v6.2.0-M1

⭐ New Features

• Remove unnecessary method.isAccessible() invocation #32548
• Improve names of classes generated by the SpEL compiler #32497
• Refine null-safety with NullAway build-time checks #32475
• Consistent handling of undeclared checked exceptions in CGLIB proxies #32469
• Resolve property-dependent parameter names for exception messages #32462
• Consistent ErrorHandler support in TaskScheduler variants #32460
• Add CBOR support to AllEncompassingFormHttpMessageConverter #32428
• Reject null return value from MethodReplacer for primitive return type #32412
• Make SpEL's OptimalPropertyAccessor private #32410
• NPE when using pathExtension predicate for routes that have no file extensions #32404
• Use Map#computeIfAbsent in SpEL support classes #32385
• Use ELContext instead of deprecated VariableResolver API in JspPropertyAccessor #32383
• Add web support for YAML via Jackson #32345
• Add DataSource configuration/exposure to LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean #32344
• ServletResponseHttpHeaders ignores content type in ServletResponse #32339
• Use ConcurrentHashMap.newKeySet where feasible #32294
• Avoid resizing of fixed-size HashSet/LinkedHashSet variants #32291
• Support backticks for quoted identifiers in spring-r2dbc #32285
• Avoid internal lifecycle synchronization for SingleConnectionFactory and SingleConnectionDataSource #32284
• DefaultMessageListenerContainer should be able to scale down using default config #32260
• Revise DefaultMessageListenerContainer for first-class virtual thread support #32252
• Optimize Request Predicate attribute merging #32245
• Add ThreadLocalAccessor for LocaleContext and RequestAttributes #32243
• Avoid ASYNC dispatch if possible in DefaultAsyncServerResponse #32223
• Deprecate LobHandler and SqlXmlHandler abstractions (including SqlLobValue and related support classes) #32179
• Revisit default lifecycle phases and timeouts (e.g. for ThreadPoolTaskScheduler) #32152
• Harmonize ChannelRegistration to use Executor rather than TaskExecutor #32129
• Deprecate HttpHeaders.writableHttpHeaders #32116
• JsonPathAssertions methods that take a type used as a lambda should be ordered consistently #32062
• Deprecate local variable support in SpEL's internal ExpressionState #32004
• Support sending large STOMP messages as fragmented frames on WebSocketStompClient #31970
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate does not support backticks for quoted identifiers #31944
• Use UTF-8 by default for JSON multipart content in ContentRequestMatchers #31924
• Add interception of RFC-7807 responses #31822
• Provide more control over charset parameter when writing form data #31781
• Enhance WebTestClient to support JSONPath decoding to higher level objects #31653
• Enhance JsonPathExpectationsHelper to allow use of JSONPath Configuration #31651
• Support "--" end of options in SimpleCommandLineArgsParser #31513
• Make use of bean definition overriding more visible #31288
• Initial support for Servlet 6.1 #31159
• Initial support for JPA 3.2 #31157
• Support to propagate a savepoint operation via TransactionSynchronization #30509
• Resolve type variable recursively in GenericTypeResolver #30079
• Propagate WebClient attributes into underlying HTTP client request where possible #29958
• Provide a safe way to override and mock beans in the TestContext framework #29917
• Invoke methods via public interface/superclass in compiled SpEL expressions #29857
• Introduce null-safe index operator in SpEL #29847
• @Valid annotation can't establish dependency relationship between beans #29730
• Optimize constructor dependency injection performance for parameter name matches #28122
• Efficient webjars version resolution via webjars-locator-lite #27619
• Throw Exception when two primary beans are present in one factory #26612
• Allow creation of Beans that cannot be autowired by type unless qualified #26528
• Introduce IndexAccessor SPI to customize the SpEL Indexer #26478
• Introduce support for non-@Primary fallback beans #26241
• Optimize ConfigurationClassPostProcessor#enhanceConfigurationClasses method to shorten startup time #25738
• Inherited @Transactional methods should be able to use class-level TransactionManager qualifier from concrete class #24291
• TaskScheduler does not work with TaskDecorator #23755
• Synchronization during singleton creation may result in deadlock #23501
• Allow global default for @Transactional rollback behavior on checked exceptions #23473
• Add support for resolving multiple bounds in type variables #22902
• @Transactional annotation can't establish dependency relationship between beans #22526
• Asynchronous EntityManagerFactory bootstrapping to complete on context refresh completion [SPR-17334] #21868
• Provide a mechanism to be notified that a bean has been created [SPR-16822] #21362
• Reduce the effect of different base package configuration on component scanning performance and make the effect more intuitive [SPR-16649] #21190
• Support AssertJ variant in MockMvc [SPR-16637] #21178
• Support configuration of connection URL via EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder [SPR-16619] #21160
• Revisit storage of null attributes in AbstractFallbackTransaction/CacheAttributeSource [SPR-15513] #20072
• Asynchronous initialization of beans during startup [SPR-14920] [#19487](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issu...

v6.1.6

⭐ New Features

• Log column type for limited support message in JdbcUtils.getResultSetValue #32601
• Consistent support for generic FactoryBean type matching when using getBeanProvider #32590
• @RequestParam binding does not support params with an empty array "[]" suffix #32577
• Maximum Request Size handling support for Undertow in StandardMultipartHttpServletRequest #32549
• Introduce common support for is-null-safe checks in SpEL nodes #32516
• Avoid additional unnecessary Annotation array cloning in TypeDescriptor #32476
• Avoid cloning empty Annotation array in TypeDescriptor #32405

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Refine scheme, userinfo, host and port parsing in UriComponentsBuilder #32616
• "GET must not have a request body" exception with OkhttpClient and BufferingClientHttpRequestFactory #32612
• JMSTemplate.sendAndReceive does not propagate tracer over the wire #32606
• Calling Kotlin suspend functions in non-reactive application crashes due to unresolvable class #32599
• MethodIntrospector.selectMethods() fails to detect bridge methods across ApplicationContexts #32586
• Fix handling value class with private constructor on proxy #32536
• ReactorNettyClientResponse should not dispose connection #32528
• CompoundExpression omits null-safe syntax in AST string representation of null-safe selection/projection in SpEL #32515
• Generic Kotlin controllers got broken in 6.1.5 #32510
• WebFlux Blocking controller runs on non-blocking thread when request input data present #32502
• Generic interface on FactoryBean class not autowired in case of targetType mismatch #32489
• HeaderContentNegotiationStrategy.resolveMediaTypes() throws unexpected InvalidMimeTypeException #32483
• JmsUtils.commitIfNecessary catches and ignores JMS IllegalStateException, losing message with ActiveMQ Artemis #32473
• Missing bean class in native image with a Kotlin nested class #32472
• Spring MVC re-creates form data from request params and re-encoding can change the content-length #32471
• Unhandled JMS exceptions are not always recorded as observation errors #32458
• Consistently apply TaskDecorator to ManagedExecutorService as well #32455

📔 Documentation

• SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler: Returned ScheduledFuture does not track provided task execution #32589
• Remove link to unrelated method in javadoc of AnnotatedBeanDefinitionReader #32560
• Fix typos and improve wording in reference documentation #32557
• Document that active profiles are set at build time with AOT #32543
• Fix broken link to vavr in the reference guide #32494
• Document AOT limitations related to Kotlin identifiers with backticks #32487
• Add Javadoc since to AbstractClientHttpRequestFactoryWrapper.getDelegate() #32474
• Default strategy for ProblemDetail error codes wrongly document how "detail" is supported #32446

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.5 #32596
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.5 #32592

❤️ Contributors

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

@Banuelorigni, @LinorDolev, @T45K, @izeye, @kilink, @quaff, and @qww1552

v6.0.19

⭐ New Features

• Log column type for limited support message in JdbcUtils.getResultSetValue #32602
• Avoid additional unnecessary Annotation array cloning in TypeDescriptor #32478
• Avoid cloning empty Annotation array in TypeDescriptor #32465

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Refine scheme, userinfo, host and port parsing in UriComponentsBuilder #32617
• MethodIntrospector.selectMethods() fails to detect bridge methods across ApplicationContexts #32587
• Generic interface on FactoryBean class not autowired in case of targetType mismatch #32585
• HeaderContentNegotiationStrategy.resolveMediaTypes() throws unexpected InvalidMimeTypeException #32484
• JmsUtils.commitIfNecessary catches and ignores JMS IllegalStateException, losing message with ActiveMQ Artemis #32479
• Consistently apply TaskDecorator to ManagedExecutorService as well #32456

📔 Documentation

• Fix broken link to vavr in the reference guide #32495

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.18 #32593

v5.3.34

⭐ New Features

• Log column type for limited support message in JdbcUtils.getResultSetValue #32603
• Avoid additional unnecessary Annotation array cloning in TypeDescriptor #32477
• Avoid cloning empty Annotation array in TypeDescriptor #32466

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Refine scheme, userinfo, host and port parsing in UriComponentsBuilder #32618
• MethodIntrospector.selectMethods() fails to detect bridge methods across ApplicationContexts #32588
• JmsUtils.commitIfNecessary catches and ignores JMS IllegalStateException, losing message with ActiveMQ Artemis #32480
• Consistently apply TaskDecorator to ManagedExecutorService as well #32457

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.43 #32594

v6.1.5

⭐ New Features

• Extract reusable method for URI validations #32440
• Allow UriTemplate to be built with an empty template #32432
• Optimize Coroutine invocations #32390
• Improve exception message when Scheduled tasks that are using Virtual Threads fail on shutdown #32381
• Add query parameters to MockMvc Kotlin DSL #32371
• Optimize content type parsing in ServletServerHttpResponse #32361
• Refine handling of disconnected client error in ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver #32359
• Refine \*HttpMessageConverter#getContentLength return value null safety #32325
• Optimize HttpHeaders.getAcceptLanguageAsLocales #32318
• SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler: consistently apply default error handling #32298
• Use Spliterator of underlying collection in MutablePropertyValues / MutablePropertySources #32281

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SpEL fails to compile expression indexing into boolean array #32400
• WebClient Observations are missing error #32389
• WebClient request sent twice instantly when using @Cacheable #32370
• AopUtils.getMostSpecificMethod does not return original method for proxy-derived method anymore #32365
• Fix ServletResponseHttpHeaders#get null handling #32362
• Compiled SpEL expression fails if #root or #this is a non-public type #32356
• Suspend handler methods fail on nullable value class parameters #32353
• Better protect against concurrent error handling for async requests #32340
• Performance degradation due to Kotlin value class checks #32334
• With value referenced from property file in XML configuration, setter selection can be random in case of overloaded setter methods (e.g. on SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory) #32329
• constructor-impl of Kotlin value class is not called #32324
• ContentCachingResponseWrapper no longer honors Content-Type and Content-Length #32317
• Hibernate native image support broken by HHH-17643 #32311
• Revisit DatabaseMetadata#getProcedures to only apply fallback if original search yield more than one result #32295
• Remove Observation.Context from WebClient request #32198

📔 Documentation

• Refine "Redirecting to a resource" section code sample #32423
• Javadoc of ReactorNettyClientRequestFactory#setExchangeTimeout methods have wrong default value #32419
• Fix order of 2 sections in the Validation chapter of the reference manual #32408
• Fix Javadoc #32403
• Document that SpEL expressions using array construction cannot be compiled #32401
• Improve documentation for @Sql execution phases regarding lifecycle #32343
• Omit parameter names in REST Clients section of reference docs #32335
• Different transaction name when using TransactionAspectSupport.currentTransactionStatus().transactionName #32310
• Provide guidelines for using Kotlin properties with proxies (@RequestScope and similar use cases) #32287
• Correct documentation for userDestinationPrefix in MessageBrokerRegistry #32272

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.4 #32431
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.4 #32420

❤️ Contributors

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

@Xednar, @ZeroCyan, @bsgrd, @ddaaac, @kilink, @qeeqez, and @quaff

v6.0.18

⭐ New Features

• Extract reusable method for URI validations #32441
• Allow UriTemplate to be built with an empty template #32437
• Refine \*HttpMessageConverter#getContentLength return value null safety #32333

🐞 Bug Fixes

• WebClient Observations are missing error #32399
• AopUtils.getMostSpecificMethod does not return original method for proxy-derived method anymore #32368
• Better protect against concurrent error handling for async requests #32341
• ContentCachingResponseWrapper no longer honors Content-Type and Content-Length #32321
• Hibernate native image support broken by HHH-17643 #32312

📔 Documentation

• Fix order of 2 sections in the Validation chapter of the reference manual #32409

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.17 #32421

v5.3.33

⭐ New Features

• Extract reusable method for URI validations #32442
• Allow UriTemplate to be built with an empty template #32438
• Refine *HttpMessageConverter#getContentLength return value null safety #32332

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AopUtils.getMostSpecificMethod does not return original method for proxy-derived method anymore #32369
• Better protect against concurrent error handling for async requests #32342
• Restore Jetty 10 compatibility in JettyClientHttpResponse #32337
• ContentCachingResponseWrapper no longer honors Content-Type and Content-Length #32322

📔 Documentation

• Build KDoc against 5.3.x Spring Framework Javadoc #32414

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.42 #32422

v6.1.4

⭐ New Features

• Add missing RequestPredicate variants in coRouter #32256
• Adapt ConcurrencyThrottleSupport to use ReentrantLock for better virtual thread support #32251
• Create optimized versions of request predicates #32244
• Include function name in SpelMessage.INCORRECT\_NUMBER\_OF\_ARGUMENTS\_TO\_FUNCTION #32239
• Add Coroutines support to NonReactiveHandlerMethodPredicate #32227
• RouterFunctionMapping does not implement MatchableHandlerMapping #32221
• Initialize (another) Map with correct size in RequestPredicates #32215
• Make SmartLifecycle phase value configurable in STOMP message handling components #32205
• Initialize Map with correct size in RequestPredicates #32201
• Let BeanPropertyRowMapper subclasses customize mapped names #32199
• Improve client and server handling of STOMP heartbeat failures #32195
• Optimize Map methods in ServletAttributesMap #32189
• Support binary streams with JdbcClient #32161
• Annotate core functional SPIs in SpEL with @FunctionalInterface #32135
• Cannot use SimpleJdbcInsert with catalog name #32124
• Refactor ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource #32118
• Reuse MapPropertySource for DynamicValuesPropertySource implementation (as a template for custom variants) #32110
• Improve Spring AOP performance for methods without specific advice #32104
• Make it possible to configure any TaskExecutor through ChannelRegistration #32081
• Add support for JSON streams to Kotlin Serialization #32074
• Avoid reflecting to obtain validationGroups every time the call is made #32068
• Reject @RequestMapping and @HttpExchange declarations on the same element #32065
• Missing toString for ExponentialBackOff #32061
• Reject multiple @HttpExchange declarations on the same element #32049
• ClientAbortException from StreamingResponseBody can cause infinite loop of dispatches #32042
• Log warning if multiple @PostMapping, @GetMapping, etc. annotations are declared #31962
• Using types in @SessionAttributes is sometimes not reflected in the model #30463
• Improve read publisher cancel handling to avoid connections in CLOSE_WAIT state with WebSocket on Tomcat #30393
• Provide more control over JPA entities scanning #27892
• Provide and document a way to handle single-page application redirects #27257
• MockMvcClientHttpRequestFactory swallows ServletResponse.errorMessage #26720

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Cannot send Server-Sent Events without data using WebMvc.fn SseBuilder #32270
• Fix pathExtension null-safety in Kotlin DSLs #32254
• SimpleEvaluationContext.Builder is not final and has a public constructor #32253
• @JsonDeserialize(builder = ...) does not work in GraalVM native image #32238
• RestClientAdapter claims it supports request attributes when it does not #32232
• ThreadPoolTaskExecutor rejecting tasks as soon as the context has been closed can lead to exceptions during web app shutdown #32226
• Consistent parsing of user information in UriComponentsBuilder #32211
• "IllegalStateException: Cannot call sendError() after the response has been committed" when IOException is thrown during resolving method argument values on Tomcat >= 10.1.16 #32206
• No longer able to override the toString() in HandlerMethod from 6.1.3 #32184
• 6.1.3 regression: aspect not called with multiple inheritance #32181
• Unable to use baseUrl on builders created from RestTemplate #32180
• MessageDeliveryException on shutdown with open WebSocket connections #32171
• With XML configuration, setter selection can be random in case of overloaded setter methods (e.g. on SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory in 6.1.3 from convertForProperty method) #32159
• Cannot process AOT when spring-orm is on the classpath without JPA #32155
• SpEL's Indexer.setArrayElement() incorrectly requests conversion to wrapper instead of primitive #32147
• SpEL increment and decrement operators do not generate prefix AST representation #32144
• Validation of PartEventHttpMessageReader#maxParts is off by one #32122
• QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver.checkQualifier does identity checks when comparing arrays used as qualifier fields #32106
• Guard against multiple body subscriptions in Jetty and JDK reactive responses #32100
• Parameter based cache keys on repository methods can't resolve after 6.1.2->6.1.3 #32087
• Exceptions thrown by custom error handlers are not recorded in RestTemplate observations #32060
• Static resources caching issues with ShallowEtagHeaderFilter and Jetty caching directives #32039
• RestClient calls interceptors from RestTemplate twice #32038
• DefaultRestClientBuilder.defaultRequest(...) doesn't do anything #32028
• Alias resolution error message in SimpleAliasRegistry is misleading #32025
• Destroy method not found in Native image for ExecutorService Bean type #32006
• RequestPredicate fails with WebFlux 6.1.2 #31955
• ChannelSendOperator.WriteBarrier race condition in request(long) method leads to response being dropped #31865

📔 Documentation

• Fix Kotlin syntax errors in RestClient builder example in rest-clients.adoc #32265
• Use double dot in "META-INF/aop.xml" documentation #32264
• Document that functions are variables in SpEL EvaluationContexts #32258
• Add section on AOT best practices about registering beans programmatically #32241
• Add section on AOT best practices about registering singletons #32240
• Fixes syntax error in JdbcClient examples #32236
• Document @RequestAttribute in HTTP clients [#32231](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework...

v6.0.17

⭐ New Features

• RouterFunctionMapping does not implement MatchableHandlerMapping #32222
• Optimize Map methods in ServletAttributesMap #32197

🐞 Bug Fixes

• @JsonDeserialize(builder = ...) does not work in GraalVM native image #32257
• Consistent parsing of user information in UriComponentsBuilder #32246
• "IllegalStateException: Cannot call sendError() after the response has been committed" when IOException is thrown during resolving method argument values on Tomcat >= 10.1.16 #32207
• Cannot process AOT when spring-orm is on the classpath without JPA #32160
• QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver.checkQualifier does identity checks when comparing arrays used as qualifier fields #32107
• Guard against multiple body subscriptions in Jetty and JDK reactive responses #32102
• Exceptions thrown by custom error handlers are not recorded in RestTemplate observations #32063
• Static resources caching issues with ShallowEtagHeaderFilter and Jetty caching directives #32050
• ChannelSendOperator.WriteBarrier race condition in request(long) method leads to response being dropped #32020
• Destroy method not found in Native image for ExecutorService Bean type #32017

📔 Documentation

• Update basics.adoc #32151
• Document cron-vs-quartz parsing convention for dayOfWeek part in CronExpression #32130

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.16 #32275

v5.3.32

⭐ New Features

• Add CORS support for Private Network Access #31974
• Avoid early getMostSpecificMethod resolution in CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor #31969

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Consistent parsing of user information in UriComponentsBuilder #32247
• QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver.checkQualifier does identity checks when comparing arrays used as qualifier fields #32108
• Guard against multiple body subscriptions in Jetty and JDK reactive responses #32101
• Static resources caching issues with ShallowEtagHeaderFilter and Jetty caching directives #32051
• ChannelSendOperator.WriteBarrier race condition in request(long) method leads to response being dropped #32021
• Spring AOP does not propagate arguments for dynamic prototype-scoped advice #31964
• MergedAnnotation swallows IllegalAccessException for attribute method #31961
• CronTrigger hard-codes default ZoneId instead of participating in scheduler-wide Clock setup #31950
• MergedAnnotations finds duplicate annotations on method in multi-level interface hierarchy #31825
• PathEditor cannot handle absolute Windows paths with forward slashes #31728
• Include Hibernate's Query.scroll() in SharedEntityManagerCreator's queryTerminatingMethods set #31684
• TypeDescriptor does not check generics in equals method (for ConversionService caching) #31674
• Slow SpEL performance due to method sorting in ReflectiveMethodResolver #31665
• Jackson encoder releases resources in wrong order #31657
• WebSocketMessageBrokerStats has null stats for stompSubProtocolHandler since 5.3.2 #31642

📔 Documentation

• Document cron-vs-quartz parsing convention for dayOfWeek part in CronExpression #32131

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.41 #32276