v6.2.3

⭐ New Features

• Add form fields to MockMvc Kotlin DSL #34412
• Make ProblemDetail implement Serializable #34409
• Support @MockitoSpyBean at the type level on test classes #34408
• Expose order values of TestExecutionListener implementations as constants #34404
• ContentDisposition should match attributes in a case-insensitive fashion #34383
• Provide access to servletPath in ServletRequestPathUtils #34379
• Use ConversionService to convert POJO to array for SpEL varargs invocations #34371
• Provide a more actionable CGLIB error message with native #34370
• Wrap disconnected client exceptions as AsyncRequestNotUsableException in Servlet container onError callback #34363
• Support RFC 8441 WebSocket upgrade with HTTP/2 CONNECT #34362
• Optimize default property editor allocations for bean instance creation #34361
• Continue with pre-instantiation when current bean is in creation already #34349
• Allow filtering bean instances returned by ObjectProvider#stream() #34318
• GenericConversionService finds wrong converter for partially unresolvable generic types #34298
• Avoid re-creating HandlerMethod unless handler is resolved through the BeanFactory #34277
• UrlResource should leniently handle HTTP endpoints which do not support HEAD #34217
• Add API counterpart for handling Fallback and 'defaultCandidate=false' beans #34203
• Add support for multidimensional arrays #34183
• Add getters to ServerResponseResultHandler #34066
• Improve diagnostics when a Bean Override cannot be selected by type #34006
• Expression performance regression due to missing annotation types on context classes #33948

🐞 Bug Fixes

• PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver failing against non-jar file in classpath #34417
• GenericTypeResolver Since 6.2.0, generics cannot be obtained correctly in multi-layer interface inheritance (possible regression of #24963) #34386
• Test Bean Overrides honor fallback qualifier instead of @Primary semantics #34374
• HTTP interface client raises IllegalArgumentException if query param name contains a colon #34364
• Quartz-style Nth Day of Week cron expressions can overflow to other month #34360
• Component scan fails to find jar entries in WEB-INF/classes with embedded Tomcat #34348
• Check hasNext when when accessing sessionIds from UserDestinationResult #34333
• Property binding to Map that implements Iterable no longer works #34332
• GenericTypeResolver returns EmptyType #34328
• Duplicate BeanOverrideHandler discovered in @Nested test class hierarchy when upgrading to Spring 6.2.2 #34324
• AnnotationBeanNameGenerator issues warning about explicitly aliased value attribute #34317
• Stop assuming that AspectJ Advice has JoinPoint as the first argument #34316
• Constructor binding fails for simple types List/Map/Array and for nested container combinations #34305
• Change in BeanFactoryUtils.beanNamesForTypeIncludingAncestors() Behavior in Spring Framework 6.2.x causing ClassCastExceptions #34300
• Data binding does not filter HTTP headers for constructor binding #34292
• Escaped character in nested placeholder not detected properly and leads to invalid parts #34289
• ReflectJvmMapping.getKotlinFunction returns null for Kotlin properties #34284
• ConfigurationClassEnhancer should explicitly set custom ClassLoader on CGLIB Enhancer (aligned with CglibAopProxy) #34274
• Connection reset exception from RestTemplate call in Spring Web MVC controller is ignored #34264
• AsyncExecution fails to detect the return type of an annotated method from an interface with a generic #33957
• Ensure Locale context is available for WebFlux method validation #33810

📔 Documentation

• Fix reference to ApplicationContext#getAutowireCapableBeanFactory in reference documentation #34400
• Clarify component scanning of abstract classes with @Lookup methods #34367
• Minor update in WebSocket STOMP reference documentation #34353
• Clarify documentation on the usage of RestClient in POST scenarios without response body #34334
• Document limitation around the port of localAddress in StandardWebSocketSession #34304
• Fix Javadoc for field reflection hints #34297
• Improve Javadoc for SpringProperties.getFlag() #34295
• Link to current AspectJ Javadoc #34293
• Update Javadoc for SimpleCommandLinePropertySource #34282
• Update RestClientException Javadoc to refer to RestClient #34270
• Document order values for TestExecutionListener implementations #34265
• Document custom HttpServiceArgumentResolver usage #34227

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.4 #34401
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.3 #34403
• Upgrade to RSocket 1.1.5 #34402

❤️ Contributors

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

@JoshuaChen, @Puppy4C, @anaconda875, @brandenclark, @canattofilipe, @dobrosi, @izeye, @jazdw, @khoutz182, @kwondh5217, @pirocraft, @quaff, @remeio, and @tarekmues