v6.1.11

⭐ New Features

• Ensure varargs component type for MethodHandle is not null in SpEL's ReflectionHelper #33193
• Confusing WebClient exception message in case of Reactor-Netty PrematureCloseException during response #33127
• Include the bean name in the exception when an invalid factoryBeanObjectType attribute is found #33117
• Use error handler for reactive cache aspect #33073
• getTypeForFactoryMethod should catch NoClassDefFoundError #33075

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SpEL cannot invoke varargs MethodHandle function with an array #33191
• SpEL cannot invoke varargs MethodHandle function with zero variable arguments #33190
• Nested bean instance supplier invocation does not retain previous factory method #33180
• DefaultErrorResponseBuilder does not implement headers(Consumer) #33156
• Fix adaptation of violations on Set method parameter #33150
• Web controller call with invalid body resulting in 500 instead of 400 when using kotlinx-serialization #33138
• "file:." cannot be resolved to java.nio.file.Path (and plain "." value resolves to classpath root) #33124
• Mockito mock falsely initialized as CGLIB proxy with AspectJ aspect #33113
• Fix ClassCastException from return value validation with proxy when adaptConstraintViolations=true #33105
• Spring coroutines AOP is not compatible with @Transactional #33095
• ReactorClientHttpConnector creates new HttpClient for every request #33093
• Trace and Span IDs are no longer propagated RequestBodyAdvice beans #33091
• Early LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean initialization fails in case of null bean definition #33082
• ReactorNettyClientRequest.convertException should include original exception if cause is null #33080
• SpEL incorrectly splits string arguments by comma for Object... varargs method #33013
• ProtobufMessageConverter fails to parse JSON payload if byte array is used #27408

📔 Documentation

• Harmonize phrasing in URI Encoding section #33166
• Document that ModelMap is not a supported argument type in WebFlux #33107
• Example in Method Injection section of Spring Framework documentation refers to wrong bean names #33096
• Resource writer doesn't consider subclasses of InputStreamResource for content length bypass #33089
• Improve documentation regarding encoding in FreeMarker support #33071
• Exception for validation failure in WebFlux does not match the documentation #33061

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.24 #33177
• Upgrade to Kotlin Serialization 1.6.3 #33175
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.8 #33168
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.8 #33169

❤️ Contributors

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

@TAKETODAY, @hunhee98, @imvtsl, @snussbaumer, and @zizare