v6.2.0-RC1

⭐ New Features

• Update mime.types and remove commented entries #33512
• Provide access to the unexpanded URI template when using MockMvc #33509
• Avoid empty array allocations in AnnotationTypeMapping #33507
• Introduce DynamicPropertyRegistrar as a replacement for DynamicPropertyRegistry bean support #33501
• Avoid storing duplicate empty array in MethodParameter field #33496
• Avoid empty array allocations in ResolvableType #33473
• Update Content-Length when body changed by Interceptor #33459
• UrlHandlerFilter should not strip the trailing slash from root URLs #33444
• Unwrap CGLIB proxy when invoking non-proxied methods in ReflectionTestUtils #33429
• Refactor eTag formatting logic into a static utility method #33412
• Encapsulate ETag comparison logic #33385
• Harmonize Reactor client class names within the http.client package #33382
• Allow multiple listeners on ResponseBodyEmitter #33356
• Invoke init/destroy/SpEL methods via public declaring type whenever possible #33216
• Create WebFlux equivalent filter to handle URLs with trailing slashes #32830
• Provide more ways to stream through ServerResponse for WebMvc functional endpoints #32710

🐞 Bug Fixes

• BeanCurrentlyInCreationException is thrown when multiple threads get a bean from StaticApplicationContext's Bean Factory #33463

📔 Documentation

• Revise reference documentation for Spring JMX annotations #33466
• Add Javadoc since for ReflectionHints.registerForInterfaces() #33458
• Revise AOP proxying section of the reference manual #33455
• Consolidate self injection documentation in the reference manual #33454
• Expand acronyms FQN and FQCN #33452
• Document that WebFlux does not support forward redirects #33441
• Document TaskDecorator usage with TaskExecutors #33438

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to JUnit 5.11 #33395
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.0-M3 #33520
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M6 #33521

❤️ Contributors

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

@hyunmin0317, @imzhoukunqiang, @izeye, @kilink, @quaff, and @tafjwr

v6.1.13

⭐ New Features

• Errors thrown from SmartLifeycle#stop results in (unnecessary) waiting for the shutdown timeout #33442
• Updates to resource handling for functional endpoints #33434
• Stop logging result in WebAsyncManager #33406
• spring native not support method handler with kotlin default value #33384

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Ensure use of specified status code on redirect with Rendering #33498
• Inconsistent handling of X-Forwarded-Prefix in servlet and reactive stack #33465
• ServerHttpObservationFilter does not register against new async operations #33451
• Revert removal of deprecated rawStatusCode methods #33440
• PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver no longer follows symlinks #33424
• Deadlock between SseEmitter and StandardServletAsyncWebRequest when clients disconnect #33421
• RestClient doesn't open a scope for the processing of the request #33397
• WebTestClient leaks when ParameterizedTypeReference is used #33389

📔 Documentation

• Document fixed rate scheduling with CRaC #33490
• Update information in SpEL Evaluation chapter in reference manual #33456
• Stop documenting use of -debug compiler flag in reference manual #33453
• Use discrete headings instead of titled blocks in reference manual #33447
• Fix example for @ImportResource in the reference manual #33446
• Fix a typo in the CDS documentation #33437
• Fix link to chapter introduction #33417
• Improve documentation on reading form data via Servlet request parameters vs @RequestBody #33409

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.25 #33471
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.10 #33518
• Upgrade to Objenesis 3.4 #33526
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.10 #33519

❤️ Contributors

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

@dancer1325, @izeye, and @yfoel

v6.2.0-M7

⭐ New Features

• Improve optional parameter checks for HTTP Interface argument #33339
• Two @Bean methods with the same bean name should consistently throw an exception #33330
• Support static headers for http interface clients #33309
• Add DatabaseClient bind variant for list of positioned parameters #33274
• HandlerMethodValidator should support simple Cross-Parameter constraints #33271
• UserCredentialsConnectionFactoryAdapter should provide credentials to createContext #33270
• Support flexible multi-unit duration format in @DurationFormat #33262
• MockMvc should prepare a FilterRegistration when initializing filters #33252
• Add option to ignore bean registration with AOT #33243
• Support JAXBElement in Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter #33233
• MimeMessageHelper does not set filename on inline MimeBodyPart #33230
• Add handling for AsyncRequestNotUsableException to ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #33225
• Allow formatting of Collection values for @RequestParam with HTTP interface client #33220
• Support rendering stream of fragments #33194
• Allow resolving nested placeholders if value is not String but CharSequence #32876
• Support multiple style of parsing/printing Durations #30396
• Restore support for Freemarker request parameters and taglibs now that it supports Jakarta #30186
• AOT/native support when registering beans with the Kotlin DSL #29555
• Offer a way for MockitoTestExecutionListener to enable strict stubbing #33318
• Provide access to all counters in case of BatchUpdateException with multiple batches #23867
• Low level cache failure for sync/reactive/future Cacheable get is not handled by CacheErrorHandler #21590

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Programmatic NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException in CacheAspectSupport should match message structure #33305
• JdbcClient.MappedQuerySpec::single can return null #33300
• Registration of DynamicPropertyRegistry in a test context has broken native testing #33272
• MapAccessor#canWrite incorrectly returns true for non-Map target #33265
• BeanDefinition processed by AOT does not keep fallback flag #33261
• ImportSelector#getExclusionFilter does not exclude matching candidates with import selector #27080

📔 Documentation

• Document that SpEL expressions using bean references are not compilable #33363
• Remove duplicated "the" in Javadoc #33308
• Update documentation for fragment rendering #33195
• Document ControllerAdviceBean as internal usage #32776

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.0-M2 #33327
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M5 #33328

❤️ Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @benelog, @deblockt, @doljae, @izeye, @quaff, and @zinzoddari

v6.1.12

⭐ New Features

• Efficient handling of conditional HTTP requests #33372
• LocaleEditor cannot parse language tag with script like zh-Hans #33348
• Reinstate qualifier support for legacy JSR-330 @javax.inject.Named annotation #33345
• SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler stops accepting new tasks when isShutdown #33336

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix incorrect weak ETag validation #33374
• Avoid CacheAspectSupport#findInCaches falling through to the reactiveCachingHandler #33371
• ScheduledAnnotationReactiveSupport starts the observation before it is opened #33349
• RestClient observation flags error for UnknownContentTypeException twice #33347
• RestClient instrumentation unnecessarily calls stop on a closed observation #33346
• SimpleEvaluationContext does not enforce read-only semantics #33319
• SpEL wraps primitive array in Object[] when invoking varargs method #33317
• SpEL no longer supports lists for varargs invocations #33315
• SpEL Indexer silently ignores failure to set property as index #33310
• AOT-generated code produces deprecation warnings when using a deprecated class for autowiring #33295
• @Scheduled method in test class not supported anymore #33286
• AOT-generated code produces deprecation warnings when referencing a nested class of a deprecated class #33273
• Jaxb2XmlEncoder does not support JAXBElement subtypes #33258
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter throws a NumberFormatException for responses bigger than 2Gb #33256
• RequestPredicates fail with UnsupportedOperationException with a custom servlet path #33251
• Missing observation for @JmsListener response messages #33221
• ConversionService cannot convert primitive array to Object[] #33212
• Spring coroutines AOP is not compatible with @Cacheable #33210
• PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver#convertClassLoaderURL drops URLStreamHandler in version 6.1.x #33199
• SpEL cannot invoke varargs MethodHandle function with a primitive array #33198
• Trim last allowed origin when parsing comma-delimited string #33181
• Multipart files not deleted after upload is finished with async request #33161
• JaxbContextContainer does not define the ClassLoader to use to retrieve the JAXBContext to use #33158
• Memory Leak in WebFlux application handling HTTP Multipart #33094
• Support invoking bridged suspending functions in AopUtils #33045

📔 Documentation

• Fix typo in the bean validation section of the reference manual #33354
• Fix syntax error in RestClient documentation #33350
• Add Kotlin example for expectAll() #33341
• Javadoc of ReactorResourceFactory#setConnectionProviderSupplier wrongly states it can be ignored #33338
• Improve EnableCaching & CachingConfigurer Javadoc #33288
• Code sample has wrong reference to configurePathMatching #33277
• Document that NoOpResponseErrorHandler is to be used with the RestTemplate #33276
• Stop referring to Oracle STRUCT and ARRAY as they are deprecated #33248
• Update links in reference manual #33245

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.9 #33325
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.9 #33326

❤️ Contributors

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

@GoncaloPT, @crusherd, @genuss, @kashike, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @olbinski, @pcvolkmer, @sheip9, @tafjwr, and @underbell

v6.0.23

⭐ New Features

• Efficient handling of conditional HTTP requests #33379

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix incorrect weak ETag validation #33376
• SimpleEvaluationContext does not enforce read-only semantics #33321
• ConversionService cannot convert primitive array to Object[] #33313
• SpEL Indexer silently ignores failure to set property as index #33311
• Nested bean instance supplier invocation does not retain previous factory method #33185
• Mockito mock falsely initialized as CGLIB proxy with AspectJ aspect #33141
• "file:." cannot be resolved to java.nio.file.Path (and plain "." value resolves to classpath root) #33139
• Trace and Span IDs are no longer propagated RequestBodyAdvice beans #33128
• ConfigurationClassEnhancer does not use correct ClassLoader when called multiple times #33029

📔 Documentation

• Typo in Annotation-driven Listener Endpoints section of Spring Framework documentation #33054
• Container Extension Points section of Spring Framework documentation refers to the wrong property name #33038
• Incorrect constructor details in the javadoc for ApplicationContextEvent #33033

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.22 #33324

v5.3.39

⭐ New Features

• SimpleEvaluationContext should disable array allocation #33386

v5.3.38

⭐ New Features

• Efficient handling of conditional HTTP requests #33378

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix incorrect weak ETag validation #33377
• SimpleEvaluationContext does not enforce read-only semantics #33320
• ConversionService cannot convert primitive array to Object[] #33314
• SpEL Indexer silently ignores failure to set property as index #33312
• Mockito mock falsely initialized as CGLIB proxy with AspectJ aspect #33142
• "file:." cannot be resolved to java.nio.file.Path (and plain "." value resolves to classpath root) #33140

📔 Documentation

• Typo in Annotation-driven Listener Endpoints section of Spring Framework documentation #33052
• Container Extension Points section of Spring Framework documentation refers to the wrong property name #33039
• Incorrect constructor details in the javadoc for ApplicationContextEvent #33034

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.47 #33322

v6.2.0-M6

⭐ New Features

• Initialize RequestPath on demand in AbstractServerHttpRequest #33227
• Add support for making MapAccessor read-only #33222
• DefaultPartHttpMessageReader should not instantiate Reactor Scheduler eagerly #33218
• Change MIME type mapping for JavaScript to text/javascript #33197
• Handle SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor in WebSocketMessageBrokerStats #33104
• Support way to extract ConstraintViolation from HandlerMethodValidationException #33025

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AssertJ support for multipart does not set property content type on the request #33232
• MockMvc builders are not source and binary compatible with previous 6.x generations #33229
• __BeanFactoryRegistrations generated file can be too large with a BeanFactory with lots of bean definitions #33126

❤️ Contributors

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

@quaff

v6.2.0-M5

⭐ New Features

• Harmonize handling of current factory method in SimpleInstantiationStrategy #33192
• Unwrap InvocationTargetException in SpEL's FunctionReference #33174
• Support rendering multiple fragments #33162
• Allow MessageHeaderAccessor to be created with existing headers #33153
• Generalize message conversion for HTTP message content in AssertJ support #33148
• Allow arbitrary packages to be scanned for Reflective usage #33132
• Support external methods referenced by fully-qualified name in @TestBean #33125
• Update Content-Type based on encoding in MVC FreeMarkerView #33119
• Introduce SmartHttpMessageConverter #33118
• Support property placeholders in @Sql script paths #33114
• Reject ModelMap argument types in WebFlux #33109
• Set output_encoding in FreeMarkerView implementations #33106
• Allow encoding to be set with a Charset in FreeMarker support #33102
• Let custom ObjectProvider implementations declare a single method only #33070
• Add support for running assertions on resolved exception in MockMvcTester #33060
• Add dedicated support for printing the MvcResult in MockMvcTester #33059
• Provide a way to determine if a context is in the process of being closed #33058
• MockHttpServletRequestBuilder should merge URI from the parent if necessary #33057
• Fail fast if a @Bean method declares @Autowired as well #33051
• Add dedicated async dispatch support for MockMvcTester #33040
• Add dedicated multipart support for MockMvcTester #33027
• spring-form JSP tags should escape HTML value based on response character encoding #33023
• SimpleClientHttpResponse throws IOException when response body is empty and status code is >= 400 #33020
• MockHttpServletResponse defaults to ISO-8859-1 for JSON while the rest of the framework defaults to UTF-8 #33019
• Propagate context to message converters when streaming with Flux in Spring MVC #32813
• Resolve URI to baseUrl in RestClient #32679
• Constructor data binding support for List, Map and array arguments #32426
• Implement Eclipse Jetty core HTTP handler adapter #32097
• Add better control over generated files registration #31331
• Provide more declarative control over reflection hint registration #29194
• Replace @Nonnull(when = When.MAYBE) by @CheckForNull in @Nullable #27183
• Add JSON support to Protobuf codecs #25457

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AntPathPatternMatcher hardcoded "/" separator in variables matching and comparator #33085
• AOT generates a raw type for a generic type with nested unresolved generics #33069
• Unwrap Kotlin inline value classes return values #33026
• Kotlin Serialization support does not take null-safety into account #33016

📔 Documentation

• Move Testing below other framework concerns in the reference documentation TOC #33083
• Move Servlet HTTP Message Conversion to its own section #33063
• Document AssertJ support for MockMvc #32454

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to HtmlUnit 4.2.0 #33081
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.8.1 #33176
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.0-M1 #33170
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M4 #33171

❤️ Contributors

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

@gregw, @stonio, and @tafjwr

v6.1.11

⭐ New Features

• Ensure varargs component type for MethodHandle is not null in SpEL's ReflectionHelper #33193
• Confusing WebClient exception message in case of Reactor-Netty PrematureCloseException during response #33127
• Include the bean name in the exception when an invalid factoryBeanObjectType attribute is found #33117
• Use error handler for reactive cache aspect #33073
• getTypeForFactoryMethod should catch NoClassDefFoundError #33075

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SpEL cannot invoke varargs MethodHandle function with an array #33191
• SpEL cannot invoke varargs MethodHandle function with zero variable arguments #33190
• Nested bean instance supplier invocation does not retain previous factory method #33180
• DefaultErrorResponseBuilder does not implement headers(Consumer) #33156
• Fix adaptation of violations on Set method parameter #33150
• Web controller call with invalid body resulting in 500 instead of 400 when using kotlinx-serialization #33138
• "file:." cannot be resolved to java.nio.file.Path (and plain "." value resolves to classpath root) #33124
• Mockito mock falsely initialized as CGLIB proxy with AspectJ aspect #33113
• Fix ClassCastException from return value validation with proxy when adaptConstraintViolations=true #33105
• Spring coroutines AOP is not compatible with @Transactional #33095
• ReactorClientHttpConnector creates new HttpClient for every request #33093
• Trace and Span IDs are no longer propagated RequestBodyAdvice beans #33091
• Early LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean initialization fails in case of null bean definition #33082
• ReactorNettyClientRequest.convertException should include original exception if cause is null #33080
• SpEL incorrectly splits string arguments by comma for Object... varargs method #33013
• ProtobufMessageConverter fails to parse JSON payload if byte array is used #27408

📔 Documentation

• Harmonize phrasing in URI Encoding section #33166
• Document that ModelMap is not a supported argument type in WebFlux #33107
• Example in Method Injection section of Spring Framework documentation refers to wrong bean names #33096
• Resource writer doesn't consider subclasses of InputStreamResource for content length bypass #33089
• Improve documentation regarding encoding in FreeMarker support #33071
• Exception for validation failure in WebFlux does not match the documentation #33061

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.24 #33177
• Upgrade to Kotlin Serialization 1.6.3 #33175
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.8 #33168
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.8 #33169

❤️ Contributors

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

@TAKETODAY, @hunhee98, @imvtsl, @snussbaumer, and @zizare