3.0.2 Release

⭐ New Features

• MappingJacksonJsonView should add headers for no-caching [SPR-7031] #11693
• Support for HttpEntity<?> in @MVC [SPR-7018] #11680
• RestTemplate fails to convert properly for Generic Type Container with MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter [SPR-7002] #11667
• Performance improvement for TransactionSynchronizationManager.getSynchronizations() [SPR-6999] #11664
• Provide mechanism for injecting a Serializable Provider or ObjectFactory via XML [SPR-6998] #11663
• Auto-growing of collections should be implemented for collection writing as well as reading [SPR-6984] #11649
• org.springframework.core.TypeDescriptor.getAnnotations() should return the method annotation when it wraps the return parameter of the Method [SPR-6979] #11644
• GenericTypeResolver does not properly handle array parameter types [SPR-6977] #11642
• Add debug log for HttpMessageConverter usage [SPR-6976] #11641
• JaxWsPortClientInterceptor gives errors with wsdl service names, not actual endpoints [SPR-6971] #11636
• Introduce HttpEntity [SPR-6969] #11634
• SpEL support for bean property access via square brackets [SPR-6968] #11633
• SimpleJdbcCall.returningResultSet() should accept RowMapper instead of ParameterizedRowMapper [SPR-6963] #11628
• RestTemplate should not encode fragments (#'s) [SPR-6946] #11611
• @ResponseBody with method that return void throws "Could not resolve view exception". [SPR-6935] #11600
• Making org.springframework.scheduling.support.CronSequenceGenerator a public class [SPR-6920] #11585
• WebContentInterceptor restricting HTTP request methods by default [SPR-6919] #11584
• JibxMarshaller - provide access to jibx's writeDocType [SPR-6907] #11572
• HibernateJpaDialect does not allow ConnectionManager to eagerly release Connection for long-running Session [SPR-6895] #11560
• Improve documentation for JavaConfig's use of CGLIB for all @Configuration annotated classes [SPR-6885] #11551
• Portlet pom states dependency to spring-asm twice [SPR-6881] #11547
• form:error tag generates HTML id which contains [ and ], when bound to indexed property [SPR-6862] #11528
• HiddenHttpMethodFilter does not support multipart requests [SPR-6594] #11260
• Allow for using MultiValueMap in GET request for mapping multiple request params [SPR-6021] #10690
• Multipart/mixed requests using RestTemplate [SPR-5904] #10573
• RestTemplate - access to Request Headers [SPR-5866] #10535
• Improve error messaging when factory-method is not found [SPR-5475] #10148
• Add LocalSessionFactoryBean.validateDatabaseSchema() [SPR-3212] #7898

🪲 Bug Fixes

• @DateTimeFormat causes exception when used with Direct Field Access bean binding [SPR-7809] #12465
• GenericConversionService ignores converters for arrays [SPR-7462] #12120
• @Value annotation in Validator triggers Exception when resolving. [SPR-7196] #11855
• @ResponseStatus: The reason value is not used. [SPR-7060] #11720
• [doc][spel] Documentation refers to TemplatedParserContext. Class is TemplateParserContext [SPR-7059] #11719
• Constructor injection is not working properly for collections unless the type of collection is specified [SPR-7058] #11718
• MVC 3 not forwarding "/" path in WebSphere 7 [SPR-7052] #11713
• InputStream never closed when using JasperReports 3.x [SPR-7048] #11709
• XML MarshallingView assumes non-null value for object to be marshalled. [SPR-7047] #11708
• ContextLoader requires servlet-api 2.5 [SPR-7044] #11706
• Spring Form Tags cause AccessControlException on Google App Engine [SPR-7042] #11704
• XmlBeans UnMarshalling - does not work with RequestBody annotation [SPR-7034] #11696
• Strange MANIFEST.MF and extra jar file inside org.springframework.web.struts jar artifact [SPR-7033] #11695
• NPE in RuntimeTestWalker [SPR-7032] #11694
• OptionWriter.renderFromMap fails when map key is null [SPR-7024] #11686
• Validation for nested properties is buggy [SPR-7019] #11681
• NPE when attempting to expose JaxWs Port Proxy via mbean exporter [SPR-7011] #11676
• Spring ignores @Transaction due to double proxying [SPR-7009] #11674
• AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter gives priority to media type order over quality when selecting a method [SPR-7000] #11665
• Memory leak using TransactionDelegate and transaction.commit() [SPR-6991] #11656
• Spring web's tag library removes "[" and "]" in the path attribute for input (and possibly others). [SPR-6989] #11654
• Incorrect OSGi dependencies in 3.0.1 RELEASE [SPR-6985] #11650
• Dispatcher fails to invoke handler method when request method conflicts with request path [SPR-6978] #11643
• JPA 2.0 support not enabled for OpenJPA (and others?) [SPR-6975] #11640
• Proxy created for intercept-methods doesn't respect autowire-candidate attribute [SPR-6974] #11639
• AbstractHttpMessageConverter canWrite logic the wrong way round?? [SPR-6970] #11635
• Problem with Spring 3.0 when DispatcherServlet is decladed as a Spring bean itself [SPR-6964] #11629
• Exceptions thrown from an ActionRequest are not handled via @ExceptionHandler [SPR-6959] #11624
• when combining mvc:annotation-driven and DataBinder.initdirectfieldaccess, conversion problems cause ConversionFailedException instead of being handled by the DataBinder [SPR-6953] #11618
• Conversion creates collection with invalid elements for @Controller bind target [SPR-6950] #11615
• NullPointerException from DefaultListableBeanFactory caused by BeanConfigurerSupport [SPR-6947] #11612
• XStreamMarshaller + JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver + JsonWriter.DROP_ROOT_MODE produce empty output [SPR-6939] #11604
• AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter should take into account request accept header ordering [SPR-6934] #11599
• NPE if BeanPostProcessor returns null [SPR-6926] #11591
• Spring 3.0.1 cannot concatenate Spring with SpEL expression in debug mode [SPR-6924] #11589
• SpEL resolving nested property as outer object [SPR-6923] #11588
• @Value does not work with the test context framework [SPR-6918] #11583
• autowire byType uses parameter name info if compile with debug info [SPR-6917] #11582
• a bean with an id="conversionService" gives an Exception only in version 3.0.1 [SPR-6916] #11581
• WebApplicationObject.initServletContext() invoked twice [SPR-6914] #11579
• Long values are incorrectly stored on Oracle when using SimpleJdbcInsert, instead of SimpleJdbcTemplate [SPR-6912] #11577
• Combination of ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping and @RequestMappings with file extensions results in exception [SPR-6906] #11571
• org.springframework.context-3.0.1-RELEASE-A has a import error in its manifest [SPR-6905] #11570
• Business exceptions wrapped in HessianClientInterceptor with Hessian 4.0 [SPR-6899] #11564
• exotic MIME-Type leads to 500 Internal Server Error [SPR-6894] #11559
• TransactionalTestExecutionListener ignores @Transactional transaction manager qualifier [SPR-6892] #11557
• ClassPathResource-related FileNotFoundExceptions do not contain fully-qualified resource paths when using class literal convenience constructor [SPR-6888] #11554
• SQLErrorCodesFactory.dataSourceCache should be WeakHashMap [SPR-6887] #11553
• Provide ability to inherit @DirtiesContext specification in subclasses [SPR-6879] #11545
• An optional @RequestParam parameter of an @InitBinder method is filled with garbarge instead of null, if the corresponding parameter is missing on the URL [SPR-6878] #11544
• AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handleResponseBody prioritizes messageConverter over MediaType [SPR-6877] #11543
• RequestMethod does not appear to factor into @RequestMapping uniqueness in some cases [SPR-6876] #11542
• UriTemplate and restTemplate don't url encode the at-sign (@) [SPR-6874] #11540
• AbstractFactoryBean.getObjectType() signature is incorrect [SPR-6872] #11538
• Spring MVC regression: binding to indexed properties is broken [SPR-6871] #11537
• Invalid expression strings result in cryptic NullPointerException when parsed [SPR-6866] #11532
• Expression.getValue(..., Class) calls that invoke methods fail with a ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when method return value needs to be converted to the desired result type [SPR-6865] #11531
• TypeUtils.isAssignable() Returns Incorrect Value with Lower Bounds [SPR-6850] #11516
• MockStaticEntityMethods is not honored by AnnotationDrivenStaticEntityMockingControl pointcuts [SPR-6734] #11400
• org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.TagIdGenerator doesn't remove characters [] and double-quotes [SPR-5382] #10055

📔 Documentation

• Typo in 'Logging' section [SPR-6967] #11632
• Document Spring MVC exception -> HTTP status code mappings [SPR-6728] #11394
• URL JSP tag is missing from the reference guide [SPR-6566] #11232
• Document use of ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping with Spring MVC @Controllers [SPR-6533] #11199