v6.0.18

⭐ New Features

• Extract reusable method for URI validations #32441
• Allow UriTemplate to be built with an empty template #32437
• Refine \*HttpMessageConverter#getContentLength return value null safety #32333

🐞 Bug Fixes

• WebClient Observations are missing error #32399
• AopUtils.getMostSpecificMethod does not return original method for proxy-derived method anymore #32368
• Better protect against concurrent error handling for async requests #32341
• ContentCachingResponseWrapper no longer honors Content-Type and Content-Length #32321
• Hibernate native image support broken by HHH-17643 #32312

📔 Documentation

• Fix order of 2 sections in the Validation chapter of the reference manual #32409

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.17 #32421

v5.3.33

⭐ New Features

• Extract reusable method for URI validations #32442
• Allow UriTemplate to be built with an empty template #32438
• Refine *HttpMessageConverter#getContentLength return value null safety #32332

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AopUtils.getMostSpecificMethod does not return original method for proxy-derived method anymore #32369
• Better protect against concurrent error handling for async requests #32342
• Restore Jetty 10 compatibility in JettyClientHttpResponse #32337
• ContentCachingResponseWrapper no longer honors Content-Type and Content-Length #32322

📔 Documentation

• Build KDoc against 5.3.x Spring Framework Javadoc #32414

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.42 #32422

v6.1.4

⭐ New Features

• Add missing RequestPredicate variants in coRouter #32256
• Adapt ConcurrencyThrottleSupport to use ReentrantLock for better virtual thread support #32251
• Create optimized versions of request predicates #32244
• Include function name in SpelMessage.INCORRECT\_NUMBER\_OF\_ARGUMENTS\_TO\_FUNCTION #32239
• Add Coroutines support to NonReactiveHandlerMethodPredicate #32227
• RouterFunctionMapping does not implement MatchableHandlerMapping #32221
• Initialize (another) Map with correct size in RequestPredicates #32215
• Make SmartLifecycle phase value configurable in STOMP message handling components #32205
• Initialize Map with correct size in RequestPredicates #32201
• Let BeanPropertyRowMapper subclasses customize mapped names #32199
• Improve client and server handling of STOMP heartbeat failures #32195
• Optimize Map methods in ServletAttributesMap #32189
• Support binary streams with JdbcClient #32161
• Annotate core functional SPIs in SpEL with @FunctionalInterface #32135
• Cannot use SimpleJdbcInsert with catalog name #32124
• Refactor ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource #32118
• Reuse MapPropertySource for DynamicValuesPropertySource implementation (as a template for custom variants) #32110
• Improve Spring AOP performance for methods without specific advice #32104
• Make it possible to configure any TaskExecutor through ChannelRegistration #32081
• Add support for JSON streams to Kotlin Serialization #32074
• Avoid reflecting to obtain validationGroups every time the call is made #32068
• Reject @RequestMapping and @HttpExchange declarations on the same element #32065
• Missing toString for ExponentialBackOff #32061
• Reject multiple @HttpExchange declarations on the same element #32049
• ClientAbortException from StreamingResponseBody can cause infinite loop of dispatches #32042
• Log warning if multiple @PostMapping, @GetMapping, etc. annotations are declared #31962
• Using types in @SessionAttributes is sometimes not reflected in the model #30463
• Improve read publisher cancel handling to avoid connections in CLOSE_WAIT state with WebSocket on Tomcat #30393
• Provide more control over JPA entities scanning #27892
• Provide and document a way to handle single-page application redirects #27257
• MockMvcClientHttpRequestFactory swallows ServletResponse.errorMessage #26720

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Cannot send Server-Sent Events without data using WebMvc.fn SseBuilder #32270
• Fix pathExtension null-safety in Kotlin DSLs #32254
• SimpleEvaluationContext.Builder is not final and has a public constructor #32253
• @JsonDeserialize(builder = ...) does not work in GraalVM native image #32238
• RestClientAdapter claims it supports request attributes when it does not #32232
• ThreadPoolTaskExecutor rejecting tasks as soon as the context has been closed can lead to exceptions during web app shutdown #32226
• Consistent parsing of user information in UriComponentsBuilder #32211
• "IllegalStateException: Cannot call sendError() after the response has been committed" when IOException is thrown during resolving method argument values on Tomcat >= 10.1.16 #32206
• No longer able to override the toString() in HandlerMethod from 6.1.3 #32184
• 6.1.3 regression: aspect not called with multiple inheritance #32181
• Unable to use baseUrl on builders created from RestTemplate #32180
• MessageDeliveryException on shutdown with open WebSocket connections #32171
• With XML configuration, setter selection can be random in case of overloaded setter methods (e.g. on SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory in 6.1.3 from convertForProperty method) #32159
• Cannot process AOT when spring-orm is on the classpath without JPA #32155
• SpEL's Indexer.setArrayElement() incorrectly requests conversion to wrapper instead of primitive #32147
• SpEL increment and decrement operators do not generate prefix AST representation #32144
• Validation of PartEventHttpMessageReader#maxParts is off by one #32122
• QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver.checkQualifier does identity checks when comparing arrays used as qualifier fields #32106
• Guard against multiple body subscriptions in Jetty and JDK reactive responses #32100
• Parameter based cache keys on repository methods can't resolve after 6.1.2->6.1.3 #32087
• Exceptions thrown by custom error handlers are not recorded in RestTemplate observations #32060
• Static resources caching issues with ShallowEtagHeaderFilter and Jetty caching directives #32039
• RestClient calls interceptors from RestTemplate twice #32038
• DefaultRestClientBuilder.defaultRequest(...) doesn't do anything #32028
• Alias resolution error message in SimpleAliasRegistry is misleading #32025
• Destroy method not found in Native image for ExecutorService Bean type #32006
• RequestPredicate fails with WebFlux 6.1.2 #31955
• ChannelSendOperator.WriteBarrier race condition in request(long) method leads to response being dropped #31865

📔 Documentation

• Fix Kotlin syntax errors in RestClient builder example in rest-clients.adoc #32265
• Use double dot in "META-INF/aop.xml" documentation #32264
• Document that functions are variables in SpEL EvaluationContexts #32258
• Add section on AOT best practices about registering beans programmatically #32241
• Add section on AOT best practices about registering singletons #32240
• Fixes syntax error in JdbcClient examples #32236
• Document @RequestAttribute in HTTP clients [#32231](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework...

v6.0.17

⭐ New Features

• RouterFunctionMapping does not implement MatchableHandlerMapping #32222
• Optimize Map methods in ServletAttributesMap #32197

🐞 Bug Fixes

• @JsonDeserialize(builder = ...) does not work in GraalVM native image #32257
• Consistent parsing of user information in UriComponentsBuilder #32246
• "IllegalStateException: Cannot call sendError() after the response has been committed" when IOException is thrown during resolving method argument values on Tomcat >= 10.1.16 #32207
• Cannot process AOT when spring-orm is on the classpath without JPA #32160
• QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver.checkQualifier does identity checks when comparing arrays used as qualifier fields #32107
• Guard against multiple body subscriptions in Jetty and JDK reactive responses #32102
• Exceptions thrown by custom error handlers are not recorded in RestTemplate observations #32063
• Static resources caching issues with ShallowEtagHeaderFilter and Jetty caching directives #32050
• ChannelSendOperator.WriteBarrier race condition in request(long) method leads to response being dropped #32020
• Destroy method not found in Native image for ExecutorService Bean type #32017

📔 Documentation

• Update basics.adoc #32151
• Document cron-vs-quartz parsing convention for dayOfWeek part in CronExpression #32130

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.16 #32275

v5.3.32

⭐ New Features

• Add CORS support for Private Network Access #31974
• Avoid early getMostSpecificMethod resolution in CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor #31969

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Consistent parsing of user information in UriComponentsBuilder #32247
• QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver.checkQualifier does identity checks when comparing arrays used as qualifier fields #32108
• Guard against multiple body subscriptions in Jetty and JDK reactive responses #32101
• Static resources caching issues with ShallowEtagHeaderFilter and Jetty caching directives #32051
• ChannelSendOperator.WriteBarrier race condition in request(long) method leads to response being dropped #32021
• Spring AOP does not propagate arguments for dynamic prototype-scoped advice #31964
• MergedAnnotation swallows IllegalAccessException for attribute method #31961
• CronTrigger hard-codes default ZoneId instead of participating in scheduler-wide Clock setup #31950
• MergedAnnotations finds duplicate annotations on method in multi-level interface hierarchy #31825
• PathEditor cannot handle absolute Windows paths with forward slashes #31728
• Include Hibernate's Query.scroll() in SharedEntityManagerCreator's queryTerminatingMethods set #31684
• TypeDescriptor does not check generics in equals method (for ConversionService caching) #31674
• Slow SpEL performance due to method sorting in ReflectiveMethodResolver #31665
• Jackson encoder releases resources in wrong order #31657
• WebSocketMessageBrokerStats has null stats for stompSubProtocolHandler since 5.3.2 #31642

📔 Documentation

• Document cron-vs-quartz parsing convention for dayOfWeek part in CronExpression #32131

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.41 #32276

v6.1.3

⭐ New Features

• Perform checks for bean validation constraints in HandlerMethod only when needed #32007
• Exclude URI query from remaining WebClient checkpoints #31992
• Avoid early getMostSpecificMethod resolution in CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor #31967
• Introduce processInjection() in CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor #31956
• Make maximum length of SpEL expressions in an ApplicationContext configurable #31952
• JdkClientHttpRequest may block indefinitely #31911
• Allow Propagation.NOT\_SUPPORTED with @TransactionalEventListener #31907
• Review HibernateJpaVendorAdapter to align dialect to use for recent Hibernate versions #31896
• Improve method validation support for containers with constraints on container elements #31887
• Method validation is not triggered when constraints are applied to the elements of a List #31870
• Use standard String comparison in ExtendedBeanInfo.PropertyDescriptorComparator #31866
• Detect Jetty 12 "max length exceeded" message for MaxUploadSizeExceededException #31850
• Ensure that Observation is stopped and Scope is closed in doReceiveAndExecute() #31798
• Support the use of @Resource in test classes in AOT mode #31733
• Add support for configuring sslContext in StandardWebSocketClient #30680
• Refine allocations for improved memory profile when creating a large amount of proxy instances #30499
• Check ResponseStatusException reason as MessageSource code for ProblemDetail #30300
• SpringValidatorAdapter fails in getRejectedValue if ValueExtractor used in property path to unwrap a container type #29043
• Add CORS support for Private Network Access #28546
• Introduce NoOpTaskScheduler for disabling @Scheduled tasks in test setups #28073
• MvcUriComponentsBuilder should resolve property placeholders in request mapping paths #26795
• Allow SockJsUrlInfo to be overridden in SockJsClient #25888
• Extending abstract class does not expose parameter annotations #25788
• DatabasePopulatorConfigUtils should only set a populator if matching scripts are defined #23405
• @annotation pointcut is not matched with complex hierarchy and generics against classes compiled by Eclipse [SPR-17310] #21843
• Allow registration of application event listeners in a functional way [SPR-16872] #21411
• Allow CronTrigger to resume from specified timestamp [SPR-14909] #19475

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Using a URI variable for port in WebClient causes an IllegalStateException #32003
• [spring-tx] Unable to override prepareSynchronization of AbstractPlatformTransactionManager from v6.1.0 #32000
• RestClientResponseException handles responseHeaders case-sensitive #31978
• CronTrigger hard-codes default ZoneId instead of participating in scheduler-wide Clock setup #31948
• HandlerMappingIntrospector is throwing PatternSyntaxException for wildcards in the request URL #31937
• java.lang.NullPointerException with Scheduled tasks through DefaultScheduledTaskObservationConvention #31918
• HibernateJpaVendorAdapter refers to org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle12cDialect that does not exist in recent Hibernate versions #31892
• ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL57Dialect with Hibernate 6.4 #31889
• Inconsistent inclusion of base URL in WebClient URI template attribute since Spring WebFlux 6.1.2 #31882
• @Async does not support Unit? return type #31881
• Web handlers don't support Kotlin extensions #31876
• DefaultDataBuffer fails to transform its content to a string #31873
• With XML configuration, setter selection can be random in case of overloaded setter methods (e.g. on SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory in 6.1) #31872
• Complete frame callback when opcode is not PONG #31869
• @Cacheable does not respect cache hit when empty Mono/Flux response is returned #31868
• Unable to use sync cache with reactivestreams #31861
• Spring Websocket - JettyWebsocketHandlerAdapter copyByteBuffer fills Buffer with zeros #31857
• NullPointerException with @RequestMapping on Kotlin property accessors #31856
• Non-deterministic native image JSON hints invalidate Gradle build cache #31852
• DefaultServerRequestObservationConvention is silently used when multiple convention beans are defined #31864
• Significant increase in memory consumption StringDecoder when splitting input by delimiters. #31848
• Convert args to Kotlin value class in CoroutinesUtils #31846
• ForwardedHeaderFilter should reject invalid requests #31842
• NotReadablePropertyException due to mismatch between ConstraintViolation property path and BindingResult target in MethodValidationAdapter #31746
• Built-in method validation validates @RequestBody parameter twice #31711
• Double error response handling on suspended methods #31541
• Spring AOP does not propagate arguments for dynamic prototype-scoped advice #28407
• Only log status in ServletRequestHandledEvent #27595
• MergedAnnotation swallows IllegalAccessException for attribute method #27182
• AOP pointcut erroneously matching ProceedingJoinPoint.proceed when called from within another advised bean #26068

📔 Documentation

• Document exception handling for HTTP Interface client with RestClient and RestTemplate #31991
• Update ContentRequestMatchers#multipartData Javadoc #31988
• Update Spring Properties section of reference manual #31987
• Document Kotlin internal modifier impact on @Bean #31985
• Add missing preposition in reference guide #31977
• Adapt Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder documentation to mention ParameterNamesModule registration #31959
• Fix typo in kotlin.adoc #31958
• Fix references to "application/*+xml" in Javadoc...

v6.0.16

⭐ New Features

• Exclude URI query from remaining WebClient checkpoints #32001
• Add CORS support for Private Network Access #31975
• Avoid early getMostSpecificMethod resolution in CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor #31968

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Double error response handling on suspended methods #31990
• DefaultDataBuffer fails to transform its content to a string. #31979
• Spring AOP does not propagate arguments for dynamic prototype-scoped advice #31963
• MergedAnnotation swallows IllegalAccessException for attribute method #31960
• CronTrigger hard-codes default ZoneId instead of participating in scheduler-wide Clock setup #31949
• HandlerMappingIntrospector is throwing PatternSyntaxException for wildcards in the request URL #31946
• ForwardedHeaderFilter should reject invalid requests #31894
• @Async does not support Unit? return type #31891
• Significant increase in memory consumption StringDecoder when splitting input by delimiters. #31859

📔 Documentation

• Update ContentRequestMatchers#multipartData Javadoc #31989

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.15 #31997

v6.1.2

⭐ New Features

• Optimize ContentCachingRequestWrapper allocation for known request size #31834
• Inherit parent context in coRouter DSL #31831
• Declare isStatic and releaseTarget as default methods on TargetSource #31820
• Delegation support for JDBC 4.3 ConnectionBuilder and ShardingKeyBuilder #31795
• Support for a read-only DataSource in LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy #31785
• Add MySQLIdentityColumnMaxValueIncrementer #31784
• Introduce overloaded MockPart constructor that accepts the Content-Type #31757
• Introduce toString(Charset) in FastByteArrayOutputStream #31737
• Avoid byte array copy in getContentAsString #31731
• Improve "active" metrics handling in WebClient observations #31702
• Make ResourceArrayPropertyEditor supports comma delimited location patterns #31700
• Consistently log exceptions from TestExecutionListeners at WARN level #31688
• Document need for -parameters flag in exception messages #31675
• Improve @RegisterReflectionForBinding for enums #31570
• Support direct shard database operation routing in Spring JDBC #31506
• Log test aborted/skipped exceptions at INFO level in the TestContext framework #31479
• Avoid double proxying for @Resource @Lazy fallback autowiring #31447
• Add support for tuning the code generation for bean property values #31427
• Avoid race condition in ConcurrentReferenceHashMap #31008
• Allow functional bean registration to set bean order (equivalent to @Order) #30849
• Allow AOT generated classes to be excluded from code analyzer tools #30824
• Error page does not utilize forwarded prefix #30828
• Fix SimpleJdbcCall named parameter binding for Sybase ASE #30231
• DefaultWebClient ignores baseUrl when setting URI_TEMPLATE_ATTRIBUTE #30027
• Avoid eager checkDefaultConnectionProperties call in LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy #29931
• Allow TransactionAwareDataSourceProxy to eagerly fetch the connection #29423
• Extract common value generator out of BeanDefinitionPropertyValueCodeGenerator #28999
• PostgresCallMetaDataProvider should detect current schema as indicated by the JDBC Connection #28723
• Implement setMaxTextMessageSize and setMaxBinaryMessageSize in JettyWebSocketSession #28325
• Optimize cache used in AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor #28293
• @Async aspect should clear cached executors when different BeanFactory set #28201
• Component scanning should be able to ignore encrypted classes with invalid class version #27691
• Property to control URL decoding in ServletCookieValueMethodArgumentResolver #26989
• Support Predicate- based mappedHandler config in AbstractHandlerExceptionResolver #26772
• SimpleJdbcCall with namedBinding=true for MS SQL Server #26072
• Improve default setNull performance on PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server (e.g. for NamedParameterJdbcTemplate batch updates) #25679

🐞 Bug Fixes

• <replaced-method /> unnecessarily requires explicit arg-type since 6.0 #31826
• Avoid nested constructor data binding if there are no request parameters #31821
• Custom Init or Destroy method from an interface cannot be invoked in a native image #31819
• Avoid potential refresh deadlock with AbstractApplicationContext#registerShutdownHook #31811
• Classes proxied by CGLIB produces NPE with coroutine async job on Springboot 3.2.0 #31809
• Fix Comparators.nullsLow and Comporators.nullsHigh behavior #31808
• MergedAnnotations finds duplicate annotations on method in multi-level interface hierarchy #31803
• Pickup coroutineContext saved by CoWebFilter in coRouter #31793
• Support for multiple CoWebFilters that change CoroutineContext #31792
• TestCompiler should not discover annotation processors on the classpath by default #31791
• @Cacheable key generator is called after invoking the cached method in case of a miss #31789
• Encountered NotSerializableException for HttpComponentsHeadersAdapter when serializing HttpClientErrorException #31787
• Exclude Part from nested constructor binding in WebFlux #31778
• Fix condition for "Too many elements" in MimeTypeUtils.sortBySpecificity() #31769
• AnnotatedTypeMetadata's getMergedRepeatableAnnotationAttributes() method ignores classValuesAsString #31768
• SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler: task with fixed delay stops working after unhandled exception #31749
• Spring unable to decode aggregated JSON content #31747
• cannot resolve ServerRequest::pathVariable in nested RequestPredicate again #31732
• @NotNull on JPA entity not respected in schema generation #31726
• @Cacheable throws NullPointerException when encountering cached null value for empty Mono #31722
• RestClient ResponseSpec.body() throws an exception instead of returning null if no response body is available #31719
• UrlResource getFilename() suddenly returns null for certain paths #31718
• DisconnectedClientHelper is missing "AbortedException" #31717
• Constructor binding fails for Duration argument if request parameter is not present #31709
• TraceId is missing in WebFlux controller handlers #31706
• Wrong observation status tag when a Not Found in a webflux application #31703
• Correct conversion from Resource[] with length 1 to Collection #31699
• @ComponentScan added directly and via a meta-annotation leads to multiple scanning #31704
• Unable to use kotlin value classes as function arguments to functions mapping web endpoints #31698
• @DisabledInAotMode does not work in native image #31705
• GenericTypeResolver does not resolve nested generics - causes...

v6.0.15

⭐ New Features

• Skip buffer allocation in StreamUtils.copy(String) #31631

🐞 Bug Fixes

• <replaced-method /> unnecessarily requires explicit arg-type since 6.0 #31828
• MergedAnnotations finds duplicate annotations on method in multi-level interface hierarchy #31824
• Fix condition for "Too many elements" in MimeTypeUtils.sortBySpecificity() #31773
• Spring unable to decode aggregated JSON content #31772
• Multipart messages with empty parts are not correctly parsed in WebFlux #31766
• PathEditor cannot handle absolute Windows paths with forward slashes #31727
• TraceId is missing in WebFlux controller handlers #31716
• Wrong observation status tag when a Not Found in a webflux application #31715
• Fail to register MBean with bean name containing invalid character #31708
• Include Hibernate's Query.scroll() in SharedEntityManagerCreator's queryTerminatingMethods set #31683
• TypeDescriptor does not check generics in equals method (for ConversionService caching) #31673
• SpEL expression on a reloadable type can no longer be resolved #31670
• Slow SpEL performance due to method sorting in ReflectiveMethodResolver #31664
• Jackson encoder releases resources in wrong order #31656
• Current Observation.Context missing from WebClient request #31646
• WebSocketMessageBrokerStats has null stats for stompSubProtocolHandler since 5.3.2 #31641
• <jee:local-slsb> no longer works with a business-interface attribute #31630
• GeneratedFiles#addSourceFile should not allow to add a source in the default package #31629
• PathResourceResolver.getResource() does not log warning if Resource#getURL() throws exception #31624

📔 Documentation

• Document explicit @ModelAttribute is required for reflection hints inference #31767
• Documentation needs to be updated with instructions for STOMP Client #31678
• Improve STOMP WebSocket documentation for input message buffer size #31654

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.14 #31815

v6.1.1

⭐ New Features

• Skip buffer allocation in StreamUtils.copy(String) #31621
• Caching and Event Listening support do not reuse internal delegates for their evaluation contexts #31617
• Java 17: resource.isReadable() with concurrency leaks large amounts of non-heap memory #30955

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Spring MVC: Unexpected bytes added to the HTTP response for kotlin.Unit return type in controller methods #31648
• Spring Data Redis Cache implementation is not compatible with Cache.retrieve(key) semantics #31637
• GeneratedFiles#addSourceFile should not allow to add a source in the default package #31628
• <jee:local-slsb> no longer works with a business-interface attribute #31627
• Non-blocking @Cacheable method does not support condition with #result #31626
• PathResourceResolver.getResource() does not log warning if Resource#getURL() throws exception #31623
• Jackson encoder releases resources in wrong order #30493
• WebSocketMessageBrokerStats has null stats for stompSubProtocolHandler since 5.3.2 #26536

📔 Documentation

• Fix links related to Spring WebFlux #31632
• Extract recurring asciidoc links to attributes #31619
• Improve STOMP WebSocket documentation for input message buffer size #31616
• Document support for AppCDS #31497

❤️ Contributors

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

@7fantasy7, @Star-ho, and @quaff