3.0.3 Release

⭐ New Features

• Conversion from String to MediaType should not fail with default ConversionService [SPR-7282] #11941
• Logging performance bottleneck in DispatcherServlet / UrlPathHelper [SPR-7269] #11928
• TypeMismatchException instead of IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch for wrong RequestBody [SPR-7263] #11922
• Consider add to "aspectj-autoproxy" tag attribute "exposeProxy" [SPR-7261] #11920
• Improve JavaDoc of TaskScheduler interface [SPR-7253] #11912
• form:hidden tag should allow most (All?) of the same HTML attributes as form:input [SPR-7249] #11908
• JavaMailSenderImpl should report failedMessages in the event of a network error [SPR-7245] #11904
• DataSourceUtils does not respect c3p0 TimeoutException [SPR-7226] #11885
• Introduce convenient boolean configuration attribute for enabling auto-refresh of Tiles definitions [SPR-7225] #11884
• Avoid EntityManager close() exception through isOpen() check [SPR-7215] #11874
• Extend HttpMessage interface to expose requestURL [SPR-7211] #11870
• Spring cannot load xml files from jars when wildcards used [SPR-7198] #11857
• Spring 3 classpath scanning fails on JBoss AS 6.0.0.M3 [SPR-7197] #11856
• Add configuration option to control creation of new consumers in DefaultMessageListenerContainer [SPR-7189] #11849
• MockHttpServletResponse remembers only one include URL. [SPR-7188] #11847
• DataSourceUtils.prepareConnectionForTransaction can throw SQLException when calls con.setTransactionIsolation(definition.getIsolationLevel()) [SPR-7184] #11843
• Radiobutton/Checkboxes tag doesn't utilize ConversionService for label rendering [SPR-7174] #11833
• SpEL: bean references in expressions [SPR-7173] #11832
• Add getLastTask() method to o.sf.util.StopWatch (and fix a couple of typos) [SPR-7134] #11793
• Filter out non-autowire candidates for calls to getBean(Class<?>) [SPR-7120] #11780
• Refactor InternalResourceView to expose getRequestDispatcher for overriding [SPR-7118] #11778
• Add ability for CNVR to search view names that use file extensions [SPR-7117] #11777
• Cache results of Converter lookup in GenericConversionService to improve performance [SPR-7110] #11770
• Optimize ObjectToStringConverter to ensure copies are not made when source is already a String [SPR-7109] #11769
• AbstractApplicationContext.close() could be more forgiving of exceptions [SPR-7106] #11766
• Improve conversion system logging [SPR-7105] #11765
• Cache the annotation-driven converters created from a AnnotationFormatterFactory to improve performance [SPR-7104] #11764
• SpEL: extend set of characters allowed for an identifier [SPR-7100] #11760
• Make formatter value configurable through Spring EL/Property PlaceHolder [SPR-7087] #11747
• Add ignoreJafMediaTypes to ContentNegotiatingViewResolver [SPR-7081] #11741
• ConversionService cannot override existing Resource editors [SPR-7079] #11739
• Add support in AopUtils for obtaining target class transitively when target is an AopProxy [SPR-7074] #11734
• MappingJacksonJsonView.renderedAttributes to be made visible to subclasses [SPR-7070] #11730
• Need the Ability to Determine if a JMS Listener has Created a Consumer for a Destination [SPR-7065] #11725
• Allows for on-the-fly persistence units merge without using hardcoded jar urls [SPR-7055] #11689
• More expected exception tweaks for SpEL expression method invocations [SPR-6941] #11606
• Add support for WebServiceFeature's to JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean [SPR-5712] #10382

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Spring aspects depends on javax.persistence/persistence-api 1.0. Conflicts with ROO including hibernate-jpa-2.0-api [SPR-7284] #11943
• Conversion service is attempting to convert types that should not be converted [SPR-7283] #11942
• GenericConversionService canConvert() throws NPE for void.class [SPR-7281] #11940
• SimpleAliasRegistry.canonicalName can produce an endless loop [SPR-7274] #11933
• Spring failed to start Circular SmartLifecycle dependencies [SPR-7266] #11925
• AutowireUtils requires ObjectFactory to be Serializable [SPR-7264] #11923
• ResponseStatus.reason() ignored for @ExceptionHandler methods [SPR-7259] #11918
• <form:errors path="*"/> generates span with incorrect id: [SPR-7258] #11917
• AbstractMarshaller incorrectly expects DOMResult to already have a node [SPR-7257] #11916
• spring context wrongly created when using aliases [SPR-7254] #11913
• Tiles 2.2.1 EL AttributeEvaluator not being setup correctly. EL doesn't work in Tiles definitions [SPR-7251] #11910
• Spring ORM with JPA 2.0 and Eclipselink throws ClassCastException. [SPR-7247] #11906
• EL expressions with chained map indexes in some cases fail to evaluate [SPR-7244] #11903
• CronSequenceGenerator should fail to parse invlid ranges of hours etc (e.g. months 11-13) [SPR-7239] #11898
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate has the potential to leak memory [SPR-7237] #11896
• @Transactional can't resolve by @Qualifier PlatformTransactionManager created in @Configuration classes [SPR-7232] #11891
• Tomcat does not shutdown correctly when using @Scheduled [SPR-7231] #11890
• Db2CallMetaDataProvider.metaDataSchemaNameToUse throws NPE if the DatabaseMetaData has no username [SPR-7228] #11887
• GC problem when having Spring jars in a higher ClassLoader without using clearClassLoader [SPR-7227] #11886
• mvc:annotation-driven intends to autodetect JodaTime 1.3 but accidentally includes earlier versions as well [SPR-7222] #11881
• Spring XML bean definition parser interprets tags that are not in the beans namespace [SPR-7218] #11877
• SpEL: Elvis operator throwing NPE in case of an empty base expression [SPR-7209] #11868
• Ref Doc still contains a section about ServerSessionMessageListenerContainer [SPR-7207] #11866
• AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster returns multiple instances of same listener for getApplicationListeners() [SPR-7204] #11863
• AbstractJdbcInsert failes with SqlLobValue type parameters [SPR-7199] #11858
• Null check missing from AbstractJdbcCall line 206 [SPR-7193] #11853
• DataBinder doesn't catch conversion problems in indexed properties [SPR-7177] #11836
• Creating a BeanFactoryPostProcessor in a @Configuration class changes the behaviour and is not documented. [SPR-7167] #11826
• FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory should use configured object wrapper to wrap variables, not SimpleHash [SPR-7165] #11824
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter not adding ETag [SPR-7160] #11819
• Potential null-pointer in TransactionAspectSupport.determineTransactionManager() [SPR-7153] #11812
• GenericConversionService can't find converters for interface-based arrays. [SPR-7150] #11809
• Caching of MessageProducers in CachingConnectionFactory not working with MQ [SPR-7148] #11807
• @Async and @Transactional annotations do not work on the same method [SPR-7147] #11806
• AppEngine : bug with SimpleClientHttpResponse.getHeaders [SPR-7146] #11805
• NullPointerException in AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter if HttpHeaders in ResponseEntity are empty [SPR-7145] #11804
• UrlPathHelper could make use of request.getPathInfo in some special cases [SPR-7143] #11802
• Logging for RmiServiceExporter shows incorrect registry port [SPR-7137] #11796
• BeanDefinitionVisitor fails to handle String[] properties. [SPR-7136] #11795
• org.springframework.http.MediaType#checkParameters fails to process a Content-Type like application/xml;charset="utf-8" [SPR-7135] #11794
• SelectTag fails when items is an Enumeration [SPR-7112] #11772
• TypeDescriptor context lost when converting collection or map elements [SPR-7111] #11771
• RestTemplate/UriTemplate/UriUtils improperly encoding UTF-8 [SPR-7107] #11767
• Field Annotation-driven conversion fails for properties where the first and second letters are upper case [SPR-7102] #11762
• nullpointer exception when customizing definitionsFactoryClass [SPR-7101] #11761
• Constructor resolution uses InputSource instead of URL argument for DBUnit FlatXmlDataSet [SPR-7099] #11759
• Property placeholder with expression as default fallback fails [SPR-7098] #11758
• Problem with spring:eval under Jetty but not Tomcat [SPR-7096] #11756
• AnnotationMethodHandlerExceptionResolver incorrectly resolving exceptions [SPR-7085] #11745
• IllegalArgumentException thrown for simple java.lang.String prototype bean [SPR-7084] #11744
• Unable to inject a URI with a fragment as a bean property value [SPR-7083] #11743
• ReflectionUtils.makeAccessible(Field) should check for Modifier.isFinal [SPR-7078] #11738
• maxConcurrentConsumers property of DefaultMessageListenerContainer cannot be decreased in runtime [SPR-7075] #11735
• Javadoc: UrlPathHelper.getOriginatingQueryString javadoc is a copy-pastie of UrlPathHelper.getOriginatingRequestUri [SPR-7072] #11732
• petcare sample not writing form actions correctly on WebSphere 7 [SPR-7067] #11727
• Interface-based CGLib created beans cannot be used as factory beans [SPR-7066] #11726
• @RequestMapping "/" Paths [SPR-7064] #11724
• MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter breaks with Jackson 1.0.x [SPR-7063] #11723
• ProxyFactoryBean for intercept-methods can't predict type of bean to be created [SPR-7006] #11671
• CronTrigger is not triggered at correct time [SPR-7004] #11669
• Tomcat does not shutdown correctly when using task:scheduled-taks [SPR-6901] #11566
• MBeanExporter attempts to instantiate a bean marked as abstract [SPR-6784] #11450
• Missing package import for javax.persistence.criteria in ORM [SPR-6636] #11302
• @PathVariable is unable to match trailing end of a URL [SPR-5365] #10038

📔 Documentation

• JExcel example code has compilation errors [SPR-7277] #11936
• Spring AOP documentation - Make it clear that @Component is needed as well as @Aspect for the annotation based approach [SPR-7246] #11905
• Doc: AspectJ argument binding does not work with typed collections [SPR-7186] #11845
• Correct typos: ch 19 [SPR-7159] #11818
• Correct typos: ch 5, ch 15 [SPR-7158] #11817
• Mention position of Errors instance in method signature more explicitly [SPR-7103] #11763
• Ch 3 IoC Container: Correct typos [SPR-7090] #11750