [SPR-13553] #18129
• Clarify whether HttpInputMessage.getBody() is allowed to return null [SPR-13563] #18139

📔 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

4.2.1 Release

⭐ New Features

• AsyncRestTemplate should wrap RuntimeExceptions in ExecutionException [SPR-13413] #17992
• DefaultDeserializer should use ConfigurableObjectInputStream [SPR-13409] #17988
• Support transitive implicit attribute aliases with @AliasFor [SPR-13405] #17985
• SimpleAliasRegistry should detect circles between non-canonical aliases as well [SPR-13390] #17971
• Method lookup doesn't allow for overriding definitions in parent bean [SPR-13388] #17969
• VersionResourceResolver should add ETag headers when resolving resources [SPR-13382] #17963
• Support CALL Statement for SAP HANA [SPR-13381] #17962
• Quote if necessary Etags set with ResponseEntity builder API [SPR-13378] #17960
• Introduce hook for creating a custom BeanPropertyBindingResult in DataBinder [SPR-13373] #17955
• Log connection URL for embedded databases [SPR-13370] #17954
• Add 'preparer-factory' attribute to mvc:tiles-configurer/ [SPR-13363] #17947
• Add Jdk7Module to Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder's well known modules [SPR-13354] #17938
• Introduce JsonPath matchers for empty and non-empty content [SPR-13352] #17936
• Avoid ambiguous property warning for setter methods with multiple parameters [SPR-13349] #17933
• Revisit RedirectView's use of getCurrentWebApplicationContext() [SPR-13346] #17930
• Support implicit attribute aliases with @AliasFor [SPR-13345] #17929
• Introduce SmartMessageConverter interface with conversionHint arguments [SPR-13343] #17927
• StompSubProtocolHandler should send SessionSubscribeEvent after ChannelSecurityInterceptor has validated access rights [SPR-13339] #17924
• Provide a SpringConstraintValidatorFactory variant for use with validation.xml [SPR-13327] #17912
• BeanPropertyRowMapper should log if mapRow doesn't find a PropertyDescriptor [SPR-13323] #17908
• Introduce additional JsonPath matchers in Spring MVC Test [SPR-13320] #17905
• File upload with Servlet 3 multipart requests should support filename with charset encoding (RFC 2231) [SPR-13319] #17904
• Deprecate JdkVersion (for optimistic compatibility with newer JDK generations) [SPR-13312] #17897
• UriComponents should support URI variables that contain a regex [SPR-13311] #17896
• HibernateJpaDialect should warn about connection release mode other than ON_CLOSE (when upgrading from 4.0.x) [SPR-13269] #17860
• Support for JSR-356 WebSockets on WebSphere Liberty Profile [SPR-12367] #16973

🪲 Bug Fixes

• MethodValidationPostProcessor fails for certain generic method signatures when running against Hibernate Validator 5 [SPR-12237] #22186
• Spring response handler returning abstract object drops unique fields from concrete class [SPR-13429] #18008
• Regression: BeanWrapperImpl.getPropertyDescriptor does not allow nested paths [SPR-13403] #17983
• ServletWebRequest.checkNotModified attempts to call HttpServletResponse.getStatus() on Servlet 2.5 [SPR-13396] #17976
• ScopedProxyMode resolution for custom scope meta-annotation not working with @Bean methods (with ASM-based scanning) [SPR-13394] #17974
• MessageHeaders mutable through Map.Entry.setValue() [SPR-13385] #17966
• Cannot set a Content-Type using ScriptTemplateView [SPR-13379] #17961
• Regression: SpringHandlerInstantiator breaks stand-alone support in the MVC Test framework [SPR-13375] #17957
• ResourceUrlProvider should only consider paths and not request parameters [SPR-13374] #17956
• JsonPath assertions fail to differentiate between definite and indefinite results in checks for existence [SPR-13351] #17935
• Default value of CommonsPool2TargetSource#maxWait is incorrect [SPR-13350] #17934
• ResponseBodyEmitter doesn't get headers written immediately [SPR-13341] #17925
• AnnotationUtils fails to synthesize nested maps into annotations [SPR-13338] #17923
• AnnotationUtils fails to throw exception if meta-annotation is not present [SPR-13335] #17921
• Race condition when inbound message handling fails and StompSubProtocolHandler sends ERROR frame [SPR-13326] #17911
• @AliasFor potentially overrides attribute in wrong meta-annotation [SPR-13325] #17910
• SocketUtils does not properly detect available port on localhost [SPR-13321] #17906
• Jackson 2.6: message converter should use type only for collections [SPR-13318] #17903
• Multipart request tests fail when enabling spring security [SPR-13317] #17902
• MockHttpServletRequest returns empty cookies array instead of null if instance is built using MockHttpServletRequestBuilder [SPR-13314] #17899
• AllEncompassingFormHttpMessageConverter prioritizes Jackson 2 XML over JSON [SPR-13309] #17894
• Regression: PropertiesFactoryBean values do not get converted to target type without ConversionService [SPR-13256] #17847

📔 Documentation

• Add a section about HttpMessageConverter customization in the reference documentation [SPR-13411] #17990
• Misleading note on readonly and disabled flags in spring-form.tld [SPR-13397] #17977
• [doc] Document use of @Transactional on controller via @MessageMapping [SPR-13384] #17965
• [doc] Update Javadoc on RestTemplate/AsyncRestTemplate to highlight supported HTTP client libraries [SPR-13313] #17898
• Document selenium-htmlunit-driver dependency [SPR-13299] #17889

4.2 GA Release

⭐ New Features

• ResourceBundleMessageSource performance optimization for getStringOrNull [SPR-13295] #17885
• Unable to override RequestMappingHandlerAdapter#createRequestMappingMethod [SPR-13293] #17883
• Introduce 'value' alias for 'attribute' in @AliasFor [SPR-13289] #17879
• RequestMapping: case insensitive path matching [SPR-13286] #17876
• Support @Rollback at the class level [SPR-13276] #17867
• DispatcherServlet: enable applyDefaultViewName to access multipart request parameters [SPR-13272] #17863
• @MessageMapping with placeholders [SPR-13271] #17862
• InvocableHandlerMethod.getMethodArgumentValues() failure should lead to warn-level logging by default [SPR-13267] #17858
• Jackson @JsonView deserialization support for @MessageMapping payloads [SPR-13265] #17856
• Add a new ResultMatcher for date formats in HTTP headers [SPR-13263] #17854
• RFC 3986: UriComponentsBuilder.fromUriString should support empty URIs [SPR-13257] #17848
• SockJS client does not use HttpHeaders passed by WebSocketConnectionManager for ServerInfo request [SPR-13254] #17845
• AsyncAnnotationBeanPostProcessor could find TaskExecutor by type/name [SPR-13248] #17839
• Make AbstractFallbackTransactionAttributeSource.computeTransactionAttribute(…) protected [SPR-13246] #17837
• Inconsistent JPA behavior using no transaction, propagation SUPPORTS and OpenEntityManager pattern [SPR-13243] #17834
• Transaction propagation SUPPORTS leads to “HHH000326: Cannot join transaction” warning [SPR-13242] #17833
• AllEncompassingFormHttpMessageConverter does not prefer Jackson2 over JAXB for XML marshalling [SPR-13240] #17831
• ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor should fall back to default TaskScheduler by name [SPR-13236] #17827
• Add MockMvc HtmlUnit Integration [SPR-13158] #17749
• Introduce @Commit alias for @Rollback(false) [SPR-13279] #17372
• MockHttpServletResponse.setDateHeader does not perform date formatting [SPR-11912] #16531

🪲 Bug Fixes

• onCompletion SseEmitter callback never gets called [SPR-13292] #17882
• Regression in 4.2: NPE due to WebJarsResourceResolver [SPR-13291] #17881
• MockMvc.perform with the TestContext framework causes additional perform invocations to be "polluted" [SPR-13260] #17851
• Reset Pragma header in WebContentGenerator when caching resources [SPR-13252] #17843
• PropertyOrFieldReference throws ClassCastException [SPR-13247] #17838
• PathResourceResolver should not resolve "/" as a JAR resource [SPR-13241] #17832
• Regression: AnnotationScopeMetadataResolver fails to resolve VaadinView [SPR-13239] #17830
• Regression in ResponseStatusExceptionResolver: setStatus versus sendError [SPR-13226] #17817

📔 Documentation

• Doc: Autowiring in @Configuration classes with post-processor definitions [SPR-13285] #17875
• Document changes about HTTP cache header defaults in migration docs [SPR-13253] #17844
• AOP section referencs outdated resources [SPR-13238] #17829
• Document SpringClassRule and SpringMethodRule in the reference manual [SPR-13037] #17629
• Document AopTestUtils in the reference manual [SPR-13006] #17598
• Document support for generating unique names for embedded databases in the reference manual [SPR-12839] #17437

4.2 RC3 Release

⭐ New Features

• Allow Collection Selection/Projection to be applied to instances of Iterable [SPR-13231] #17822
• SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory: headers with null values should be sent as empty Strings [SPR-13225] #17816
• Allow customizing DispatcherServlet in AbstractDispatcherServletInitializer [SPR-13222] #17813
• JaxbMarshaller scan should skip annotated interfaces [SPR-13221] #17812
• JdbcTemplate.queryForObject(sql, .class) produces TypeMismatchDataAccessException [SPR-13220] #17811
• Support single quotes nested in double quotes in SQL scripts [SPR-13218] #17809
• BeanPropertyRowMapper should always call toLowerCase with US encoding [SPR-13216] #17807
• As of Jackson 2.6 the module class supporting the java.time (java8) package has changed [SPR-13212] #17804
• TomcatInstrumentableClassLoader should support Tomcat 7.0.63+ as well [SPR-13210] #17802
• ResourceBundleThemeSource could expose the property fallbackToSystemLocale of ResourceBundleMessageSource [SPR-13209] #17801
• Make RedirectViews use RESPONSE_STATUS_ATTRIBUTE as a response status if defined [SPR-13208] #17800
• Avoid rejecting same origin requests detected as CORS requests [SPR-13206] #17798
• LinkedMultiValueMap should allow for deep copy of List values [SPR-13201] #17793
• CommonsMultipartResolver should support setFileSizeMax [SPR-13200] #17792
• Support HandlerMethod parameter in @MessageExceptionHandler [SPR-13196] #17788
• Add an Access-Control-Request-Method check for CORS preflight requests [SPR-13193] #17785
• Add a CORS Filter [SPR-13192] #17784
• DelegatingFilterProxy should be aware of FrameworkServlet's WebApplicationContext [SPR-13191] #17783
• Unresolvable class in 'basePackageClasses' annotation attribute results in misleading and hard to diagnose error [SPR-13177] #17769
• Add @EventListener value() support for event class literals [SPR-13156] #17747
• ScriptTemplateView configuration option for JavaScript concurrency issues [SPR-13034] #17626
• Reduce BeanDefinition cloning in AbstractBeanFactory.getMergedBeanDefinition [SPR-12236] #16851
• MultipartFile interface should extend InputStreamSource [SPR-11861] #16480

🪲 Bug Fixes

• SseEmitter is not thread safe [SPR-13224] #17815
• ResponseBodyEmitter skips same messages during initialization [SPR-13223] #17814
• Populate RequestAttributes before invoking FilterChain in MockMvc [SPR-13217] #17808
• WebContentGenerator not backwards compatible [SPR-13207] #17799
• NullPointerException possible in DefaultSubscriptionRegistry [SPR-13204] #17796
• BEFORE_* modes in @DirtiesContext cause context to be closed before test [SPR-13180] #17772
• Binary data in POST multipart request is unmarshalled incorrectly [SPR-13096] #17687

📔 Documentation

• Improve documentation on limitations of Spring MVC Test [SPR-13169] #17760
• Improve DispatcherServlet diagrams [SPR-13120] #17711
• Improve Documentation about when use BindingAwareModelMap and ExtendedModelMap [SPR-12896] #17495
• Document @Bean definitions via default methods [SPR-12882] #17480
• Improve Reference Documentation about Spring WebSocket [SPR-12579] #17180
• Document method visibility rules for @Bean methods [SPR-12345] #16950
• Document autowiring of javax.validation.Validator with use of @EnableWebMvc [SPR-12194] #16808
• Improve documentation for @IfProfileValue precedence [SPR-11902] #16521
• Documentation should mention @Primary [SPR-7301] #11960

4.2 RC2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Avoid reading (empty) RequestBody for HTTP methods that aren't expected to have a body [SPR-13176] #17768
• Introduce logging support for MvcResult details in the Spring MVC Test framework [SPR-13171] #17762
• Print cookies in human-readable form in Spring MVC Test [SPR-13168] #17759
• Allow MVC handler methods to return any CharSequence type as view name [SPR-13165] #17756
• Support inlined statements in @Sql in the TestContext framework [SPR-13159] #17750
• Allow multiple destination per @JmsListener [SPR-13147] #17738
• Add an easy way to configure custom StompSubProtocolErrorHandler for StompSubProtocolHandler. [SPR-13142] #17733
• Support for Jetty 9.3 [SPR-13140] #17731
• Status 406 "Not Accepted" is not appropriate when no message converter can handle return type [SPR-13135] #17726
• Allow body of JmsListener annotated method to define returned Message Destination [SPR-13133] #17724
• Support CompletableFuture<> as return type of @Async methods [SPR-13128] #17719
• HttpComponentsAsyncClientHttpRequestFactory overrides default request config of httpclient [SPR-13125] #17716
• 400 Bad Request for missing URI template variable is incorrect [SPR-13121] #17712
• Introduce general purpose isEmpty() method in ObjectUtils [SPR-13119] #17710
• Add request timeout to ResponseBodyEmitter [SPR-13104] #17695
• Improve circular import exception, in particular for @Import vs import through nesting [SPR-13101] #17692
• Spring does not log deserialization / marshalling errors to the console [SPR-13100] #17691
• Prevent class/classloader retention in GenericConversionService [SPR-13099] #17690
• Reduce memory consumption for caches [SPR-13093] #17684
• Allow annotation to be synthesized from a map with minimal attributes [SPR-13087] #17678
• Transaction Scope [SPR-13085] #17676
• Custom async HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler should work with @ResponseBody [SPR-13083] #17674
• Introduce synthesized annotation alternative to getAnnotationAttributes() in AnnotatedElementUtils [SPR-13082] #17673
• Performing an asyncDispatch with MockMvc fails if DeferredResult is not yet set [SPR-13079] #17670
• AsyncResult implementation does not allow for throwing ExecutionException [SPR-13076] #17668
• Support retrieval of nested annotations in AnnotationAttributes [SPR-13074] #17666
• Document public API in AnnotationAttributes [SPR-13072] #17664
• Improve generics matching of ApplicationEvent subtypes with generic payload parameter [SPR-13069] #17661
• Introduce support for synthesizing AnnotationAttributes into an annotation [SPR-13067] #17659
• CORS global configuration support in XML namespace [SPR-13046] #17638
• Base64 support option without Commons Codec dependency on Java 6/7 [SPR-12938] #17531
• Make @ResponseBody method return type available to message converters [SPR-12811] #17408
• Maintain original ordering of active profiles in the TestContext framework [SPR-12492] #17098
• UriComponentsBuilder#fromHttpRequest should consider RFC-7239 Forwarded headers [SPR-11856] #16475
• Introduce a comprehensive programming model for meta-annotation support [SPR-11511] #16136
• Introduce aliases for 'value' annotation attributes [SPR-11393] #16020

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Type aware canWrite() method should be called for GenericHttpMessageConverter [SPR-13161] #17752
• MimeType must use case insensitive comparisons for Charsets [SPR-13157] #17748
• Stomp version 1.1 and 1.2 allows headers with empty values [SPR-13111] #17702
• Fix combining class and method level @CrossOrigin attributes [SPR-13097] #17688
• CGLIB code generation failure for cross-@Bean FactoryBean call [SPR-13095] #17686
• ServletWebRequest.checkNotModified(…) writes Last-Modified header in invalid format [SPR-13090] #17681
• AnnotationUtils.getRepeatableAnnotation() swallows AnnotationConfigurationException [SPR-13084] #17675
• Server Sent Events use "event" as the type prefix [SPR-13080] #17671
• Nested arrays of annotations are synthesized with wrong component type [SPR-13077] #17669
• AnnotationUtils breaks contract for @Repeatable annotations [SPR-13068] #17660
• XpathResultMatchers ignores character encoding of XML document [SPR-12676] #17275

📔 Documentation

• Documentation definition for ConditionalGenericConverter not the same as the source definition [SPR-13071] #17663
• Add description of Closeable and AutoCloseable in reference document [SPR-13041] #17633
• Update links to new Castor website [SPR-12991] #17583

4.1.7 Release

⭐ New Features

• Avoid reflection for creating StandardServletAsyncWebRequest [SPR-13112] #17703
• Provide means to opt out of default annotation based transaction management by bean [SPR-13109] #17700
• Make PropertyMatches public [SPR-13054] #17646
• mvc:resources does not handles directories well [SPR-12999] #17591
• Same Origin check in both AbstractSockJSService and OriginHandshakeInterceptor is not working with Tyrus client [SPR-12956] #17548
• MethodJmsListenerEndpoint does not set the DestinationResolver on the MessagingMessageListenerAdapter [SPR-12927] #17520
• Use higher log level in InvocableHandlerMethod.getMethodArgumentValues() [SPR-12925] #17518
• Spring logs FactoryBean type check warning in case of factory method with arguments [SPR-12900] #17499
• AnnotatedElementUtils should leniently ignore TypeNotPresentExceptions (just like AnnotationUtils) [SPR-12889] #17487
• Support package private annotations with AnnotationUtils [SPR-12858] #17456
• @Aspect aspect not correctly applied to Java 8 lambda-defined @Beans [SPR-11807] #16427

🪲 Bug Fixes

• YAML Processor leaves StreamDecoder open [SPR-13173] #17765
• GzipResourceResolver has NullPointerException when used with VersionResourceResolver [SPR-13149] #17740
• AntPathMatcher throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException [SPR-13139] #17730
• XML input vulnerability based on DTD declaration [SPR-13136] #17727
• ObjenesisCglibAopProxy's fallback mode triggers duplicate class definition error [SPR-13131] #17722
• FileNotFoundException when implementing a nested interface with groovy closure in a @Component [SPR-13115] #17706
• When use a @args as pointcut, there is case that occur a NPE at calling the unrelated method [SPR-13102] #17693
• Configuration class parsing may trigger NoClassDefFoundError for nested classes [SPR-13091] #17682
• H4 SpringSessionSynchronization#beforeCompletion leaves irreparably broken state if exception thrown in session.disconnect() [SPR-13089] #17680
• Wrong IllegalStateException for @Cacheable without a cache name [SPR-13081] #17672
• DefaultMockMvcBuilder combined with @ContextHierarchy registers wrong context as ROOT [SPR-13075] #17667
• ByteBuffer corrupted by ByteBufferConverter when passed through Spring [SPR-13056] #17648
• Remoting over JMS with receiveTimeout blocks service forever [SPR-13052] #17644
• NPE in PropertyOrFieldReference due to concurrency issue when caching SpelExpression objects [SPR-13023] #17614
• Validation of frame content in org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.frame.SockJsFrame is a NoOp [SPR-13019] #17610
• StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in ResourceUrlEncodingFilter [SPR-13018] #17609
• NPE for alias resolved to null in SimpleAliasRegistry [SPR-13016] #17607
• Commons FileUpload failed after Spring framework upgrade [SPR-13014] #17605
• CustomBooleanEditor may run into NPE when configured with allowEmpty=false [SPR-13010] #17601
• ContentCachingResponseWrapper should NOT sendError() before write body [SPR-13004] #17596
• RequestMapping maps root-controller handler methods with double slashes [SPR-12975] #17566
• PatternMatchUtils infinite loop bug [SPR-12971] #17563
• Regression: DLL handled as classpath resource [SPR-12928] #17521
• ResponseEntity's #equals fails symmetric property. [SPR-12910] #17509
• Async Execution Aspect compiler error when using ListenableFuture [SPR-12895] #17494
• CachingResourceResolver + GzipResourceResolver caches different results depending on what is requested first [SPR-12892] #17491
• Regression in handling of String passed as Types.OTHER to JdbcTemplate [SPR-12890] #17488
• client-library-url in sockjs config is not working [SPR-12874] #17472
• CronSequenceGenerator constructor goes into infinite loop with invalid increments [SPR-12871] #17469
• Incorrect value in InvalidPropertyException message from BeanWrapperImpl.setPropertyValue [SPR-12866] #17464
• Netty4ClientHttpRequest ignores query parameters [SPR-12779] #17377

📔 Documentation

• A wrong description of CGLIB proxying in reference document ? [SPR-13103] #17694
• Sample code of "Jackson JSON Views support" is wrong ? [SPR-12994] #17586

3.2.14 Release

🪲 Bug Fixes

• @Scheduled no longer works in case of multiple proxied target classes implementing the same interface [SPR-12709] #17306
• ServletUriComponentsBuilder#initFromRequest can cause NPE [SPR-12723] #17320
• Deadlock publishing event while creating listener bean [SPR-12739] #17336
• Specified MVC resource at root level not considered "under location" [SPR-12747] #17344
• EncodedResource does not include charset in equals() implementation [SPR-12767] #17364
• StandardMultipartHttpServletRequest.StandardMultipartFile not serializable [SPR-12795] #17392
• Incorrect value in InvalidPropertyException message from BeanWrapperImpl.setPropertyValue [SPR-12866] #17464
• CronSequenceGenerator constructor goes into infinite loop with invalid increments [SPR-12871] #17469
• PatternMatchUtils infinite loop bug [SPR-12971] #17563
• CustomBooleanEditor may run into NPE when configured with allowEmpty=false [SPR-13010] #17601
• NPE for alias resolved to null in SimpleAliasRegistry [SPR-13016] #17607
• Remoting over JMS with receiveTimeout blocks service forever [SPR-13052] #17644
• When use a @args as pointcut, there is case that occur a NPE at calling the unrelated method [SPR-13102] #17693
• XML input vulnerability based on DTD declaration [SPR-13136] #17727
• SpEL chooses wrong method to invoke when varargs method is present [SPR-12803] #17400

📔 Documentation

• Documentation error in "SimpleJdbcInsert" section [SPR-12639] #17240
• Consider rewording ack modes on the listener container javadocs [SPR-12705] #17302

4.2 RC1 Release

⭐ New Features

• @SendTo does not get converter applied when returning Message [SPR-13124] #17715
• Implement hashCode() for synthesized annotations [SPR-13066] #17658
• Implement equals() for synthesized annotations [SPR-13065] #17657
• Implement toString() for synthesized annotations [SPR-13064] #17656
• Introduce putIfAbsent() in AnnotationAttributes [SPR-13060] #17652
• No possible matches for invalid field access in DirectFieldAccessor [SPR-13053] #17645
• mvcUrl is always rendering scheme+host+port, that should be optional only when absolute link is needed [SPR-13045] #17637
• DataBinder should use ConversionService if PropertyEditor cannot produce required type [SPR-13042] #17634
• Ability to prefix each RestTemplate request using some kind of UriPrefixingClientHttpRequestFactory [SPR-13035] #17627
• LocaleChangeInterceptor not protected against CSRF [SPR-13032] #17624
• Document "present" terminology in AnnotationUtils [SPR-13030] #17623
• Provide access to the return type in MethodMetadata [SPR-13024] #17615
• Destroy callback cannot be disabled for AutoCloseable beans [SPR-13022] #17613
• Harmonize default converters with available editors [SPR-13020] #17611
• Avoid eager error message formatting in pre-condition checks [SPR-13007] #17599
• Introduce AopTestUtils in spring-test [SPR-13005] #17597
• Eliminate inspection of meta-annotations on Java annotations [SPR-12989] #17580
• NoHandlerFoundException message should not contain all headers [SPR-12984] #17575
• Automatically register Jackson's JDK 8 module when available [SPR-12983] #17574
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter breaks SockJS and HTTP streaming async responses [SPR-12960] #17552
• Using StandardWebSocketClient it's not possible to customize ClientEndpointConfig before it's passed to WebSocketContainer.connectToServer method [SPR-12955] #17547
• Default RequestPostProcessor should be executed first [SPR-12945] #17538
• Autowiring against a closed ApplicationContext should consistently fail [SPR-12932] #17525
• Spring Performance Optimization, Comparing Classes [SPR-12926] #17519
• Allow for marshalling the messaging Message payload with an user defined marshaller [SPR-12912] #17511
• Configure reply type via JmsListenerContainerFactory [SPR-12911] #17510
• @Configuration enhancer does not throw proper exception in case of mismatched @Bean method [SPR-12905] #17504
• MVC should respect @ResponseStatus on exceptions during mapping [SPR-12903] #17502
• Revisit "ApplicationEventMulticaster not initialized" behavior for early event publication scenarios [SPR-12902] #17501
• Support expression in @SendTo for JMS endpoints [SPR-12899] #17498
• Improve exception message in case of incomplete Caching configuration. [SPR-12898] #17497
• ResourceHttpMessageConverter always returns "application/octet-stream" Content-Type [SPR-12894] #17493
• OkHttp implementations of ClientHttpRequestFactory / AsyncClientHttpRequestFactory [SPR-12893] #17492
• Better exception message for missing @RequestBody method parameter [SPR-12888] #17486
• Support 'selector' header for subscriptions with SimpleBrokerMessageHandler [SPR-12884] #17482
• Support injecting resource as Reader [SPR-12876] #17474
• Improve handling of JDK dynamic proxies in DefaultAopProxyFactory. [SPR-12870] #17468
• CookieGenerator.removeCookie doesnt support secure field [SPR-12865] #17463
• MethodValidationPostProcessor could be more open to extension [SPR-12863] #17461
• Indeterministic UnsatisfiedServletRequestParameterException#paramConditions [SPR-12854] #17452
• Provide Access to Spring WebSocket's Configured PathMatcher [SPR-12845] #17443
• add support of xlsx format to JasperReportsMultiFormatView [SPR-12843] #17441
• HttpSessionHandshakeInterceptor's getSession(request) [SPR-12840] #17438
• Introduce database-name attribute in <jdbc:embedded-database /> [SPR-12835] #17432
• Allow <jdbc:embedded-database /> to be declared as an anonymous bean [SPR-12834] #17431
• HTTP Streaming Directly to the OutputStream [SPR-12831] #17428
• HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory should not depend on CloseableHttpClient [SPR-12826] #17423
• Add setAutoStartup(boolean) to AbstractJmsListenerContainerFactory [SPR-12824] #17421
• Make ReflectionUtils.doWithMethods work on Java 8 default interface methods [SPR-12822] #17419
• On CONNECT and external broker is not available, StompBrokerRelayMessageHandler should return ERROR frame [SPR-12820] #17417
• Support a customizable FieldError creation at SpringValidatorAdapter [SPR-12819] #17416
• Provide an option for trailing slash for AbstractUrlHandlerMapping like RequestMappingHandlerMapping [SPR-12818] #17415
• Support SpEL in bean class names [SPR-12817] #17414
• SubProtocolWebSocketHandler should check is session is open before adding it to its map [SPR-12812] #17409
• SpEL's ReflectiveMethodResolver should use distance computation by default [SPR-12808] #17405
• @Order annotations not consistently honored within DispatcherServlet and other parts of the framework [SPR-12806] #17403
• Make initDirectFieldAccess work with array, List and Map [SPR-12805] #17402
• Support for named parameters in SimpleJdbcCall [SPR-12801] #17398
• Allow use of MvcUriComponentsBuilder independent of Servlet request lifecycle [SPR-12800] #17397
• Support for Transport connectivity check in JavaMailSender [SPR-12799] #17396
• TypeDescriptor should support arbitrary levels of meta-annotations [SPR-12793] #17390
• SpEL: reduce restrictions on compiling mathematical expressions [SPR-12789] #17386
• UrlTag mishandles foreign root context URIs [SPR-12782] #17380
• Re-allow handling empty request body [SPR-12778] [#17376](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-fr...

4.1.6 Release

⭐ New Features

• TcpConnection should extend java.io.Closeable [SPR-12849] #17447
• Ignore null in HeadersBuilder#headers [SPR-12792] #17389
• RestTemplate logging for 404 status code [SPR-12760] #17357
• Support @NumberFormat as a meta-annotation [SPR-12743] #17340

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Exception cache resolver shouldn't be mandatory [SPR-12850] #17448
• CacheLoader is ignored as of Guava 11 [SPR-12842] #17440
• ConcurrentModificationException in ConfigurationClassParser.processDeferredImportSelectors [SPR-12838] #17436
• There is no spring-beans.dtd file inside of the spring-beans-4.1.5.RELEASE jar [SPR-12836] #17433
• Thread contention in HandlerMethod due to unnecessary BeanFactory.getType call [SPR-12832] #17429
• DefaultManagedAwareThreadFactory's non-JNDI fallback leads to StackOverflowError [SPR-12830] #17427
• X-Forwarded-Proto with comma separated list causes incorrect scheme [SPR-12816] #17413
• X-Forwarded-Port with Comma Separated List Not Able to be Parsed in Spring 4.1.x [SPR-12813] #17410
• Not reusable input stream in ContentCachingRequestWrapper [SPR-12810] #17407
• Exception not thrown by OnFailure() when using ListenableFutureCallback [SPR-12797] #17394
• StandardMultipartHttpServletRequest.StandardMultipartFile not serializable [SPR-12795] #17392
• Regression in 4.1: UnsatisfiedDependencyException because a prototype-scoped FactoryBean is unexpectedly instantiated by getTypeForFactoryBean() [SPR-12786] #17383
• ObjectToOptionalConverter wraps a source Optional<?> to the new one [SPR-12785] #17382
• LoadTimeWeavingConfiguration should not rely on private field injection [SPR-12776] #17374
• Regression in 4.1.5: UriComponentsBuilder.fromHttpRequest sets port to 80 i.s.o nothing/443 [SPR-12771] #17368
• GroovyBeanDefinitionReader does not fully support XML config files [SPR-12769] #17366
• XML config isn't fully supported for web integration tests if Groovy is on the classpath [SPR-12768] #17365
• EncodedResource does not include charset in equals() implementation [SPR-12767] #17364
• ScriptUtils and ScriptStatementFailedException confuse lines and statements [SPR-12752] #17349
• Specified MVC resource at root level not considered "under location" [SPR-12747] #17344
• Regression in 4.1.5: Alternative @Bean declarations with same primary bean name do not work anymore [SPR-12744] #17341
• Deadlock publishing event while creating listener bean [SPR-12739] #17336
• MockMvc PrintResultHandler asserts before result is set [SPR-12735] #17332

📔 Documentation

• Consider rewording ack modes on the listener container javadocs [SPR-12705] #17302