v6.2.0-M4

⭐ New Features

• Add support for converting the whole JSON document without using JSONPath #33018
• Support Protobuf 4.x #33011
• Do not swallow exceptions on failing to release a savepoint #32992
• Being able to provide extended timeouts for specific phases in the DefaultLifecycleProcessor #32985
• Allow json content to be converted using AssertJ's AssertFactory #32953
• Add support for BeanPostProcessor defined in Kotlin companion object #32946
• Support @TestBean factory methods defined in interfaces #32943
• Add a way to set the timeout to reactive jdk client #32941
• Revise convention-based semantics for @TestBean factory methods #32940
• Support field name as fallback qualifier for @TestBean, MockitoBean, and MockitoSpyBean #32939
• Use getMessageSource internally in RequestContext #32926
• MockMvc no longer needs methods that take a String httpMethod for custom methods #32914
• Allow MockMvcTester to prepare the query without the need of static imports #32913
• Rework Bean Overriding feature to better behave with TCF Context Caching #32884
• Introduce API to initialize BeanFactory before singleton instantiation #32836
• Introduce static MultiValueMap factory methods #32832
• Make use of JSONAssert in public API optional #32791
• Refine exception handling in AOT process to provide additional context #32777
• Handle ResponseStatusException thrown by MVC functional endpoints #32689
• Support data binding from request headers #32676
• Ignore trailing semicolons when parsing Accept-Language header #32259
• Introduce request attributes in RestClient #32027
• Make WebSocketMessageBrokerStats optionally export stats to micrometer #31604
• Add Partitioned cookie attribute support for reactive servers #31454
• Add execution metadata to scheduled tasks #24560

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Exception that prevents component scan with REGISTER_BEAN conditions should provide the affected configuration class #32998
• Bean override with REPLACE_OR_CREATE_DEFINITION and byType lookup fails if no match is found #32990
• Bean override factory post processing doesn't work with FactoryBean #32971
• @TestBean factory method not found in multi-level @Nested hierarchy #32951
• Support queries in opaque URLs #32920
• AbstractJsonContentAssert should allow satistfies to run on the json content, not the raw string #32894
• Content negotiation for exception handling fails with WebFlux #32878

📔 Documentation

• Fix typo in WebTestClient expectedXml #32969

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.1 #33000
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M3 #33006

❤️ Contributors

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

@AlexejTimonin, @andreblanke, @ccorbacho, @earlgrey02, @izeye, @m4tt30c91, and @schnapster

v6.1.9

⭐ New Features

• CRaC: ignore checkpointOnRefresh afterRestore #32978
• Add missing hints for Hibernate @TenantId #32967
• AnnotationUtils performance degrades with deep stacks #32921
• Missing hints for Hibernate generators #32842
• AbstractAutoProxyCreator#determineBeanType can trigger bean initialization at build time for aspects implementing Ordered #32230

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Behaviour change in ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor: canceling scheduled tasks on ContextClosedEvent v6.0 -> v6.1 #33009
• ContentCachingRequestWrapper may allocate too much memory #32987
• Support canEncode() for JAXBElement in Jaxb2XmlEncoder #32977
• AspectJ CTW aspects executed twice #32970
• @Valid annotations on container elements for handler argument validation not supported #32964
• Add support for double backslashes to StringUtils#cleanPath #32962
• @CacheEvict condition uses wrapper comparison instead of actual objects #32960
• ConcurrentHashMap.computeIfAbsent used in AdvisedSupport can cause virtual thread pinning #32958
• Exception mapping does not work as expected when plugging in ReactorNettyClientRequestFactory into RestTemplate and RestClient #32952
• ReactorResourceFactory not working with CRaC onRefresh checkpoint #32945
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into an array or list with an Integer #32908
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into a Map with a primitive #32903
• BeanUtils.copyProperties no longer copies generic type properties from a base class that has been enhanced #32888
• Application not starting with @EnableTransactionManagement(mode = AdviceMode.ASPECTJ) #32882
• ReactorNettyClientResponse should not throw exception if no body is available #32805
• Observation in ServerHttpObservationFilter is never stopped for asynchronous requests #32730

📔 Documentation

• Fix typo in the Simple Broker section of the reference documentation #32993
• Remove outdated copyright from index.adoc #32983
• Use HttpStatusCode consistently in reference guide #32966
• Entity name in MappingSqlQuery example of reference guide is wrong #32957
• Fix RegisterReflectionForBinding Javadoc #32947
• Reference documentation sample for MethodValidationPostProcessor is missing a static keyword #32929
• Fix typo in Jakarta validation documentation #32928
• Refine KotlinDetector.isKotlinType documentation for Kotlin 2.x lambdas #32905
• Complete Kotlin example for HTTP message codecs in reference doc #32877
• Use Threadlocal.remove() instead of .set(null) in documentation #32874
• Unexpected bean override / inject behavior #32825
• Document why complex object structure are not supported as paremeters or properties by AOT #32273

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.7 #33001
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.7 #33007

❤️ Contributors

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

@Attacktive, @Seungpang, @deblockt, @hlmg, @ozooxo, @soglad, and @ypyf

v6.0.22

⭐ New Features

• AnnotationUtils performance degrades with deep stacks #32922

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Observation in ServerHttpObservationFilter is never stopped for asynchronous requests #32986
• AspectJ CTW aspects executed twice #32973
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into a Map with a primitive #32912
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into an array or list with an Integer #32910
• Application not starting with @EnableTransactionManagement(mode = AdviceMode.ASPECTJ) #32883

📔 Documentation

• Remove outdated copyright from index.adoc #32984

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.20 #33008

v5.3.37

⭐ New Features

• AnnotationUtils performance degrades with deep stacks #32923

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AspectJ CTW aspects executed twice #32974
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into a Map with a primitive #32911
• SpEL compilation fails when indexing into an array or list with an Integer #32909
• Application not starting with @EnableTransactionManagement(mode = AdviceMode.ASPECTJ) #32885

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.45 #33010

v6.2.0-M3

⭐ New Features

• Lazily register DynamicValuesPropertySource in the TestContext framework #32871
• Introduce getRequest and getResponse on MvcTestResult #32846
• Add support for qualifiers in test bean overriding and consider improving by-type matching #32822
• Support Content Negotiation and view rendering in ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #31936

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Change default phase for STOMP message handling components to be ahead of Boot's WebServerStartStopLifecycle default phase #27519

v6.1.8

⭐ New Features

• Avoid creation of SAXParserFactory for every read operation in Jaxb2Marshaller and co #32851
• Suppress deprecation warning for AOT-generated code that refers to a deprecated bean type #32850

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Overridden aspect method runs twice #32865
• @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE\_TIME) cannot convert UTC without milliseconds to java.util.Date #32856
• Spring AOP fails against registered @Configurable aspect #32838
• MockHttpServletRequest should not use a shared reader when no content is available #32820

📔 Documentation

• Modernize Antora Build #32864
• Modernize Antora Build #32863
• Refine CDS documentation #32843
• Revisit validation documentation to better explain when method validation is invoked #32807

❤️ Contributors

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

@rwinch

v6.0.21

⭐ New Features

• Avoid creation of SAXParserFactory for every read operation in Jaxb2Marshaller and co #32855

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Overridden aspect method runs twice #32867
• @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE\_TIME) cannot convert UTC without milliseconds to java.util.Date #32859
• MockHttpServletRequest should not use a shared reader when no content is available #32848
• Spring AOP fails against registered @Configurable aspect #32839

v5.3.36

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Overridden aspect method runs twice #32868
• @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE\_TIME) cannot convert UTC without milliseconds to java.util.Date #32860
• Spring AOP fails against registered @Configurable aspect #32840

v6.2.0-M2

⭐ New Features

• Make it easier to register reflection hints on interface hierarchies #32824
• Support varargs invocations in SpEL for varargs array subtype in compiled expressions #32804
• Align StandaloneMockMvcBuilder with trailing slash defaults #32796
• Use lambda expressions consistently #32765
• Bean overriding in tests should use by-type semantic if no name is specified #32761
• Add ServerRequest.pathVariableOrNull Kotlin extension #32738
• Throw an exception for suspending factory methods #32719
• Introduce ReflectiveIndexAccessor convenience class in SpEL #32714
• Add BodyInserters.fromValue(T, ParameterizedTypeReference<T>) and related APIs #32713
• Rename AssertableMockMvc to MvcTester and review assertions structure #32712
• Introduce generateCodeForArgument() in CodeFlow #32708
• Make SpelNode compilation aware #32707
• Add a requiredBody() extension to RestClient.ResponseSpec #32703
• Add IndexAccessor support to SpEL's SimpleEvaluationContext #32702
• Support compilation of array and list indexing with Integer in SpEL #32694
• Avoid unnecessary compilation attempts in SpEL's Indexer #32677
• Adds support for qualifying columns with table. #32653
• Omit empty resource description in DeprecatedBeanWarner's log message #32647
• Introduce getName() in SpEL's BeanReference #32640
• Validate that private JUnit Jupiter lifecycle methods are not annotated with @Autowired #32627
• Ensure removal of Content-Type header if body Publisher is empty #32622
• Introduce CompilableIndexAccessor SPI in SpEL #32613
• AbstractJackson2Decoder doesn't support decoding NDJSON arrays into Flux #32579
• Handle DataBufferLimitException as HTTP 413 responses #32558
• Introduce URL parser based on algorithm provided in Living URL standard #32513
• JettyClientHttpRequestFactory should set request/response timeout #32330
• Remove Hibernate substitutions and deprecated properties usage #32314
• Register DynamicPropertyRegistry as a singleton bean in a test's ApplicationContext #32271
• Allow for AbstractUrlHandlerMapping to add/remove handlers at runtime #32064
• Make it possible for Spring Security to align with Spring MVC without HandlerMappingIntrospector #31823
• Create Filter to handle URLs with trailing slashes #31366
• Add testing support for WebMvc.fn #30477
• Use URL and HTTP method in DefaultResponseErrorHandler #28958
• CacheAspectSupport initialization failure should throw dedicated exceptions, rather than IllegalStateException #22442
• Clear AspectJExpressionPointcut cache when it is no longer used #12334

🐞 Bug Fixes

• MediaTypeAssert risk false negative with isNotEqual assertion #32756
• IndexAccessor cannot support custom Collection target type #32736
• Custom IndexAccessor cannot support String index type #32706
• HttpHeaders should reject negative ContentLength values #32660

📔 Documentation

• Improve wording in Spring Framework Overview documentation #32829
• Clarify supported targets for annotations in the TestContext framework #32772
• Modernize the lazy-initialized beans refdoc section #32767
• Document SpEL IndexAccessor support in the reference manual #32735
• Use lowercase package name in code snippets #32734
• Fix class name typo in reference documentation #32664
• Introduce configuration code includes and tabs in the Integration section #32600
• Document bean override support in the TestContext framework in the reference manual #32490

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to HtmlUnit 4.1.0 #32740
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.0 #32811
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M2 #32785
• Upgrade to webjars-locator-lite 1.0.0 #32564

❤️ Contributors

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

@Donghh0221, @GeorgePap-719, @LeMikaelF, @MichaelKunze, @NadChel, @SharadK10, @attermann, @awmeinema, @dukbong, @earlgrey02, @evan-mc, @jerzykrlk, @laterlaugh, @mysend12, @onjik, and @quaff

v6.1.7

⭐ New Features

• ResponseEntity is not reliably closed with InputStreamResource #32802
• Accept ajc-compiled @Aspect classes for Spring AOP proxy usage #32793
• Failure to process a bean definition ahead-of-time with an instance supplier should provide more contextual information #32775
• Provide methods to unambiguously send form data with MockMvc #32757
• Introduce NoOp implementation for ResponseErrorHandler #32750
• Support varargs invocations in SpEL for varargs array subtype #32704
• StreamUtils.copyRange overreads source stream in some cases #32695
• Modify error message when timeout is less than TIMEOUT_DEFAULT #32635
• Jetty HttpConnections not closed with SSE on Jetty 12.0.7+ when clients close the connection #32629
• Prevent duplicate subscription ID's in destinationCache of DefaultSubscriptionRegistry #32625
• When retrieval of a LoadTimeWeaverAware bean fails the resulting exception message may not indicate why it was being created #32470

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Do not send Cookie header in reactive JdkClientHttpRequest if no cookies added #32799
• Inconsistent use of cleaned URLs in PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver #32828
• DeferredQueryInvocationHandler fails to unwrap QuerySqmImpl class outside of transaction #32766
• BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar#registerReflectionHints can be invoked with a null type #32753
• AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext should propagate ApplicationStartup to BeanFactory #32747
• Ignore non-String keys in PropertiesPropertySource.getPropertyNames() #32742
• MergedAnnotations search does not find container for repeatable annotation #32731
• "multiple subscribers not supported" when using WebClient exchange #32727
• ConfigurationClassEnhancer should consistently trigger FastClass creation at build-time #32682
• HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory does not set Content-Length: 0 #32678
• Wrong proxy generation order during AOT for classes with ScopedProxyMode.TARGET\_CLASS and advisors #32669
• Unhandled JMS listener exceptions are not propagated #32666
• beanFactory#getBean with arguments ignore them if an Instance supplier is defined #32657
• Incorrect AsyncRequestTimeoutException handling in ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #32644
• Include actual cause's message in various parsing exception messages #32636
• Configuration class with Bean factory method on an interface generates wrong target with AOT #32609
• RestClient observations are stopped before ResponseSpec calls #32575
• MvcUriComponentsBuilder.fromMethodName does not pick the annotated method transparently #32553
• Deadlock/Stall in ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator with Undertow 2.3.10 #32445
• RSocket setup payload can cause Netty ByteBuf leak #32424
• WebFlux temporary file not always deleted with parallel uploads. #31217

📔 Documentation

• Replace RFC 7807 by RFC 9457 in documentation #32806
• Links to Framework and Servlet Javadoc from Framework's Kotlin API documentation are broken #32797
• Fix incorrect class reference syntax in Kotlin code sample #32733
• Improve documentation advising against use of HandlerInterceptor for security #32729
• Inconsistent behaviour on transactional async method #32709
• Document that getBean with arguments is not recommended with AOT #32690
• Provide an example of custom request URL with RestClient in the reference guide #32685
• Correct documentation on streaming with MockMvcWebTestClient #32687
• Document limitations of CGLIB proxy class generation in JPMS module setups #32671
• Update links to HttpOnly documentation at OWASP in ResponseCookie #32663
• Document that RestTemplate may not return a body for certain exceptions #32641
• Document that DataIntegrityViolationException can also be thrown on read-only queries #32631
• Update documentation to explain streaming vs collecting and error handling with Flux<T> return values #32630
• Revise "The IoC Container" section to be more relevant for modern Spring applications #32429
• XML bean definition with factory-method does not always determine correct target type #32091
• Document @Order behavior on types, bean methods, and config classes #30177
• Clarify recommendation on self-injection for legitimate use cases (e.g. @Transactional re-entrant calls) #28299

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.6 #32810
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.6 #32786

❤️ Contributors

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

@LeMikaelF, @Seungpang, @izeye, @m4tt30c91, @remeio, and @yhao3