4.0 RC1 Release

⭐ New Features

• Support class-level mappings via @MessageMapping or @SubscribeEvent [SPR-11024] #15652
• ScriptExecutor for JSR-223 [SPR-11007] #15635
• Update json-path dependency to 0.9.0 [SPR-10990] #15618
• Add support for resolving message header based arguments [SPR-10985] #15613
• Introduce ResolvableType Class [SPR-10973] #15601
• Provide option to configure "host" header in CONNECT frames to STOMP message brokers [SPR-10955] #15583
• Support @PathVariable in annotated message handling methods [SPR-10949] #15577
• SpEL: Make EvaluationException more informative with Expression [SPR-10938] #15566
• Add "ignoreResourceNotFound" attribute to the @PropertySource [SPR-10932] #15560
• Add IssueManagement declaration to POMs [SPR-10929] #15557
• PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor.setBeanFactory(BeanFactory) causes unwanted early initialization [SPR-10894] #15522
• Potential out-of-memory in AbstractSockJsService [SPR-10893] #15521
• Validate if body is allowed in StompMessageConverter for the given command [SPR-10890] #15518
• Provide support for using multiple MessageConverters depending on the Content-Type of a STOMP message [SPR-10889] #15517
• Use ListenableFuture as the return value in WebSocketClient methods [SPR-10888] #15516
• Make conversion framework extensible for non-Java classes [SPR-10887] #15515
• ThreadPoolTaskScheduler setPoolSize() unable to change the pool size at runtime [SPR-10883] #15510
• oxm:jibx-marshaller lacks support for "target-package" annotation [SPR-10882] #15509
• Switch to Jetty's @WebSocket (from WebSocketListener) [SPR-10877] #15504
• Add STOMP heartbeat support [SPR-10845] #15472
• Add support for extensions during WebSocket handshake [SPR-10843] #15470
• Compatibility problems with Hibernate 4.3.0.Beta1 and newer [SPR-10839] #15465
• Hibernate 4 Multi Tenancy Feature Support [SPR-10823] #15449
• Enhance Stomp support to handle frames with NULL octets in the body [SPR-10818] #15444
• Provide support for pattern matching in MockMvcResultMatchers.redirectedUrl() [SPR-10789] #15415
• Use Tomcat 8's new instrumentable WebappClassLoader [SPR-10788] #15414
• add support for MockRestServiceServer to verify that a header does not exist [SPR-10771] #15397
• Add ability to create proxy around classes that has no default constructor [SPR-10594] #15223
• FilterType enum should have ASPECTJ, REGEX constants for AspectJTypeFilter, RegexPatternTypeFilter [SPR-10593] #15222
• RestTemplate does not support IPv6 raw address (as opposed to hostname) [SPR-10539] #15169
• MVC DispatcherServlet throw exception in noHandlerFound [SPR-10481] #15114
• enhance Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean to allow setting of (De)SerializerModifiers [SPR-10429] #15062
• Off by one error in StringUtils.parseLocaleString [SPR-10364] #14996
• Allow @ControllerAdvice to be cofigured with a join point to target a subset of controller [SPR-10222] #14855
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter should deal with the If-Match HTTP Header [SPR-10164] #14797
• Autowiring of generic types [SPR-9965] #14599
• Provide mechanism for creating links to controllers and controller methods [SPR-8826] #13468
• Add @PropertySources annotation and support ignoreResourceNotFound [SPR-8371] #13018
• Support Servlet 3.1 (JSR-340) [SPR-8193] #12842
• Provide meta-annotation support for test-related annotations [SPR-7827] #12483
• Convert TestContext to interface and introduce default implementation [SPR-7692] #12348
• Migrate Grails BeanBuilder into Spring Core [SPR-7123] #11783
• Create CGLIB proxy instances honoring tags [SPR-3150] #7836
• Spring i18n needs TimeZone resolution as well as Locale resolution. [SPR-1528] #6227

🪲 Bug Fixes

• HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory method signature changes prevent user code from supporting Spring 3 and Spring 4 simultaneously [SPR-11053] #15680
• GenericTypeResolver.resolveTypeArguments(…) returns Object for raw types [SPR-11052] #15679
• Spring web depends on a beta release of Apache HTTP Client [SPR-11050] #15677
• NPE in MatchAlwaysTransactionAttributeSource [SPR-11048] #15675
• Unable to autowire concrete classes when java config methods return interface [SPR-11046] #15673
• ResolvableType can throw NPE when resolving Generic Arrays [SPR-11044] #15672
• NPE in ResolvableType.hasUnresolvableGenerics [SPR-11034] #15662
• Potential NPE on result of GenericTypeResolver.resolveTypeArguments [SPR-11030] #15658
• groovy-all should not be a mandatory dependency [SPR-11028] #15656
• "Illegal instant due to time zone offset transition" when binding with LocalDate (joda) in Controller handler [SPR-11014] #15642
• TypeDescriptor can no longer be programatically created with null generics [SPR-11006] #15634
• Autowiring of types narrows with generics does not work [SPR-11004] #15632
• Generic autowiring should support wiring of components with unresolved type variables [SPR-10993] #15621
• Regression with detecting nested components [SPR-10970] #15598
• HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.convertHttpInvokerAccessException implementation throws the RemoteAccessException instead of return it [SPR-10965] #15593
• Keep "cookie_needed" property in SockJS service enabled by default [SPR-10939] #15567
• Server sends SEND stomp frames back to the client instead of MESSAGE frames [SPR-10930] #15558
• getSockJsPath() method in org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.support.AbstractSockJsService returns wrong path [SPR-10923] #15551
• RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.createDataBinderFactory has a return type of ServletRequestDataBinderFactory [SPR-10920] #15548
• @RestController causing errors [SPR-10905] [#15533](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/...

4.0 M3 Release

⭐ New Features

• Can @Profile be @Documented [SPR-10967] #15595
• Add support for sending Ping and Pong WebSocket messages as well as for handling incoming Pong messages [SPR-10876] #15503
• Implement ChannelInterceptor-like feature for SockJS/WebSocket/STOMP messages [SPR-10866] #15493
• Add client and server-side WebSocket container configuration support [SPR-10844] #15471
• MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup() ignores controller path mapping URIs' placeholders [SPR-10825] #15451
• Untranslated Hibernate exception [SPR-10815] #15441
• Add @RestController to stereotype a controller that is going to be used for @ResponseBody rendering [SPR-10814] #15440
• Stereotype @Profiles not merged [SPR-10812] #15438
• Make it possible to configure serialization inclusion for Jackson ObjectMapper [SPR-10810] #15436
• Make the use of JSON library in the SockJS service configurable [SPR-10800] #15426
• Add support for discovering JPA 2.1 @Converter during scanning [SPR-10799] #15425
• Allow headers to be set on WebSocketConnectionManager [SPR-10796] #15422
• Add LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean missing methods to easily replace elements in persistence.xml [SPR-10764] #15390
• Request streaming for HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory [SPR-10728] #15356
• Add recovery-interval to jms:listener-container [SPR-10711] #15339
• Make UriComponents.UriTemplateVariables public [SPR-10647] #15275
• Allow BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor to register other BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessors [SPR-10630] #15258
• Provide access to attributes from the handshake HTTP session [SPR-10624] #15252
• Allow @Bean to override a dynamically registered bean definition [SPR-10607] #15236
• New @Description annotation to add description field to BeanDefinition when using annotation based configuration [SPR-10583] #15212
• @RequestMapping inheritance not worked as expect with a dot path [SPR-10554] #15185
• Assign lowest priority to "/**" in AntPathMatcher [SPR-10550] #15181
• MarshallingHttpMessageConverter#supports() is not symmetric [SPR-10463] #15096
• Add time zone support to the @Scheduled annotation for cron jobs [SPR-10456] #15089
• UriComponentsBuilder should provide a way to remove the extension from the path [SPR-10272] #14906
• Allow usage of @Lazy on injection points [SPR-10353] #14896
• Allow meta-annotations to override attributes from their parent [SPR-10181] #14814
• Comprehensive support for Java 8 / OpenJDK 8 [SPR-9639] #14273
• Support for WebSocket messaging [SPR-9356] #13994
• Support an asynchronous API for RestTemplate [SPR-8804] #13446
• Make org.springframework.http.MediaType Serializable [SPR-8738] #13380
• Doc: gzip support in RestTemplate [SPR-7874] #12531
• Autowiring should support ordered collection driven by Order annotation or Ordered interface [SPR-5574] #10245

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Stomp passcode should not be included in plain text in log messages [SPR-10868] #15495
• WebSocket support on Jetty always uses SockJS HTTP fallbacks [SPR-10861] #15488
• NoSuchMethodError: MediaType.isCompatibleWithMediaType;) [SPR-10860] #15487
• Spring no longer recognizes mapped classes [SPR-10826] #15452
• NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.util.MultiValueMap.getOrDefault(Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;) [SPR-10807] #15433
• SpringConfigurator uses ListableBeanFactory method which is documented to be slow for EVERY new WebSocket connection [SPR-10605] #15234

📔 Documentation

• Modify Spring 4.x documentation to reflect JSR-349 support [SPR-10813] #15439

3.2.4 Release

⭐ New Features

• Fix potential security risk when using Spring OXM [SPR-10806] #15432
• Fix SimpleJdbc{Call,Insert} Javadoc [SPR-10792] #15418
• Make HttpHeaders getFirstDate(String headerName) and setDate(String headerName, long date) methods as public [SPR-10713] #15341
• WebAsyncUtils could/should cache the reference to StandardServletAsyncWebRequest's constructor [SPR-10673] #15301
• Configurable JSON prefix on MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter and MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter [SPR-10627] #15255
• Add ability to check that attribute does not exist in Spring MVC test framework [SPR-10509] #15141
• XStreamMarshaller - no way to set a MapperWrapper on XStream [SPR-10421] #15054
• Unnecessary blocking in DelegatingFilterProxy [SPR-10413] #15046

🪲 Bug Fixes

• ResourceHttpRequestHandler always logs warning [SPR-10780] #15407
• UriComponentsBuilder should be case-insensitive when parsing URL scheme names [SPR-10779] #15406
• Spring + Quartz 2.2.0 Integration is Inconsistent [SPR-10775] #15401
• is read incorrectly in PersistenceUnitReader [SPR-10767] #15393
• JDBC Connection is not released due to incorrectly defined catch [SPR-10755] #15381
• setPrefixJson don't work in org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJackson2JsonView and org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView [SPR-10752] #15378
• spring-instrument has unused dependency on spring-core [SPR-10732] #15360
• spring-instrument is lacking Java 7 instrumentation manifest attributes [SPR-10731] #15359
• method demarcated with @Async isn't executed when precompiled [SPR-10715] #15343
• ClassPathJaxb2TypeScanner which scans packagesToScan for Jaxb2Marshaller does not scan for @XmlRegistry annotation [SPR-10714] #15342
• Spring 3.2.2 AOP has increased memory usage [SPR-10709] #15337
• ServletUriComponentsBuilder doesn't work if X-Forwarded-Host is in host:port format [SPR-10701] #15329
• ${} placeholders are not resolved in @ImportResource [SPR-10686] #15314
• ContentNegotiatingViewResolver does not select any views if no content types are requested [SPR-10683] #15311
• BeanFactory.getBeansWithAnnotation() should not consider abstract beans [SPR-10663] #15291
• Cached MethodExecutor invokes wrong method [SPR-10657] #15285
• Missing RmiInvocationWrapperRTD.xml (build problem?) [SPR-10649] #15277
• HttpHeaders should be tolerant with bad date-aware headers as it said in the RFC 2616 [SPR-10648] #15276
• ConfigurationClassPostProcessor should be Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE [SPR-10645] #15273
• Invocation of @Async service fails [SPR-10636] #15264
• TypeDescriptor must be Serializable [SPR-10631] #15259
• UnionMethodMatcher and ClassFilterAwareUnionMethodMatcher have broken eqauls. [SPR-10604] #15233
• Rename HttpHeaders#getIfNotModifiedSince() to getIfModifiedSince() to avoid confusing [SPR-10600] #15229
• ClassCastException on meta @Components with not Spring value [SPR-10580] #15209
• Revert change for SPR-10402 that allowed treating empty values as missing values [SPR-10578] #15207
• Spring3.2 bug context:property-placeholder nested search property appear java.lang.StackOverflowError [SPR-10549] #15180
• Async does not work anymore when switching from 3.2 to 3.2.2 [SPR-10492] #15125

📔 Documentation

• Documentation Error: rollbackForClassname is listed, should be rollbackForClassName (notice UPPERcase N) [SPR-10754] #15380
• SQL syntax error in jdbcTemplate update example [SPR-10625] #15253
• Doc: JMS CachingConnectionFactory incompatible with DefaultMessageListenerContainer in some circumstances [SPR-10581] #15210

4.0 M2 Release

⭐ New Features

• XPath expressions in Spring MVC Test fail when using the default namespace [SPR-10704] #15332
• Documentation in 17.15.3 Configuring Interceptors incorrect [SPR-10670] #15298
• Make #result available for SpEL in @CachePut key attribute [SPR-10664] #15292
• Add expected header name to assert message for HeaderResultMatchers [SPR-10659] #15287
• @CacheEvict key should allow referencing return value [SPR-10658] #15286
• Typo in ModelAndViewMethodReturnValueHandler's JavaDoc [SPR-10650] #15278
• Ensure that method and requestURI fields are non-null in MockHttpServletRequest [SPR-10643] #15271
• Introduce deleteFromTableWhere() in abstract transactional base classes in the TestContext Framework [SPR-10639] #15267
• Introduce java.nio.file.Path based Resource implementation [SPR-10608] #15237
• Make result-data accessible in onCompletion Event in DeferredResult [SPR-10603] #15232
• ImportSelector and ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrar should be able to implement EnvironmentAware [SPR-10602] #15231
• SimpleCommandLinePropertySource could be enumerable [SPR-10579] #15208
• Support for @Conditional @Configuration [SPR-10534] #15164
• Create MockHttpServletRequestBuilder.accept(String ...mediatTypes) overload. [SPR-10390] #15023
• Introduce ActiveProfilesResolver in the TestContext framework [SPR-10338] #14972
• Make form method accessible to RequestDataValueProcessor [SPR-10041] #14675
• Support implicit ports for MockHttpServletRequest.getRequestURL() [SPR-9726] #14360
• Add spring:argument subtag for spring:message [SPR-9678] #14312
• Introduce TCP & UDP server port scanning utility [SPR-8032] #12687
• MockHttpSession methods should throw IllegalStateException if invalid [SPR-7659] #12315

🪲 Bug Fixes

• PathResourceTests fail on Windows [SPR-10770] #15396
• Ensure ParamTag release resources [SPR-10769] #15395
• Turn down logging in DefaultListableBeanFactory [SPR-10758] #15384
• Could not build from sources [SPR-10751] #15377
• WebSocketHttpRequestHandler constructor doesn't use handshakeHandler [SPR-10721] #15349
• Regression in SharedEntityManagerCreator [SPR-10678] #15306
• Include all SQL statements in batch fail exception [SPR-10677] #15305
• Self-injection in configuration class hierarchies broken [SPR-10668] #15296
• JdbcTemplate.queryForObject throws TypeMismatchDataAccessException when used per the reference manual [SPR-10651] #15279
• Support @Configuration class parsing fallback to ASM [SPR-10646] #15274
• AbstractMethodError thrown within MethodValidationInterceptor [SPR-10644] #15272
• JsonpTransportHandler read message header problem [SPR-10621] #15249
• Do not consider all @Component instances as @Configuration candidates [SPR-10609] #15238
• Documentation issues in @RequestMapping [SPR-10587] #15216
• Fix getters to match setters in RequestMappingHandlerAdapter [SPR-10519] #15150
• view/ JSP compilation exceptions, not logged from JstlView or DispatcherServlet. [SPR-10340] #14974
• Cacheable key collision with DefaultKeyGenerator [SPR-10237] #14870

3.2.3 Release

⭐ New Features

• Enforce JDK version on CI server [SPR-10569] #15198
• Configurable JSON prefix on MappingJackson2JsonView and MappingJacksonJsonView [SPR-10567] #15196
• Small clarification to CronTrigger javadoc [SPR-10556] #15186
• AnnotationAwareOrderComparator does not work on proxied classes [SPR-10514] #15145
• Improve defaulting of media types via ContentNegotiationManager [SPR-10513] #15144
• Jaxb2Marshaller doesn't need to depend on ResourceLoaderAware and thus spring-context [SPR-10512] #15143
• No way to ask MethodReference for its private field 'name' [SPR-10422] #15055
• Make implementations of PreparedStatementSetter public, not package-private [SPR-10375] #15008
• OXM Jaxb2Unmarshaller to support non-root elements [SPR-10282] #14916

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Large number of StandardEnvironment objects are initialised during startup. Visible in the logs at DEBUG level. [SPR-10568] #15197
• Cannot instantiate bean in Spring when using annotations and when it extends generic abstract class compiled to java 1.4 byte code [SPR-10559] #15189
• BeanPropertyRowMapper underscoreName [SPR-10547] #15177
• Loading @Import(ChildConfig) or EnclosingConfig.ChildConfig and then ChildConfig does not load beans on ParentConfig [SPR-10546] #15176
• Lookup of beans of type fails for factory beans if type prediction is used. [SPR-10517] #15148
• AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType returns parent type instead of class="" value [SPR-10507] #15139
• Deadlocks with DeferredResult timeout handling on Tomcat [SPR-10485] #15118
• ServletContextResourcePatternResolver fails to resolve resources when an app is using a foo#bar.war filename [SPR-10471] #15104
• cannot delete file once resttemplate has done a multipart postforentity with the said file [SPR-10460] #15093
• NPE in the ContextLoader#customizeContext on building Assert.isAssignable message [SPR-10449] #15082
• Sporadic deadlocks while using servlet scoped beans from another thread. [SPR-10436] #15069
• A URI with URL path parameters causes IllegalStateException [SPR-10427] #15060
• PropertyEditor registered through @ControllerAdvice will not be superseded by local one. [SPR-10419] #15052
• Request @RequestParam not enforced with empty values [SPR-10402] #15035
• spring3.2 matrix variable url match problem [SPR-10398] #15031
• PooledConnection has already been closed exception with Hibernate 4.2 [SPR-10395] #15028
• Typo in Code Example [SPR-10394] #15027
• ReflectiveMethodResolver causes UnsupportedOperationException [SPR-10392] #15025
• Fix errors in Spring MVC Test server-side code examples [SPR-10389] #15022
• Remove default value of LifecycleGroup.lifecycleBeans [SPR-10388] #15021
• Ant Pattern Matching throws IllegalStateException for multiple RequestMapping values [SPR-10386] #15019
• JdbcTemplate cannot set null parameter with Oracle driver [SPR-10385] #15018
• Form tag prepending context/servlet path breaks use for portlets [SPR-10382] #15015
• Type detection fails for child bean if parent bean has been resolved before [SPR-10374] #15007
• JavaDoc generation reports warnings [SPR-10373] #15006
• Unnecessary check in PatternsRequestCondition.getMatchingPattern [SPR-10504] #14998

4.0 M1 Release

⭐ New Features

• Allow access to applied property sources from PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer [SPR-10545] #15175
• Make DefaultResourceLoader.ClassPathContextResource protected [SPR-10544] #15174
• Consider @Import classes as lite @Configuration [SPR-10533] #15163
• Filter source @Configuration with @ComponentScan [SPR-10531] #15161
• Support *Aware ImportSelectors [SPR-10530] #15160
• Add AnnotationConfigApplicationContext constructor for custom DefaultListableBeanFactory [SPR-10529] #15159
• Make SpringFactoriesLoader.loadFactoryNames method public [SPR-10528] #15158
• Cannot inject ServletContext into MockMultipartHttpServletRequest [SPR-10098] #14731
• Support for JTA 1.2 transaction annotation [SPR-9139] #13778
• Update EhCacheFactoryBean to support current releases (2.4.x) [SPR-8258] #12906
• Support Bean Validation 1.1 (JSR-349) [SPR-8199] #12848
• Support JMS 2.0 (JSR-343) [SPR-8197] #12846
• Support Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR-236) [SPR-8195] #12844
• Support JPA 2.1 (JSR-338) [SPR-8194] #12843

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Use of same @Configuration class across multiple ApplicationContexts is not threadsafe [SPR-10936] #15564
• Creating ApplicationContexts from multiple threads causes ConcurrentModificationException [SPR-10543] #15173
• Cannot configure validationMessageSource when using Hibernate 5 as validation implementation [SPR-10466] #15099
• Fix missing font for JasperReports tests on Linux [SPR-10438] #15071
• Concurrent creation of the same Configuration class in different contexts is not thread-safe [SPR-10307] #14941
• IllegalArgumentException initializing an application compiled with Java 8 [SPR-10292] #14926

3.2.2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Clarify DefaultLobHandler's applicability to Oracle 10g/11g [SPR-10339] #14973
• Introduce a pre-resolved target type in RootBeanDefinition [SPR-10335] #14969
• The JARs spring-test-3.2.1 and spring-webmvc-3.2.1 contain two MANIFEST.MF [SPR-10324] #14958
• DefaultJdoDialect does not support JDO 2.2 isolation levels [SPR-10323] #14957
• Replace examples using deprecated SimpleJdbcTemplate [SPR-10317] #14951
• Introduce JdbcTestUtils.deleteFromTableWhere method [SPR-10302] #14936
• Ability to set per-session entity interceptors removed from HibernateTransactionManager for Hibernate 4 [SPR-10301] #14935
• Share locale independent properties among several ResourceBundleMessageSources [SPR-10291] #14925
• In AnnotationSessionFactoryBean, be able to specify annotatedPackages and packagesToScan in one property [SPR-10288] #14922
• Log4jWebConfigurer only uses System properties/environment [SPR-10284] #14918
• StandaloneMockMvcBuilder interface is inconsistent [SPR-10279] #14913
• MockMvcBuilders' use of generics doesn't allow for chaining more than 2 calls [SPR-10277] #14911
• Assertion message unclear when expected and actual have same string representation [SPR-10275] #14909
• Resolve SQL errorCode from underlying SQLException [SPR-10260] #14893
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate and JdbcTemplate: consider deprecating queryFor* methods [SPR-10257] #14890
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate: add methods to simplify usage when no parameter is needed [SPR-10256] #14889
• No way to ask RealLiteral for original string (to parse into BigDecimal) [SPR-10248] #14881
• Cannot create relative URIs with UriComponents [SPR-10231] #14864
• DefaultMessageListenerContainer should expose an API to determine whether the consumer successfully connected to a topic/queue [SPR-10230] #14863
• Limit auto grow collection size when using SpEL [SPR-10229] #14862
• org.springframework.http.MediaType.parseMediaType should throw a better exception [SPR-10226] #14859
• Update documentation examples for scheduling to use SimpleTriggerFactoryBean instead of SimpleTriggerBean [SPR-10209] #14842
• Cleanup whitespace in *.aj and use AspectJ Annotations to prevent NoSuchMethodErrors [SPR-10208] #14841
• @RequestParam default value not set in certain cases [SPR-10180] #14813
• o.s.web.util.JavaScriptUtils.javaScriptEscape insufficiently escapes some characters [SPR-9983] #14617
• Support WebApplicationContext hierarchies in the TestContext Framework [SPR-9863] #14496
• Transparent authentication fails when POSTing to Kerberos web service using the Simple HTTP Client [SPR-9617] #14251
• Reference Documentation needs a chapter on using Gemfire as a CacheManager [SPR-9468] #14103
• SPEL: Error message is useless at helping developer resolve problem actual problem, EL1027E:(pos 4): Indexing into type ... [SPR-8876] #13517
• @Cachable condition should allow referencing return value [SPR-8871] #13512
• Hibernate Annotation scanner missing package-info.java [SPR-8589] #13233
• Update for Spring OXM Reference, including changes introduced in CastorMarshaller [SPR-8509] #13155
• @PreDestroy and @PostConstruct should be mentioned more prominently in container callback section [SPR-8493] #13139
• CastorMarshaller - marshaller and unmarshaller properties. [SPR-8470] #13116
• @Scheduled's int attributes do not allow for placeholder values [SPR-8067] #12722
• AnnotationSessionFactoryBean packagesToScan does not scan for annotations in package's package-info.java file [SPR-7748] #12404
• Make MappingJacksonJsonView fields protected to make extending it easier [SPR-7619] #12275
• Provide support for context hierarchies in the TestContext Framework [SPR-5613] #10284
• Performance improvement on AbstractCachingViewResolver [SPR-3145] #7831

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Configuration class implementing Provider interface throws StackOverflowError after upgrading to Java 7 [SPR-11830] #16449
• Thread-safety issue in RequestMappingHandlerAdapter causes NPE [SPR-10365] #14997
• UriComponentsBuilder.fromUriString(…) throws exception for empty fragment [SPR-10363] #14995
• SpringCompleteAutoloadTilesContainerFactory disables EL expressions [SPR-10361] #14993
• Scope of model attributes when including JSP [SPR-10360] #14992
• mvc:resources location attribute doesn't guarantee order [SPR-10355] #14987
• SpringValidationAdapter cannot handle disabled default constraint violation [SPR-10345] #14979
• Change in FrameworkServlet makes it impossible to use an alternative WebRequest instance for request processing [SPR-10342] #14976
• doOptions method of FrameworkServlet uses servlet 3.0 only method [SPR-10341] #14975
• MockServletContext always returns application/octet-stream for unknown filetypes or ContentNegotiationManager is not correct [SPR-10334] #14968
• StringToEnumConverterFactory fails to convert enums using classes from values [SPR-10329] #14963
• NPE while parsing an invalid indexer expression [SPR-10328] #14962
• By-type matching caches in DefaultListableBeanFactory should be cleared on registerSingleton [SPR-10326] #14960
• Broken UriComponents.equals() method [SPR-10313] #14947
• LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy causes exception in WebSphere with an Oracle database [SPR-10312] #14946
• Reference documentation declares inner beans being prototypes, which is wrong [SPR-10311] #14945
• AspectJ advisor always positioned behind an "old school" advisor [SPR-10309] #14943
• Invalid format media-type in Content-Type request header results in IllegalArgumentException when no handler matched [SPR-10308] #14942
• ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType [SPR-10304] #14938
• java.lang.IllegalStateException: getOutputStream() has already been called for this response [SPR-10293] #14927
• MockMvcRequestBuilders.fileUpload() cannot merge if defaultRequest is set [SPR-10280] #14914
• @Async executor ignored if decla...

3.2.1 Release

⭐ New Features

• distinguish "none found" from "several found" in NoSuchBeanDefinitionException [SPR-10194] #14827
• RequestMappingInfoHandlerMapping.handleNoMatch returns null instead of throwing an exception [SPR-10193] #14826
• Provide a means to ignore the character set in ContentResultMatchers.contentType(MediaType) [SPR-10165] #14798
• EntityManagerFactoryUtils.findEntityManagerFactory() does not search parent contexts if persistence unit name is unspecified [SPR-10160] #14793
• AnnotationAwareOrderComparator does not work on Class objects [SPR-10152] #14785
• Improve documentation regarding which @MVC annotations are required on interfaces when proxying [SPR-10132] #14765
• Add support for X-Forwarded-Host in ServletUriComponentsBuilder [SPR-10110] #14743
• Support SpEL in @initial-delay for task:scheduled [SPR-10102] #14735
• ContentNegotiationManagerFactoryBean does not provide default value for "parameterName" as stated in doc [SPR-10101] #14734
• Implement support of Jackson2 for MappingJacksonMessageConverter [SPR-10099] #14732
• Support configurable charset for ResourcePropertySource [SPR-10096] #14729
• Support OPTIONS method in the MVC Test framework [SPR-10093] #14726
• Detect split packages at build time [SPR-9990] #14624
• Use parameter names during MBeanInfo assembly [SPR-9985] #14619
• Allow customization of request mappings [SPR-9935] #14568
• ResourcePropertySource cannot load JDK 5 properties xml [SPR-9896] #14529
• Allow TypeDescriptor array construction [SPR-9792] #14425
• Infer "shutdown()" as destroy method for convenient EHCache setup using @Bean [SPR-9713] #14347
• AnnotationAwareOrderComparator.sort has very misleading syntax [SPR-9625] #14259
• WebApplicationInitializer with AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext parent gets reset to null by ContextLoaderListener [SPR-9591] #14225
• Relax jms:listener-container xsd:int attributes to xsd:string in order to allow for SpEL expressions [SPR-9553] #14187
• Improve documentation for validation and data binding [SPR-9437] #14073
• Improve support for registering Validator implementations in Spring MVC [SPR-9436] #14072
• Consistency between scheduling/concurrent factory beans, resulting in inheritance improvement [SPR-9435] #14071
• exposeAccessContext should also be available for JndiRmiClientInterceptor [SPR-9428] #14063
• Update reference documentation on handling 401 response in the RestTemplate [SPR-9367] #14004
• WebContentInterceptor.preHandle(request, response, handler), handler of type HandlerMethod not controller instance [SPR-9248] #13886
• Map "no default value for field" MySQL error code to DataIntegrityViolationException [SPR-9237] #13875
• SpringContextResourceAdapter does not fulfill whole JCA 1.5 contract [SPR-9162] #13800
• Request to switch off heading & trailing whitespaces trim of path segments in AntPathMatcher [SPR-8687] #13329
• Form tag should prepend the contextPath and servletPath if not present [SPR-8684] #13326
• EhCacheCacheManager throws assertion error for ehcache configuration with only default cache configured [SPR-7955] #12610
• @Primary and primary attribute of element are not considered for calls to getBean(Class) [SPR-7854] #12511
• BufferedImageHttpMessageConverter not using defaultContentType [SPR-7763] #12419
• Make ResponseStatusExceptionResolver handling of @ResponseStatus.reason internationalizable [SPR-6044] #10713
• ThreadPoolExecutor waitForTasksToCompleteOnShutdown doesn't work as expected [SPR-5387] #10060

🪲 Bug Fixes

• MBeanExporter/MBeanRegistrationSupport leaks ObjectNames in registeredBeans [SPR-10957] #15585
• HttpEntityMethodProcessor does not support HttpEntity/ResponseEntity subclasses [SPR-10207] #14840
• Support Date to String in JodaTimeConverters [SPR-10198] #14831
• ClassCastException while using completeAutoload in Tiles 3 [SPR-10195] #14828
• MockHttpServletRequest must not throw an exception on getParameter(null) [SPR-10192] #14825
• FormHttpMessageConverter#writePart NPE on 'partBody.getClass()' [SPR-10187] #14820
• UriComponents break UriTemplate serialization [SPR-10186] #14819
• NoSuchMethodError for Aspects [SPR-10178] #14811
• Attribute mode removed from annotation-driven definition in spring-task.xsd [SPR-10177] #14810
• AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor returns allSupportedMediaTypes with HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException [SPR-10175] #14808
• RequestMapping fileExtension filling interferes with registration of mapping methods [SPR-10173] #14806
• Consider bridge methods in SpEL properties [SPR-10162] #14795
• spring-aspects is compiled with JDK 1.7 compatibility [SPR-10161] #14794
• Building 3.2.x branch with Java 7 fails - api depends on asmRepackJar [SPR-10151] #14784
• Improve exceptions for multi-operand expressions [SPR-10146] #14779
• NPE in PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor when instantiate a @Configurable Bean [SPR-10144] #14777
• MatrixVariable values are not decoded [SPR-10140] #14773
• error with tomcat 6 and spring 3.2 [SPR-10139] #14772
• HttpServletBean requires overly narrow Environment type [SPR-10138] #14771
• MessageSourceResourceBundle.containsKey throws NullPointerException [SPR-10136] #14769
• SpEL support for static finals on interfaces [SPR-10125] #14758
• Fix SpEL JavaBean compliance for setters [SPR-10122] #14755
• ContentNegotiatingViewResolver - Upgrade from 3.1 to 3.2 causes ClassCastException [SPR-10119] #14752
• Fix GenericConversionService search algorithm [SPR-10116] #14749
• Regression in static setter method support [SPR-10115] #14748
• Processing java.math.BigDecimal via Spring's ExtendedBeanInfo fails sporadically [SPR-10111] #14744
• JMSTemplate.receive() and receiveSelected() don't use "receiveTimeout" property if in a transactio...

3.1.4 Release

⭐ New Features

• EhCacheCacheManager throws assertion error for ehcache configuration with only default cache configured [SPR-7955] #12610
• SpringContextResourceAdapter does not fulfill whole JCA 1.5 contract [SPR-9162] #13800
• exposeAccessContext should also be available for JndiRmiClientInterceptor [SPR-9428] #14063
• WebApplicationInitializer with AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext parent gets reset to null by ContextLoaderListener [SPR-9591] #14225
• ResourcePropertySource cannot load JDK 5 properties xml [SPR-9896] #14529
• Concurrent Consumers Not Allowed for Durable Subscription [SPR-10037] #14671
• Unnecessary reading of java.lang.Object input stream [SPR-10058] #14691
• Implement support of Jackson2 for MappingJacksonMessageConverter [SPR-10099] #14732
• EntityManagerFactoryUtils.findEntityManagerFactory() does not search parent contexts if persistence unit name is unspecified [SPR-10160] #14793
• RequestMappingInfoHandlerMapping.handleNoMatch returns null instead of throwing an exception [SPR-10193] #14826
• Remove xsd versions from reference samples [SPR-10010] #14644
• Use ExtendedBeanInfo on an as-needed basis only [SPR-9723] #14357
• Documentation update regarding aspectjrt and aspectjweaver jars usage [SPR-8896] #13537

🪲 Bug Fixes

• MemoryLeak in Cglib2AopProxy.ProxyCallbackFilter [SPR-8008] #12663
• CachedIntrospectionResults cannot be cleared for null class loaders [SPR-9189] #13827
• MimeMessageHelper does not handle attachment file name encoding [SPR-9258] #13896
• BridgeMethodResolver throws exception when trying to find bridged method if method is declired in interface or it is abstract [SPR-9330] #13968
• FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory's instance variable become enlarged whenever call create method. [SPR-9389] #14025
• LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer doesn't support bridged methods [SPR-9429] #14065
• MBeanExporter#destroy logs warnings about explicitly unregistered mbeans [SPR-9451] #14086
• SimpleDriverDataSource doesn't use the connectionProperties specified [SPR-9461] #14096
• Add migration instructions regarding component-scanning against "org" base package [SPR-9843] #14476
• MockHttpServletResponse.getHeaderNames is incompatible with Servlet 3.0 [SPR-9885] #14518
• ContextLoader incorrectly refreshes already refreshed context [SPR-9996] #14630
• SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor not closing ApplicationContext after EJB initialisation exception [SPR-10013] #14647
• AbstractCachingViewResolver - caching redirect views leads to memory leak [SPR-10065] #14698
• EclipseLink marks transaction RollbackOnly when applying timeout for "nonread" queries [SPR-10068] #14701
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate for "insert / select" clause, set NULL value causes JConnect 7 (Sybase) problem - java.io.IOException: JZ0SL: Unsupported SQL type 0. - Affects 3.1.3.RELEASE, works in 3.1.1.RELEASE [SPR-10084] #14717
• HierarchicalUriComponents.equals() incorrectly returns false when other object is not an instance of OpaqueUriComponents [SPR-10088] #14721
• SpEl bug while reading boolean fields [SPR-10091] #14724
• DMLC: JMS resources are never cleared under certain conditions [SPR-10092] #14725
• JMSTemplate.receive() and receiveSelected() don't use "receiveTimeout" property if in a transaction [SPR-10109] #14742
• Processing java.math.BigDecimal via Spring's ExtendedBeanInfo fails sporadically [SPR-10111] #14744
• SpEL support for static finals on interfaces [SPR-10125] #14758
• MessageSourceResourceBundle.containsKey throws NullPointerException [SPR-10136] #14769
• Consider bridge methods in SpEL properties [SPR-10162] #14795
• AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor returns allSupportedMediaTypes with HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException [SPR-10175] #14808
• Attribute mode removed from annotation-driven definition in spring-task.xsd [SPR-10177] #14810
• FormHttpMessageConverter#writePart NPE on 'partBody.getClass()' [SPR-10187] #14820
• MockHttpServletRequest must not throw an exception on getParameter(null) [SPR-10192] #14825
• HttpEntityMethodProcessor does not support HttpEntity/ResponseEntity subclasses [SPR-10207] #14840
• MBeanExporter/MBeanRegistrationSupport leaks ObjectNames in registeredBeans [SPR-10957] #15585
• Handling of BeanInfo broken [SPR-10040] #14674
• Deadlock in DefaultListableBeanFactory/DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry [SPR-10020] #14654
• ReflectivePropertyAccessor should not consider bridge methods [SPR-9994] #14628
• IntrospectionException: type mismatch between indexed and non-indexed methods [SPR-9943] #14576
• Prevent duplicate @Import processing and ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrar invocation [SPR-9925] #14558
• Ensure LineNumberReader is always closed in ResourceDatabasePopulator [SPR-9912] #14545
• ExtendedBeanInfo exception - java.beans.IntrospectionException [SPR-9702] #14336
• Deadlock between DefaultListableBeanFactory and DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry, perhaps due to lazily-instantiated aspect [SPR-7718] #12374

📔 Documentation

• Doc: Bad snippet for CompositeCacheManager [SPR-9064] #13703
• Error in doc on JCA CCI - ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter [SPR-9466] #14101
• Example shows deprecated ScheduledTimerTask [SPR-10050] #14683
• Community Download site mentioned in the docs doesn't work [SPR-10171] #14804
• Fix castor website [SPR-10189] #14822
• Backport "Documentation update regarding aspectjrt and aspectjweaver jars usage" [SPR-10009] #14643

3.2 GA Release

⭐ New Features

• Support external Javadoc links [SPR-10078] #14711
• Support comments within SQL statements in ResourceDatabasePopulator [SPR-10075] #14708
• Make DeferredResult extensible [SPR-10059] #14692
• Unnecessary reading of java.lang.Object input stream [SPR-10058] #14691
• FormHttpMessageConverter should have a MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter in its partConverters [SPR-10055] #14688
• Make it easier to integrate Tiles 3 with Spring MVC [SPR-10054] #14687
• Add hook for before concurrent handling [SPR-10052] #14685
• Rename MvcAsyncTask to WebAsyncTask [SPR-10051] #14684
• Concurrent Consumers Not Allowed for Durable Subscription [SPR-10037] #14671
• SpEL performance [SPR-10035] #14669
• Support comments within SQL statements in JdbcTestUtils [SPR-9982] #14616
• Possibility to disable WebApplicationInitializer [SPR-9977] #14611
• Eclipse .classpath exports optional and provided dependencies [SPR-9656] #14290
• Setting default charset in StringHttpMessageConverter [SPR-7904] #12559

🪲 Bug Fixes

• DMLC: JMS resources are never cleared under certain conditions [SPR-10092] #14725
• SpEl bug while reading boolean fields [SPR-10091] #14724
• HierarchicalUriComponents.equals() incorrectly returns false when other object is not an instance of OpaqueUriComponents [SPR-10088] #14721
• Replace SLF4J with ACL in TilesConfigurer for Tiles 3 [SPR-10077] #14710
• POM of spring-aspects should have a dependency on aspectjweaver and not aspectjrt [SPR-10072] #14705
• Tests in spring-test-mvc fail to execute in Eclipse [SPR-10070] #14703
• EclipseLink marks transaction RollbackOnly when applying timeout for "nonread" queries [SPR-10068] #14701
• AbstractCachingViewResolver - caching redirect views leads to memory leak [SPR-10065] #14698
• 404 error when working with .htm servlet-mapping [SPR-10061] #14694
• StandaloneMockMvcBuilder's setHandlerExceptionResolvers does not return the builder [SPR-10053] #14686
• MVC test support breaks the contract of ServletRequestAttributes.getRequest() [SPR-10025] #14659
• AbstractBeanFactory#markBeanAsCreated performance issue due to lock contention [SPR-9780] #14414
• AbstractAutoProxyCreator and RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor synchronized HashSet locking bottleneck [SPR-9711] #14345
• MemoryLeak in Cglib2AopProxy.ProxyCallbackFilter [SPR-8008] #12663

📔 Documentation

• Example shows deprecated ScheduledTimerTask [SPR-10050] #14683
• Document new testing features in the "New in Spring 3.2" section of the reference manual [SPR-9941] #14574
• Document WebApplicationContext support in the TestContext Framework [SPR-9864] #14497
• Document which functionality gets implicitly activated by <context:component-scan /> [SPR-9808] #14441