v6.2.1

⭐ New Features

• Implement toString() in TestBeanOverrideHandler #34072
• Log alias removal in DefaultListableBeanFactory #34070
• Log warning when one Bean Override overrides another Bean Override #34056
• Introduce "unsafeAllocated" flag in TypeHint #34055
• Cannot assert status reason phrase with MockMvcTester #34016
• Improve toString for reactive ScheduledTask #34010
• Optimize sending requests without a body in RestClient and WebClient with Reactor Netty #34003
• Add missing @Contract annotation to ObjectUtils#isEmpty #33984
• OptionalValidatorFactoryBean suppresses Hibernate Validator configuration failures too much #33979
• Support Flux<ServerSentEvent<Fragment>> in WebFlux #33975
• Update in FragmentsRendering to names of static methods #33974
• Honor @Fallback semantics for Test Bean Overrides #33924
• AdvisedSupport.MethodCacheKey should check for logical equality as well as identity #33915
• Fail with full description for XML diff in XmlExpectationsHelper #33827
• MapMethodProcessor should only resolve arguments of type Map or the ModelMap hierarchy #33160

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Support binding from request headers via constructor args #34073
• Unable to configure custom scheduler for @Scheduled annotation #34058
• Identical Bean Overrides are silently allowed #34054
• OOM due to NoTransactionInContextException in reactive pipeline #34048
• Priority header causes binding exception after upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.0 #34039
• @MockitoBean incorrectly injects supertype into subtype field #34025
• NestedPlaceholder are not recursively resolved if the fallback is a placeholder #34020
• AOT no longer generates BeanInstanceSupplier signature for a CGLIB proxy with its public type #33998
• Nested transaction support via savepoints is broken in Oracle database #33987
• Proxy created with IntroductionInterceptor but without target always throws an exception #33985
• ApplicationListener no longer invoked for generic ApplicationEvent with 6.2.0 #33982
• Error handling override in DefaultResponseErrorHandler ignored after upgrade to 6.2.0 #33980
• BeanCurrentlyInCreationException is thrown when multiple threads simultaneously try to create a FactoryBean #33972
• HandshakeWebSocketService assumes jakarta websocket is present #33970
• @Value cases SpringCGLIB$$0 required a bean of type java.lang.String that could not be found in Native compile when migrating to SB 3.4 #33960
• PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver should not log directory-skip messages at info level #33956
• Avoid infinite recursion in BeanValidationBeanRegistrationAotProcessor with recursive generics #33950
• Skip runtime hint registration for validation constraint with missing dependencies #33949
• Move Kotlin value class unboxing to InvocableHandlerMethod #33943
• MockReset strategy is no longer honored for @MockitoBean and @MockitoSpyBean #33941
• TypeDescriptor with recursive generics triggers infinite recursion in ResolvableType.equals/hashCode #33932
• RestClient does not expose full URI template as attribute #33928
• Bean Overrides like @MockitoBean and @TestBean should not be allowed on static fields #33922
• Regression in duplicate beans with different method names #33920

📔 Documentation

• Fix link to MockMvcBuilders in reference documentation #34031
• Fix a typo in the filters documentation #33959
• Document visibility requirements for Bean Overrides #33923
• Fix typos and link in Observability documentation #33910
• SpEL documentation contains syntax errors #33907
• Improve explanation of AOP advice classes that should implement MethodInterceptor #33901
• Reflect well-known HttpHeaders intent in Javadoc #33886
• Reflect well-known MediaTypes intent in Javadoc #33754
• Document support for varargs invocations in SpEL #33332

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.2 #34050
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.1 #34051

❤️ Contributors

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

@Boiarshinov, @CHOICORE, @KNU-K, @izeye, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @scordio, @sonallux, and @youabledev