v6.0.4

⭐ New Features

• Add native support for @Convert on JPA entities #29771
• @RequestPart dto not configured for reflection in aot #29749
• Avoid wasted memory on empty maps and sets #29742
• Compatibility with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #29736
• Add Kotlin DSL support for MockMVC andExpectAll #29727
• Add ExecutingResponseCreator to delegate request and response #29721
• JmsTemplate.convertAndSend throws NullPointerException during shutdown #29706
• Extract ResourceEntityResolver HTTPS schema resolution fallback #29697
• @Configuration classes with Kotlin in native-image are broken #29663
• Introduce Kotlin DSL for ResultActions.andExpectAll() #27317

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ResourceHandlers cannot resolve static resources with certain wildcard patterns #29712
• Conflict on insert gets translated to DataIntegrityViolationException instead of DuplicateKeyException in Spring 6 #29699

📔 Documentation

• fix typo in core-aot.adoc #29788
• Polish #29727: Mention Kotlin andExpectAll in reference manual #29766
• Update Jakarta Mail info in ref docs #29707
• Trigger/TriggerContext reference documentation outdated #29702
• Improve documentation for literals in SpEL expressions #29700
• Small fixes and improvements to the reference documentation #29694
• Fix manipulating property sources example in Javadoc for ConfigurableEnvironment #29693

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.3 #29802
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.2 #29797

❤️ Contributors

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

@Dunemaster, @IDJack, @diguage, @izeye, and @quim3ra

v5.3.25

⭐ New Features

• JmsTemplate.convertAndSend throws NullPointerException during shutdown #29719
• Optimize object creation in RequestMappingHandlerMapping#handleNoMatch #29667
• Add title to SockJS iFrames for accessibility compliance #29596

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ResourceHandlers cannot resolve static resources with certain wildcard patterns #29716
• AnnotatedElementUtils.findMergedRepeatableAnnotations does not fetch results when other attributes exist for container annotation #29686
• BeanWrapperImpl NPE in setWrappedInstance after invoking getPropertyValue (with SimpleBeanInfoFactory) #29684
• SpEL ConstructorReference does not generate AST representation of arrays #29666
• SpEL: Two double quotes are replaced by one double quote in single quoted String literal (and vice versa) #29653
• SpEL string literal misses single quotation marks in toStringAST() #29652
• 500 error from WebFlux when parsing Content-Type leads to InvalidMediaTypeException #29637
• WebMvcConfigurationSupport should not catch Throwable for SourceHttpMessageConverter #29537

📔 Documentation

• Update Jakarta Mail info in ref docs #29708
• Improve documentation for literals in SpEL expressions #29701
• Fix some typos in Kotlin WebClient example code #29542
• Fix link to Bean Utils Light Library in BeanUtils Javadoc #29536
• Fix link to WebFlux section in reference manual #29526
• Link to Spring WebFlux section is broken #29517

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.27 #29798

v6.0.3

⭐ New Features

• Throw PessimisticLockingFailureException/CannotAcquireLockException instead of plain ConcurrencyFailureException #29675
• Introduce additional constructors in MockClientHttpRequest and MockClientHttpResponse #29670
• Fall back to JdkClientHttpConnector as ClientHttpConnector #29645
• Optimize object creation in RequestMappingHandlerMapping#handleNoMatch #29634
• Align multipart codecs on client and server #29630
• Deprecate "application/graphql+json" media type after spec changes #29617
• HTTP interface client does not call FormHttpMessageWriter when writing form data #29615
• ProblemDetail doesn't override the equals method #29606
• Add title to SockJS iFrames for accessibility compliance #29594
• Forbid loading of a test's ApplicationContext in AOT mode if AOT processing failed #29579
• Deprecate JettyWebSocketClient in favor of StandardWebSocketClient #29576
• Improve options to expose MessageSource formatted errors for a ProblemDetail response #29574
• Make @ModelAttribute and @InitBinder annotations @Reflective #29572
• Update BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar to support properties on records #29571

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Cannot use WebDAV methods in Spring MVC 6.0 anymore #29689
• AnnotatedElementUtils.findMergedRepeatableAnnotations does not fetch results when other attributes exist in container annotation #29685
• BeanWrapperImpl NPE in setWrappedInstance after invoking getPropertyValue #29681
• SpEL ConstructorReference does not generate AST representation of arrays #29665
• NullPointerException in BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar for anonymous classes #29657
• DataBufferInputStream violates InputStream contract #29642
• Component scanning no longer uses component index for @Named, @ManagedBean, and other Jakarta annotations #29641
• Fix canWrite in PartHttpMessageWriter #29631
• NoHandlerFoundException mistakenly returns request headers from ErrorResponse#getHeaders #29626
• URI override for @HttpExchange doesn't work if there are both URI and @PathVariable method parameters #29624
• Unnecessary parameter name introspection for constructor-arg resolution (leading to LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer warnings) #29612
• Set detail from reason in both constructors of ResponseStatusException #29608
• SpEL string literal misses single quotation marks in toStringAST() #29604
• AOT code generation fails for bean of type boolean #29598
• request-scoped bean with @Lazy fails in native image (due to missing detection of CGLIB lazy resolution proxies) #29584
• 500 error from WebFlux when parsing Content-Type leads to InvalidMediaTypeException #29565
• ConcurrentLruCache implementation is using too much heap memory #29520
• Duplicate key violation gets translated to DataIntegrityViolationException instead of DuplicateKeyException in Spring 6 #29511
• SpEL: Two double quotes are replaced by one double quote in single quoted String literal (and vice versa) #28356

📔 Documentation

• Fix ErrorResponse#type documentation #29632
• Fix typo in observability documentation #29590
• Consistent documentation references to Jakarta WebSocket (2.1) #29581
• Unrendered asciidoc headings in reference documentation #29569
• Document observability support #29524

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Apache HttpClient 5.2 #29627
• Upgrade to Gradle 7.6 #29583
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.2 #29678
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.1 #29679

❤️ Contributors

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

@Aashay-Chapatwala, @CoderYellow, @ShenFeng312, @Spark61, @divcon, @izeye, @koo-taejin, @mdeinum, @mhalbritter, @quaff, and @singhbaljit

v6.0.2

⭐ New Features

• Rely on standard parameter name resolution in Bean Validation 3.0 #29566

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ResponseStatusException does not use the reason to set the "detail" field #29567
• LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer logs many warnings with Hibernate validation #29563

📔 Documentation

• org.springframework.web.multipart.commons not found #29562

v6.0.1

⭐ New Features

• Make SourceHttpMessageConverter optional #29535
• Deprecate LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer completely (avoiding its exposure in native images) #29531
• Make GeneratorStrategy.generate unreachable on native #29521
• Update LogAdapter to allow build-time code removal #29506

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Unhandled exceptions should mark Servlet observation outcome as error #29512

📔 Documentation

• Broken link in documentation section 6.10 #29554
• Fix Javadoc link text in BindingResult #29551
• Fix some typos in Kotlin WebClient example code #29538
• Fix link to Bean Utils Light Library in BeanUtils Javadoc #29534
• Fix link to WebFlux section in reference manual #29525
• Document RuntimeHints testing strategies #29523
• Reorganize and modularize the Testing chapter in the reference manual #29522
• Document switch to SQLExceptionSubclassTranslator in the upgrade guide #29518
• Update documentation to mention Java 17+ baseline #29514
• Link to Spring WebFlux section is broken #29513
• Update javadoc of Jackson-based decoders to reflect 2.14 baseline #29508
• Code example has callout from a different code example #29505
• Code listing callouts are displayed incorrectly in core-beans.adoc #29457
• Fix a syntax error in an XML listing in core-validation.adoc #29456

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.14.1 #29539
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.7.21 #29543

❤️ Contributors

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

@Encyclopedias, @andregasser, @davidcostanzo, @divcon, @jiangying000, @mdeinum, and @wilkinsona

v6.0.0

See What's New in Spring Framework 6.x and Upgrading to Spring Framework 6.x for upgrade instructions and details of new features.

⭐ New Features

• Avoid direct URL construction and URL equality checks #29486
• Simplify creating RFC 7807 responses from functional endpoints #29462
• Allow test classes to provide runtime hints via declarative mechanisms #29455

📔 Documentation

• Align javadoc of DefaultParameterNameDiscoverer with its behavior #29494
• Document AOT support in the TestContext framework #29482
• Document Ahead of Time processing in the reference guide #29350

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.0 #29465

❤️ Contributors

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

@ophiuhus and @wilkinsona

v5.3.24

⭐ New Features

• Avoid reflection for annotation method invocations #29448
• Avoid unnecessary allocations in StompDecoder#unescape #29443
• Avoid String allocations in MediaType.checkParameters #29428
• Reduce allocations caused by producible media types #29412
• Provide optional SimpleBeanInfoFactory for better introspection performance in 5.3.x #29330
• Filter out null WebSocket session attributes #29315
• Introduce TestSocketUtils as a replacement for SocketUtils #29132
• Avoid Commons Logging API for using LoggingCacheErrorHandler with a custom logger #28678

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Missing SessionFactory property (filter AutoCloseable from PropertyDescriptors) #29480
• SpEL ternary and Elvis expressions are missing enclosing parentheses in toStringAST() #29463
• If-Unmodified-Since header check removes Last-Modified and Etag headers from response, even if condition passes #29362
• Annotation searches fail for non-public repeatable annotations #29301
• AbstractBeanFactory's interaction with BeanPostProcessorCacheAwareList is not fully thread-safe #29299
• WebTestClient cannot assert custom HTTP status code #29283
• Body token not expected error when trying to upload a large multipart file #29227
• Avoid resizing of Maps created by CollectionUtils #29190
• DefaultWebClient logging sensitive information in URI #29148
• Fix SimpleMailMessage nullability annotations #29139
• Webflux fails to apply the rule for controller methods returning void to kotlin suspend functions returning Unit #27629
• Resource.isFile() return true when the resource path actually not exists #26707
• AnnotatedElementUtils does not find merged repeatable annotations on other repeatable annotations #20279

📔 Documentation

• Fix two typos in integration.adoc and webflux.adoc #29469
• Fix typo: "as describe in" -> "as described in" #29393
• Fix typos #29364
• Correct documentation for "other return values" from a web controller method #29349
• Document how to use WebJars without webjars-locator-core dependency #29322
• Update RestTemplate Javadoc with regards to setting interceptors on startup vs at runtime #29311
• Document how to switch to the default set of TestExecutionListeners #29281
• Document limitation of AopTestUtils.getUltimateTargetObject() regarding non-static TargetSource #29276
• Fix typo in WebSocket reference doc regarding subscription header #29228
• Fix MockMvc sample setup #29201

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.25 #29464

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

• @sangmin7648
• @izeye
• @dreis2211
• @catmug
• @inabajunmr
• @iamgd67
• @davidcostanzo
• @jprinet
• @stgerhardt
• @onobc
• @vpavic

v6.0.0-RC4

⭐ New Features

• Introduce DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer for SQL Server sequences #29447
• Introduce findAllAnnotationsOnBean variant on ListableBeanFactory #29446
• Introduce support for Jakarta WebSocket 2.1 #29436
• Allow @ControllerAdvice in WebFlux to handle exceptions before a handler is selected #22991

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Bean with unresolved generics do not use fallback algorithms with AOT #29454
• TomcatRequestUpgradeStrategy is not compatible with Tomcat 10.1 #29434
• Autowiring of a generic type produced by a factory bean fails after AOT processing #29385

📔 Documentation

• Reference PDF containing full docs not available #28451

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Revisit Servlet API baseline: Servlet 6.0 in the build, Servlet 5.0 compatibility at runtime #29435
• Upgrade to Context Propagation 1.0.0 #29442
• Upgrade to Jackson 2.14.0 #29351
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0 #29441

❤️ Contributors

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

@divcon, @fmbenhassine, @imkulwant, @izeye, and @wilkinsona

v6.0.0-RC3

⭐ New Features

• Support @RequestPart arguments for @HttpExchange methods #29420
• Processing of charset in Content-Type Header not case-insensitive #29416
• Allow for external customization and i8n of the "title" of an RFC 7807 response #29407
• Automatically register directories for registered resource hints #29403
• Allow registration of resource hint for root directory #29402
• Load ApplicationContextFailureProcessor implementations from spring.factories #29387
• Simplify mapping of custom exception to an RFC 7807 response in ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #29384
• Introduce SimpleValueStyler for use with ToStringCreator #29381
• Make DefaultValueStyler extensible #29380
• Introduce DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer for MariaDB #29379
• Handle case where ResponseEntity and ProblemDetail don't agree on the HTTP status to use #29378
• Provide AOT support for HttpServiceProxyFactory clients #29271
• Revise logging in the TestContext framework #29229

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Align server observation contextual names with OTel semantic conventions #29424
• Matching path pattern is not set in reactive ServerRequestObservationContext #29422
• PartEvent upload fails with JdkClientHttpConnector #29400
• Native image FileSystem should not be closed after classpath scanning #29397
• AOT processing loses bean aliases #29391
• WebClient and WebFlux Observation do not propagate context #29388
• HttpServiceProxyFactory raises IllegalStateException if created through the builder and declared as a bean #29376
• Multiple @ImportRuntimeHints in the type hierarchy should be supported #29361

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.14.0-rc3 #29405

❤️ Contributors

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

@fmbenhassine, @imkulwant, @izeye, and @marcingrzejszczak

v6.0.0-RC2

⭐ New Features

• Ensure classpath checks can be evaluated at build-time #29352
• Register reflection hints for JPA persistence callbacks #29348
• Check @RegisterReflectionForBinding specifies at least one class #29346
• Introduce builder API for AOT processor Settings #29341
• Allow in-progress AOT processing to be detected #29340
• Reorganize HTTP Observation types #29334
• Perform basic property determination without java.beans.Introspector #29320
• Add Kotlin data class components support to BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar #29316
• Switch HttpServiceFactory and RSocketServiceProxyFactory to builder model for programmatic configuration first #29296
• Introduce PreComputeFieldFeature based on GraalVM FieldValueTransformer API #29081
• Introduce SPI for processing ApplicationContext failures in the TestContext framework #28826
• SimpleEvaluationContext should disable array allocation #28808
• DateTimeFormatterRegistrar should fall back to ISO parsing by default #26985

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Avoid NPEs in DefaultServerRequestObservationConvention #29359
• ServerHttpObservationFilter can throw ClassCastException when NoopObservation used #29356
• ServerHttpObservationFilter should not overwrite response status #29353
• Possible regression in PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver #29333
• Jackson Decoder ignores method parameter information when resolving media types for custom ObjectMapper registration #29307
• Deprecation warning for composed Bean Validation constraint annotation #29206
• Code generation no longer supports a list of inner BeanDefinitions #29075
• NamedParameterUtils has broken square brackets handling #27925

📔 Documentation

• Refine @RegisterReflectionForBinding Javadoc #29345
• Mention @ImportRuntimeHints in RuntimeHintsRegistrar Javadoc #29337
• Add Javadoc since for SimpleInstantiationStrategy.setCurrentlyInvokedFactoryMethod() #29326
• Use correct RFC number for ProblemDetail support in Javadoc #29302

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Derby 10.16 #29344
• Upgrade to GraalVM 22.3.0 #29080
• Upgrade to Jackson 2.14.0-rc2 #29343

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

• @izeye
• @violetagg
• @quaff