v5.3.29

⭐ New Features

• Avoid illegal reflective access in ContextOverridingClassLoader.isEligibleForOverriding #30868
• Improve diagnostics for CGLIB ClassLoader issues with shared classes in parent ClassLoader #30866
• JdbcTemplate does not call handleWarnings in case of exception #30852
• Tolerate AnnotationUtils.isCandidateClass call with null as annotation type #30843
• Simplify DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.isDependent() #30841
• Provide explicit support for collections, maps, and arrays in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30811
• Extend list of supported types in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30806
• Align ConcurrentMapCacheManager locking behavior with CaffeineCacheManager #30781
• ResolvableType.hasUnresolvableGenerics() should cache its result #30715
• Ensure Spring LogFactory contains all public methods from Apache LogFactory #30711
• Translate SQL Exception with State S0001 and Vendor Code 2628 to a Spring Exception in MSSQL 2019 #30682

🐞 Bug Fixes

• For a prototype bean, if first-time rejected value is null, subsequent value will wrongly be null always #30809
• Revert changes to toString() in FieldError #30800
• Fix log level on error with @TransactionalEventListener #30784
• SerializableTypeWrapper does not consistently catch InvocationTargetException #30767
• NPE in MvcUriComponentsBuilder with no-arg target method on interface #30757
• Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder breaks when modules customizer follows modulesToInstall #30752
• Spring ORM SpringBeanContainer when trying to create a bean fails with not found bean definition, and fallbacks to default hibernate bean creation #30685

📔 Documentation

• ResultSet holdability into the View layer broken by Hibernate 5 #30863
• Clarify ReactiveTransactionManager exception declarations #30819
• Doc: JdbcTransactionManager vs DataSourceTransactionManager #30814

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.34 #30873

v5.2.25.RELEASE

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Reintroduce support for null SpEL expressions #30464
• Make maximum SpEL expression length configurable #30452

v6.1.0-M1

⭐ New Features

• Consistent simple value type check (including UUID treatment for data binding) #30664
• Release shared JMS Connection when message listener container is stopped #30612
• Property-driven onRefresh checkpoint during application context bootstrap #30606
• Support letters other than A-Z in identifiers in SpEL expressions #30580
• Remove System.out calls in PreComputeFieldFeature #30571
• Have the ErrorResponse.Builder take in a custom ProblemDetail instance #30568
• Allow setting the ProblemDetail.type via a MessageSource #30566
• ClientHttpRequestFactory based on Jetty HttpClient #30564
• Remove buffering in ClientHttpRequestFactory implementations #30557
• Support JAXBElement in Jaxb2XmlEncoder #30552
• Disable SpEL selector support in WebSocket messaging by default #30550
• Enforce JPA bootstrap failure for incomplete Hibernate Validator setup #30549
• Support parsing long dates in InstantFormatter #30546
• Port BeanPropertyRowMapper and DataClassRowMapper for r2dbc #30530
• Add non-null precondition checks in DefaultEntityResponseBuilder #30433
• Deprecate spring-context-indexer #30431
• Update RuntimeHintsAgentPlugin to use the native image code path #30422
• HTTP interface client should not have blockingTimeout set and leave it to the underlying client by default #30403
• Improve toString() for Profiles.of() implementation #30374
• Add ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource Resource selection hook #30369
• Optimize DefaultLifecycleProcessor::stopBeans #30361
• Deprecate AutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(Class, int, boolean) for consistent usage of createBean(Class) #30345
• Support setCharacterEncoding(null) in MockHttpServletResponse #30341
• Add support for converting a String to an Instant #30312
• Refine RouterFunctionMapping ordering consistency #30278
• CRaC Resource adapter for bean lifecycle in application context #30242
• Configuration options for virtual threads #30241
• Support for SequencedCollection/Set/Map #30239
• MethodArgumentNotValidException::errorsToStringList should include only the resolved message when MessageSource is used #30198
• Support @XmlSeeAlso in Jaxb2XmlDecoder #30167
• Add SpEL support for registered MethodHandles #30045
• Add test support to record async events, with JUnit Jupiter caveat #30020
• Returning a CompletableFuture.failure() from an async, transactional method should mark the transaction as roll back #30018
• Support @Scheduled on Reactive methods and Kotlin suspending functions #29924
• Compatibility with JVM checkpoint restore (OpenJDK's Project CRaC) #29921
• Validator factory methods with BiConsumer #29890
• Spring MVC and WebFlux method validation support that also adapts ConstraintViolations #29825
• Remove LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer #29559
• Avoid use of java.net.URL constructors #29481
• Creating relative resource for URL resource should create relative Resource even if relative path has URL in it #28522
• ModelAttributeMethodArgumentResolver does not support custom field binding for immutable objects #28284
• ConcurrentTaskScheduler and ConcurrentTaskExecutor can create an executor with no way to shut it down #27914
• R2DBC ConnectionFactory bean .close() method should be called/subscribed when available #26991
• org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ReactiveTypeHandler does not handle vendor-specific application/x-ndjson media types #26817
• Improve the experience of handling validation errors in controller methods #26219
• Compatibility with virtual threads (OpenJDK's Project Loom) #23443
• Avoid repeated attempts to load a failing ApplicationContext in the TestContext framework [SPR-9548] #14182

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Retain profiles used when running AOT #30421
• Automatic context propagation stops working after an error occurs #30013

📔 Documentation

• Introduce JVM checkpoint/restore support documentation #30647
• Fix link in Javadoc of PassThroughFilterChain #30365
• Clarify behavior of the Elvis SpEL operator in documentation #30352
• Fix link to releases feed #30340

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.15 #30665
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.8 #29754
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.7 #30514
• Upgrade to Kotlin Serialization 1.5 #30515
• Upgrade to SnakeYAML 2.0 #30048

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@OlgaMaciaszek, @RemusRD, @aooohan, @asomov, @izeye, @jstansel, @kzander91, @luohongtu, @making, @rwinch, and @srivatsa-cfp

v6.0.10

⭐ New Features

• ClassLoader can be null in DeserializingConverter and should be annotated with @Nullable #30670
• Introduce TestExecutionListener for Micrometer's ObservationRegistry in the TestContext framework #30658
• Add missing hint for ResourceEditor #30628
• Add missing hint for converting String to URI #30627
• Redesign inner Pointcut implementations as standalone classes #30621
• Add missing @Nullable in DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory #30620
• Handle custom JMS acknowledgment modes as client acknowledge #30619
• Declare Advisor#isPerInstance() as default method #30614
• Improve error message for unsupported character in SpEL expression #30602
• Multipart data is always read irrelevant of handler response #30590
• Performance optimization in AbstractBeanFactoryBasedTargetSource.hashCode() #30576
• Log a warning when commons-logging is in the classpath #30575
• Always use MethodArgumentNotValidException(MethodParameter, BindingResult) constructor #30558
• Remove non-empty filename check in ContentDisposition builder #30537
• Add missing EntityManagerFactory hints for SharedEntityManagerCreator #30523
• Disable Hibernate reflection optimizer with native #30521
• Introduce a method in MockHttpServletRequestBuilder to set remote address #30497
• Skip class transformer in PersistenceUnitInfoDescriptor for native images #30492
• @Bean 'lite' mode not supported if @Bean methods are not declared locally #30449
• Align HibernateJpaVendorAdapter with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #30288
• Add nested propagation support to R2dbcTransactionManager #30134

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Cron expression scheduling might be triggered 1 millisecond earlier #30666
• Change of behaviour for UUID in bean validation output in v5.3.27 #30661
• Test context cache stats are not logged when ApplicationContext fails to load #30635
• Inconsistent ProxyCallbackFilter#equals/hashCode methods in CglibAopProxy #30615
• SpEL's CompoundExpression.toStringAST() incorrectly includes . for indexed properties #30610
• NPE in ReactiveTransactionSupport.unwrapIfResourceCleanupFailure #30597
• CollectionFactory.createMap(HashMap.class, 0) now returns a LinkedHashMap rather than a HashMap #30596
• ThreadLocalTargetSource does not include actual target bean name in NamedThreadLocal #30581
• ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter inconsistently publishes events from CompletableFuture #30578
• Unsupported SQL type: TIMESTAMP_WITH_TIMEZONE when using OffsetDateTime with MySQL #30556
• SpringBeanContainer not called with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #30545
• WebFlux returns 406 instead of RFC 7807 response for subtype of ProblemDetail #30533
• HTTP Interface client cannot send URI query parameter with multipart request #30520
• Transaction isolation level not working with R2dbcTransactionManager #30508
• Support for AOT processing with GraalVM tracing agent is not consistent #30511
• For @Bean method that returns null, @Autowired injects NullBean instead of null for cached arguments #30485
• MediaType property binding issue in native builds #30491
• InjectionMetadata AOT contributions do not check for existing property value #30476
• Spring Framework 6.0.8 appears to cause issues in OSGi environment #30389
• Empty @RequestMapping method should match both "" and "/" consistently #30293
• EclipseLinkJpaDialect: Unexpected default isolation levels #29997
• Memory leak with CglibAopProxy$ProxyCallbackFilter #26266

📔 Documentation

• Fix markup issue in Javadoc of QuartzCronField #30646
• Document @DirtiesContext semantics when declared at the class level and method level #30623
• Add missing Javadoc for RegisteredBean.resolveAutowiredArgument() #30609
• Fix invalid link in transaction resources #30570
• FileSystemUtils::deleteRecursively Javadoc refers to File instead of Path #30554
• Improve Javadoc for ExchangeFilterFunction #30543
• Update Javadoc and reference doc for WebMvcConfigurer to mention Boot's HttpMessageConverters #30538
• Add Javadoc since to InjectedElement.shouldInject() #30512
• Fix wording in r2dbc Statement Filters section of ref docs #30482
• Typo in Spring official documentation #30473
• Link for @javax.annotation.Nonnull is wrong in Javadoc for Spring's @NonNull #30455
• Improve how the build deals with javadoc invalid references #30428
• Docs: Remove duplicate in SpEL feature list #30404
• Document which @Scheduled attributes support SpEL expressions #29290

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to micrometer-bom 1.10.8 and context-propagation 1.0.3 #30657
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.8 #30655

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Foolkin, @anyuruf, @galingerv, @izeye, @jmewes, @kihyuk-sung, @leewin12, @marcingrzejszczak, @rweisleder, @rwinch, @scordio, @ssang1105, and @vpavic

v5.3.28

⭐ New Features

• ClassLoader can be null in DeserializingConverter and should be annotated with @Nullable #30672
• Performance optimization in AbstractBeanFactoryBasedTargetSource.hashCode() #30585
• Consistent support for MultiValueMap and common Map implementations in CollectionFactory #30441
• Reject null and empty SpEL expressions #30373
• Introduce Environment.matchesProfiles() for profile expressions #30226

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Change of behaviour for UUID in bean validation output in v5.3.27 #30662
• Spring Framework 5.3.27 appears to cause issues in OSGi environment #30637
• Inconsistent ProxyCallbackFilter#equals/hashCode methods in CglibAopProxy #30616
• EclipseLinkJpaDialect: Unexpected default isolation levels #30589
• ThreadLocalTargetSource does not include actual target bean name in NamedThreadLocal #30586
• ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter inconsistently publishes events from CompletableFuture #30584
• For @Bean method that returns null, @Autowired injects NullBean instead of null for cached arguments #30551
• Make maximum SpEL expression length configurable #30446
• Respect TaskDecorator configuration on DefaultManagedTaskExecutor #30443

📔 Documentation

• Document which @Scheduled attributes support SpEL expressions #30642
• FileSystemUtils::deleteRecursively Javadoc refers to File instead of Path #30555

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.33 #30656

v6.0.9

⭐ New Features

• Consistent support for MultiValueMap and common Map implementations in CollectionFactory #30440
• Introduce internal constants for implicit bounds in TypeUtils #30423
• Update major/minor version properties in MockServletContext #30395
• Reject null and empty SpEL expressions #30371
• Support Test AOT processing with GraalVM tracing agent and Native Build Tools #30281
• Introduce Environment.matchesProfiles() for profile expressions #30206
• Optimize MultiValueMap iteration operations #29972

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Respect TaskDecorator configuration on DefaultManagedTaskExecutor #30442
• Qualifiers registered programmatically are not supported by AOT #30410
• Support for InjectionPoint in bean factory methods when using AOT #30401
• Bean methods with generic array/varargs parameters break native compilation #30407
• ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter supports non-matching generic events #30399
• Processing several @PersistenceContext injection points on the same class with AOT generates code that does not compile #30437
• Make maximum SpEL expression length configurable #30380
• Record beans do not compile to native images #30383
• Missing resource hint for @PropertySource#value #30376
• ApplicationEventPublisher - PayloadApplicationEvent not received by EventListener if event fired from child context #30360
• StringDecoder.decode() should release chunks on cancellation #30299
• Quote '?' in Quoted Printable filename #30252
• Missing reflection hint for custom PropertySourceFactory in native image #30175
• Aot generated sources fail to compile with 'File name too long' error #29846

📔 Documentation

• Update package-info for CGLIB fork #30461
• Clarify differences between GenericBeanDefinition and RootBeanDefinition #30444
• Document how to configure FactoryBean with a configurable target with AOT #30434
• Add Antora docs-build branch #30415
• Switch the reference documentation to Antora #30414
• @ResponseStatus documentation incorrect #30305

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.7 #30451
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.7 #30450

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@divcon, @izeye, @luozhenyu, @rwinch, @sigee, and @yuzawa-san

v6.0.8

⭐ New Features

• Disable variable assignment in SimpleEvaluationContext #30326
• Limit SpEL expression length #30325
• Limit string concatenation in SpEL expressions #30324
• Introduce StringUtils.truncate() #30290
• Introduce ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30286
• Introduce assertions against Cookie attributes in CookieResultMatchers for MockMvc #30285
• Polishing #30267
• Support SameSite cookie attribute in MockMvcHttpConnector #30264
• Update MockCookie to make use of Servlet 6.0 APIs and semantics for "attributes" #30263
• Refine initRequestBuilder in DefaultWebClient #30254
• HttpServerErrorException contains not-serializable field of type DefaultResponseErrorHandler #30224
• Add class hints for Jackson annotations on fields and methods #30208
• Add HttpMethod reflection hint to ObjectToObjectConverterRuntimeHints #30201
• Improve performance of canRead() in HttpMessageReader's #30192
• Optimize array creation in SpEL ConstructorReference #30189
• ConstructorResolver error hints about mixing indexed and named args #30169
• Replace Collections.unmodifiableList(new ArrayList(..)) with List.copyOf() #30166
• Add assert null validations for DefaultServerResponseBuilder #30157
• Use InputStream.readAllBytes() in FileCopyUtils.copyToByteArray() #30155
• Cache ServerHttpRequest::getMethod in AbstractServerHttpRequest #30139
• Use String.equals() in LiteralPathElement #30138
• Optimize some iterations in BodyExtractor and BodyInserter #30136
• Add a couple missing java.time types to StatementCreatorUtils #30123
• WebClient observations should not record CANCEL signals as aborted if response was received #30070
• Destroy method not found in native image if concrete bean type is not exposed #29545
• Contribute init/destroy lifecycle introspection hints for registered beans #29246

🐞 Bug Fixes

• NPE thrown for nonexistent default-destroy-method in XML config #30301
• Fix comparison of title in equals() and hashCode() of ProblemDetail #30294
• SSE breaks with indenting serializer in WebMvc.fn #30277
• @HttpExchange interface does not resolve return type correctly while using with suspending methods #30266
• Increase max regex length in SpEL expressions #30265
• Missing response information from client observation context when filter functions fail #30247
• NullPointerException on timeout in HttpComponentsClientHttpConnector when using Apache HttpComponents #30245
• Wrong MockRestRequestMatchers.header() method in spring-test being invoked (JDK issue?) #30220
• Refine generic type management in AbstractMessageWriterResultHandler #30214
• MvcUriComponentsBuilder.fromMethodCall breaks for controller with CharSequence return type #30210
• Encode IPV6 Zone IDs (%) in ReactorServerHttpRequest #30188
• Handle all exceptions for stored proc output param retrieval in SharedEntityManagerCreator #30161
• Fix IllegalArgumentException that prevents STOMP DISCONNECT from reaching the client #30120
• TypeNotPresentException: org/springframework/cglib/proxy/NoOp not present on Java 17 #30115

📔 Documentation

• Add since tags to sameSite() and attribute() in CookieResultMatchersDsl #30308
• Fix incorrect jakarta.inject artifact version #30270
• Fix @PathVariable reference documentation code snippets #30243
• Use diamond operator in examples in reference manual #30204
• Fix example in Javadoc for @EnableWebSocket #30183
• Fix anchor in link to "Web on Reactive Stack" chapter #30158
• Documentation for Vavr's Try method to trigger transaction rollbacks #30108
• Document that WebClient defaultStatusHandler do not apply to exchange* methods #30059

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.6 #30317
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.6 #30316

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@1993heqiang, @TAKETODAY, @ZouHongxue, @alexjansons, @divcon, @edyda99, @filipblondeel, @ghostg00, @giuseppemilicia, @izeye, @justin-tay, @krzyk, @kyuarl21, @quaff, @shitian9, @simonbasle, @srivatsa-cfp, @ssang1105, @stsypanov, @wizard4wu, and @yuzawa-san

v5.3.27

⭐ New Features

• Limit string concatenation in SpEL expressions #30331
• Limit SpEL expression length #30329
• Disable variable assignment in SimpleEvaluationContext #30327
• Introduce StringUtils.truncate() #30291
• Introduce ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30287
• Make HttpComponentsHeadersAdapter#getFirst nullable #30269

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix regression in ReactorServerHttpRequest related to IPV6 Zone id with "%" #30314
• SSE breaks with indenting serializer in WebMvc.fn #30302
• Increase max regex length in SpEL expressions #30298
• NullPointerException on timeout in HttpComponentsClientHttpConnector when using Apache HttpComponents #30246
• Wrong MockRestRequestMatchers.header() method in spring-test being invoked (JDK issue?) #30235
• TypeNotPresentException: org/springframework/cglib/proxy/NoOp not present on Java 17 #30228
• Refine generic type management in AbstractMessageWriterResultHandler #30215
• MvcUriComponentsBuilder.fromMethodCall breaks for controller with CharSequence return type #30212
• Handle all exceptions for stored proc output param retrieval in SharedEntityManagerCreator #30164

📔 Documentation

• Fix @PathVariable reference documentation code snippets #30258
• Fix example in Javadoc for @EnableWebSocket #30187
• Fix anchor in link to "Web on Reactive Stack" chapter #30163

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.31 #30315

v5.2.24.RELEASE

⭐ New Features

• Limit string concatenation in SpEL expressions #30332
• Limit SpEL expression length #30330
• Disable variable assignment in SimpleEvaluationContext #30328

v6.0.7

⭐ New Features

• Improve diagnostics in SpEL for matches operator #30144
• Improve diagnostics in SpEL for repeated text #30142
• Increase scope of regex pattern cache for the SpEL matches operator #30140
• Minor updates in HandlerMappingIntrospector #30127
• Skip parameter name resolution when not needed in AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory #30103
• Remove extra copy of headers/cookies in WebClient #30092
• Assert non-null arguments in DefaultServerRequestBuilder methods #30046
• Jetty 12 support in WebFlux #29575

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Gradle task processAot fails when Bean Validation API present but no provider found #30130
• ContentDisposition::parse does not support Windows paths #30111
• BindException raised instead of MethodArgumentNotValidException subclass #30100
• Ensure reactive transaction rollback on commit error #30096
• CaffeineCacheManager getCache method cause thread block #30066
• RequestedContentTypeResolver does not ignore quality factor when filtering */* media types #29915
• @Autowired/@Value does not work on inner bean in native #29803
• Avoid rollback after a commit failure in TransactionalOperator #27572
• SpEL: cannot call methods declared in java.lang.Object on a JDK proxy #25316

📔 Documentation

• Add anchor rewrites in the reference documentation #30132
• Fix minor spacings in webflux docs #30078
• Add a list of observations produced by Spring Framework #30060

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.5 #30133

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@EnricSala, @MrCoffee77, @abelsromero, @edyda99, @liupeng12345, @srivatsa-cfp, and @yuzawa-san