v6.1.0-RC2

⭐ New Features

• Support ContextLoader config in @SpringJUnitConfig and @SpringJUnitWebConfig #31498
• TypeDescriptor and ResolvableType cache in GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor #31490
• Consistent Class and array matching in ResolvableType.isAssignableFrom #31487
• BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor should declare empty default postProcessBeanFactory method #31476
• Remove support for Protobuf 2.x and protobuf-java-format #31465
• Refine CRaC restoration logs #31462
• Allow repeatable writes in StreamingHttpOutputMessage #31449
• Add support for merging two BeanRegistrationAotContribution instances #31446
• Kotlin BeanFactory.getBean extension fails with nested generic in context #31439
• Log warning and skip resource hint registration for classpath location patterns #31429
• Revisit AOT support for generic constructor argument values #31420
• Add UriBuilderFactoryArgumentResolver. #31413
• Add Coroutines support for @Cacheable #31412
• PartEvent API should support limiting the number of file parts #31343
• Revise support for quoted identifiers in SimpleJdbcInsert #31208
• When configuration class parsing fails, provide more information about the class that triggered the failure #31146
• WebClientResponseException defaults to ISO-8859-1 #31072
• Introduce @DisabledInAotMode in the TestContext framework #30834
• Support TypedStringValue during AOT processing #29074
• Support ETag generation on ResourceHttpRequestHandler #29031
• Better error reporting for @Bean creating when bean instance has been replaced with an incompatible type #28897
• Add Coroutines support for @EventListener #28343
• Support "*" catch-all mappings for MockMvc Filter registrations #28041
• Guard against ConcurrentModificationException when the response processes commitActions #27587
• Improve ControlFlowPointcut extensibility #27187
• Uploading a too-large file should be a 4xx client error, not a 500 Internal Server Error #27170
• Add special handling of disconnected client errors in ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver #26181

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ConstructorResolver rejects a candidate if the parameter value is null #31495
• 3.2.0-RC1: No primary or single unique constructor found for interface java.util.Set #31488
• Can't link to Spring Framework 6.1.0 release candidate documentation #31480
• In MockMvc tests all filters end up with empty-string filterName, breaking OncePerRequestFilter #31474
• <mvc:annotation-driven> should not instantiate bean property values #31472
• Graal VM native image: Substitution target for o.s.o.j.v.Target_BytecodeProvider is not loaded #31452
• JdkClientHttpRequest does not support Content-Length 0 #31451
• Fix typo in ClassUtils.forName() #31428
• AOT processing fails to determine proper target for a FactoryBean that produces an array #31426
• BeanDefinitionPropertyValueCodeGenerator#orderForConsistency expects values to be Comparable #31419
• Conversion not applied to @RequestParam default value if used for "null after conversion" case #31336
• HandlerMethodValidationException.Visitor incorrectly triggers other() method instead of requestParam() for @RequestParam validation errors #31329
• AbstractApplicationContext.refresh() leaves bean resources uncleaned when SmartInitializationSingleton throws a non BeansException #28878

📔 Documentation

• Document pattern matching support in NameMatchMethodPointcut #31500
• Fix small typo in javadoc #31455
• Expand explanation for the "lite" bean approach #29957

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to ASM 9.6 #31431
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.20-RC2 #31494

❤️ Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @bdshadow, @funky-eyes, @izeye, @larsgrefer, and @mmoayyed

v6.1.0-RC1

⭐ New Features

• Enforce REQUIRES_NEW for correct transaction configuration on transactional event listeners #31414
• TestCompiler should allow to configure the Locale that renders compiler messages #31408
• Consistent Object result declarations for JdbcClient's ResultQuerySpec #31403
• Move ReactorResourceFactory to org.springframework.http.client package #31399
• Prevent message resolution after context close #31397
• Handle STOMP messages to user destination in order #31395
• AOT bean registrations miss reflection hints on property fields #31390
• Support Jackson's DatatypeFeature in Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder #31380
• Allow Filters to be initialized when they're added to MockMvc #31362
• Use schema-based config in sql-error-codes.xml #31354
• Optimize uses of onErrorResume() #31352
• AOT bean registrations miss reflection hints on interfaces #31350
• SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler should run fixed-delay tasks on scheduler thread #31334
• Allow custom observation convention for RestClient #31325
• MockMvcHttpClientConnector support for RequestPostProcessor hook #31298
• Expose shouldHandle(ApplicationEvent) in ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter #31295
• Make ReactorNettyClientRequestFactory lifecycle-aware #31281
• Add a constructor with externally managed Reactor Netty resources to ReactorNettyClientRequestFactory #31280
• Consistent CannotAcquireLockException translation for PostgreSQL serialization failure behind JPA #31274
• Simplify ServerRequestExtensions.queryParamOrNull() #31264
• Reduce nested class lookups in ClassUtils #31258
• Print JVM restoration time in DefaultLifecycleProcessor #31252
• ValueLoaderEntryProcessor should not be created for every call to JCacheCache#get #31250
• Introduce initialize() method in AbstractRoutingDataSource and AbstractRoutingConnectionFactory #31248
• Add MappingJackson2MessageConverter constructors that accept an ObjectMapper #31234
• Eliminate synchronized block to avoid thread pinning in SingletonSupplier #31227
• Add OuputStream BodyInserter #31184
• SseEmitter should format a multiline String #30965
• Suppress logging from HandlerMapping when used for Spring Security's mvcRequestMatcher #30349
• Lenient handling of unencoded URIs in ForwardedHeaderTransformer #30137
• Support DispatcherType.INCLUDE in DefaultServletHttpRequestHandler #30113
• Introduce caching for functional routing #29985
• Log CglibAopProxy errors as WARN instead of INFO #29773
• Add CharBufferDecoder #29741
• Provide the HttpRequest on the ClientResponse interface #28397
• Batch update return generated keys #28132
• Allow filters to be registered with MockMvc for particular dispatcher types #27717
• Introduce class-level execution phases for @Sql #27285
• Add default methods to MailSender and JavaMailSender as appropriate #23651
• Remove all ApplicationListenerMethodAdapters on context close [SPR-17456] #21988
• Handle STOMP messages from client session in order #21798
• Call Lifecycle.stop() for already started beans on failed refresh [SPR-15468] #20028

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix regression in JmsAccessor#setSessionAcknowledgeMode #31328
• JdbcClient does not update KeyHolder when using positional parameters #31297
• AOT bean registrations miss reflection hints on public methods #31293
• DefaultFetchSpec should not buffer results in temporary list buffers #31282
• Missing reflection hint on Publisher for bean destroy methods support #31278
• Missing reflection hint on Eclipse FileLocator #31271
• Missing resource hint for spring.properties #31270
• Missing reflection hints on Kotlin classes for KotlinDetector #31269
• Missing reflection hint on MonetaryAmount in conversion service #31266
• Missing reflection hints for jakarta.inject classes #31259
• ResponseBodyEmitter ignores calls to complete but remains open after JSON write error while sending #30687
• The task in AsyncTaskExecutor throws an exception before execution, and ControllerAdvice will be called twice. #30232
• Suppress deprecation warning for AOT-generated code that refers to a deprecated member #29597
• Avoid duplicate ApplicationListener firing (proxy vs. target) #28322
• JCacheCache#putIfAbsent is not atomic #21591

📔 Documentation

• Add Search in all Spring Docs #31290
• Add missing period in RestClient documentation #31237
• Improve wording in Javadoc for @Autowired #31235
• Clarify ClientHttpRequestInterceptor#intercept() must close response if it throws exception after receiving the response #29751
• Create migration guide from RestTemplate to RestClient #23269

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.0-RC1 #31398
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.0-RC1 #31406

❤️ Contributors

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

@JakobFels, @OnlyWick, @StellarStrategist, @aahlenst, @alidandach, @bergander, @bramhaag, @chaewon121, @ctailor2, @e-freni, @esperar, @ghainesii, @hpoettker, @izeye, @joakimmohn, @kang-hl, @kriegaex, @kzander91, @markusheiden, @mdeinum, @qpakzk, @quaff, @ralph-riedel, @runeflobakk, @rwinch, @sephiroth-j, @shin-mallang, @violetbeach, and @vpavic

v6.0.13

⭐ New Features

• Improve diagnostics for negative repeated text count in SpEL #31342
• Improve diagnostics when repeated text size calculation results in overflow in SpEL #31341
• UnknownContentTypeException is not Serializable #31283
• Reintroduce FastClass in CGLIB class names for @Configuration classes #31272

🐞 Bug Fixes

• HibernateJpaDialect and HibernateExceptionTranslator throw SQLExceptionTranslator-provided exception instead of returning it #31409
• AnnotationScanner scanning leads to StackOverflowError with recursive annotation #31400
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate throws unexpected exception for null query #31391
• HTTP server exchange observations have incorrect UNKNOWN status tag if the client disconnected #31388
• Breaking change from 6.0.11 to 6.0.12 if you expect query parameters in @RequestBody #31327
• SpEL's CompoundExpression.toStringAST() omits ? for null-safe navigation #31326
• ConcurrentLruCache no longer supports capacity = 0 #31317
• Using R2dbc transactional and non transactional on a database connection pool will fail for Oracle. #31268
• AOT-generated code no longer set bean class for beans created from a @Bean method #31242
• CGLIB proxy classes are no longer cached properly #31238
• Illegal reflective access in ContextOverridingClassLoader.isEligibleForOverriding #31232
• Fix RuntimeHintsPredicates matching rules for public/declared elements #31224
• MultipartParser should respect read position #31110
• WebClient reports 'Host is not specified' for URI with hostname and port, but without scheme #31033
• R2DBC Connection is closed during transaction when using TransactionAwareConnectionFactoryProxy #28133
• SpEL cannot evaluate or compile expression with null-safe void method invocation #27421
• LazyResolutionMessage does not implement proper toString #21265

📔 Documentation

• Document Kotlin declaration site variance subtleties #31370
• Add missing conversionService field in doc example #31330
• Clarify documentation on Spring Web MVC pattern comparison #31294
• Improved documentation for MethodParameter#getAnnotatedElement #30397
• Javadoc for BeanPropertyRowMapper.getColumnValue(ResultSet, int, Class) is inconsistent with code #29285
• Referencing a @Bean method in a @Configuration class' @PostConstruct method leads to circular reference #27876
• Incorrect reference information about CGLIB supported method visibility #25001
• Clarify documentation for @Transactional on interfaces #23538

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.12 #31404
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.12 #31405

❤️ Contributors

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

@jihuayu and @wfouche

v6.1.0-M5

⭐ New Features

• JdbcClient should reject a List as the parameter of the IN clause of an SQL statement when using positional parameters #31215
• Support one-time @Scheduled tasks #31211
• Deprecate JOptCommandLinePropertySource #31207
• Use MergedAnnotations API directly in AnnotationBeanNameGenerator where possible #31203
• Introduce MethodInvoker API for TestExecutionListeners #31199
• Use Method#isDefault to find default methods in interfaces #31197
• Refine logic to release WebSocket ByteBuffer via Callback with Jetty 12 #31182
• Make ReactorClientHttpConnector lifecycle-aware #31180
• Make ReactorResourceFactory lifecycle-aware #31178
• Consolidate HTTP Interface client support for MultipartFile and @RequestPart #31164
• Register reflection hints for @TestPropertySource factory #31160
• Introduce TaskDecorator variant for Context Propagation #31130
• Introduce reverse methods in AOP MethodMatchers and ClassFilters #26725
• Replace Reactive awaitSingle() usages by the Mono variant #31127
• Clarify and log that return value of HandlerMethod is ignored if reason of @ResponseStatus present #31121
• Instrument RestClient for Observability #31114
• Attempt to reset Servlet response before calling ExceptionHandlers #31104
• Raise log level to warn when configuration class enhancement cannot apply due to circular reference #31102
• Refine "checkpoint on refresh" error handling #31096
• Deprecate convention-based @Component stereotype names in favor of @AliasFor #31093
• Reinstate support for legacy JSR-250 @javax.annotation.ManagedBean and JSR-330 @javax.inject.Named annotations #31090
• Look up @Component stereotype names using @AliasFor semantics #31089
• Add @Nullable to value in param() methods in JdbcClient #31084
• Ensure direct @PropertySource annotations override meta-annotations #31074
• Introduce var-args params() method in JdbcClient's StatementSpec #31070
• Introduce overloaded methods in JdbcTestUtils that accept JdbcClient instead of JdbcOperations #31066
• Revise JdbcTestUtils method signatures to accept JdbcOperations instead of JdbcTemplate #31065
• Adapt native support for Hibernate 6.3.0 bytecode provider changes #31051
• Move blocking writeResource operation to boundedElastic #30928
• Move blocking view resolution to boundedElastic #30903
• Support parameter injection in @BeforeTransaction/@AfterTransaction methods #30736
• Introduce getContentAsString() in ContentCachingRequestWrapper #30709
• Support configuring Jetty WebSocket server parameters #30344
• Optimize InlineMap and InlineList in SpEL #30251
• Update Pointcuts to match getter methods by also excluding void return type #30068
• Improve attribute handling in RequestPredicates #30028
• Add support for JSR-330 and Jakarta @Inject for autowiring test constructors #29851
• Optimize initial size in ContentCachingRequestWrapper when contentCacheLimit set #29775
• Optimize Hibernate native footprint by making ByteBuddy unreachable #29549
• Execute preflight checks before interceptors #29509
• Use Arrays.hashCode(...) in ObjectUtils #29051
• Improve toString representation of complex parameters in SimpleKey #27670
• Propagate CoroutineContext in CoWebFilter #27522
• Add ParameterNamesModule to "well known" jackson modules #27511
• Optimize for single TransactionSynchronization #27335
• Improve performance of CompositePropertySource#getPropertyNames #27236
• Avoid calling executeBatch() with 0 batch size #27154
• Add maxAttempts to ExponentialBackOff #27071
• Spring Webflux: CoRouterFunctionDsl should expose the used CoroutineContext #27010
• spring-webflux filters don't pass CoroutineContext #26977
• Support declarative ContextCustomizer registration in the TestContext framework #26148
• Improve SpEL inline collection caching #25921
• Use Comparable instead of dedicated implementations #25478
• Support method injection when @Autowired(require=false) is used on mixed nullability args #24773
• Add factory method to create a NamedThreadLocal with an initial value #24705
• CglibAopProxy: Skip non-overridden methods of Object.class as those which for sure have no advice #24649
• Add conversion support for Pattern/Regex #24311
• Support quoted identifiers in SimpleJdbcInsert #24013
• Add composite for TaskDecorator #23692
• Spring AOP is not compatible with Kotlin Coroutines #22462
• Added Basic Authorization for UrlResource #1822
• Allow component name to be specified in @ControllerAdvice [SPR-16566] #21108
• MethodValidationInterceptor support for Mono and Flux method parameters #20781
• Support validating collection of objects on web controller method #16917

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AOT check on a bean definition with an instance supplier is not consistent #31200
• Pass correct SqlParameterSource to NamedParameterJdbcTemplate in DefaultJdbcClient #31195
• Various methods in SimpleJdbcInsert prevent method chaining #31177
• Client observations URI template missing when using RestTemplateAdapter #31144
• Validator resolution can no longer be lazy #31137
• Make the JdbcClient method update(KeyHolder generatedKeyHolder) work with positional parameters [#31122](https://github.com/spring-projects/sp...

v6.0.12

⭐ New Features

• ArithmeticException: long overflow on @Scheduled(fixedDelay = Long.MAX_VALUE, timeUnit = TimeUnit.MINUTES) #31210
• Polish resolveArgument method in RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor #31175
• Update logging level in BeanValidationBeanRegistrationAotProcessor for validation exceptions #31147
• Skip searching of nonexistent directory in PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver #31111
• Add @Nullable to argValue in doSetValue() in Argument[Type]PreparedStatementSetter #31086
• Optimize whitespace checks in StringUtils #31067
• Missing proxy hint when using a simple JPARepository #31050
• Register an override for an existing adapter in ReactiveAdapterRegistry #31047
• DefaultListableBeanFactory#getBeanNamesForType does not take target type into account for FactoryBean resolution #30987
• Give spring-core access to org.jboss.vfs for VfsUtils support on WildFly #30973
• Use readNBytes in StringHttpMessageConverter when contentLength is available #30942
• Skip array sort when the length of array not greater than 1 #30934
• Avoid flushing for each SseEventBuilder entry #30912
• Make DefaultGenerationContext(DefaultGenerationContext, String) constructor protected #30895
• Add missing @Nullable annotations in AbstractResourceResolver subclasses in Spring MVC #30893
• Performance bottlenecks while creating scoped bean instances #30883
• Make bean initialization deterministic for multiple @Autowired methods on same bean class #30359
• Optimize ClassUtils#getMostSpecificMethod #30272
• Missing native hints for Hibernate Native Query proxy #29603
• Check exception cause for @PropertySource(ignoreResourceNotFound) support #22276
• Align validation metadata handling in PayloadMethodArgumentResolver #21852

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Spring Boot fails with "does not reside in the file system: manifoldclass://622488023/.../" #31216
• WebClientResponseException.getResponseBodyAs throws exception instead of returning null for empty body #31179
• Possible classloader leak through incomplete clearing of annotation caches #31170
• Spring LogFactory implementation deviates from original Apache LogFactory in terms of abstract method declarations #31166
• graalvm native image feature PreComputeFieldFeature disable all netty native transports #31141
• Bean injection fails due to nullSafeConciseToString() invoking isEmpty() on a Map/Collection proxy #31138
• R2DBC: Skip release connection after nested with existing transaction #31133
• SpelExpressionParser throws IllegalStateException instead of ParseException for invalid expression #31097
• @DynamicPropertySource in @Nested test class cannot override dynamic properties from enclosing class #31083
• Spring Boot WebFlux validation of invalid inputs #31045
• TransactionalApplicationListenerMethodAdapter should find @TransactionalEventListener on target class method #31034
• ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor: graceful shutdown should not interrupt currently running jobs #31019
• TypeBootstrapContext constructor not called in custom types with Hibernate 6 #30924
• MethodIntrospector.selectMethods(?) fails to find methods in case of special bridge method arrangement #30906
• Spring webflux @ModelAttribute annotated methods not working with kotlin suspend methods #30894
• Support Kotlin Serialization custom serializers #30870
• Test AOT processing fails if a feature name prefix is reused #30861
• NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException should make sure beansNameFound is serializable #29753
• Permgen memory leak due to ClassInfo caching in java.beans.Introspector on JDK 11/17 #27781
• Model.set() Kotlin extension method does not allow null value #27115
• Allow PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer subclass to customize PropertyResolver #26761

📔 Documentation

• Fix documentation: Passing in Lists of Values for IN Clause does not work with JdbcTemplate #31228
• Fix typo in comment in XML configuration example #31194
• Document some non-nullable Kotlin extensions can throw NoSuchElementException #31189
• Improve documentation on applicability of mapped interceptors with the Spring MVC config #31185
• Add Javadoc since tags in FilePatternResourceHintsRegistrar #31174
• Refine CORS documentation for wildcard processing #31143
• Fix invalid type name in RSocket section of the reference documentation #31091
• @Transactional on package-private/protected methods for class-based proxies #31057
• Change Kotlin Any to be a nullable type in AOP refdoc examples #31015
• Versioned redirect seems to all redirect to "current" version #31009
• Javadoc for PathPatternParser.defaultInstance is outdated #30976
• Clarify R2DBC ConnectionAccessor and DatabasePopulator exception declarations #30932
• Document purpose of name attribute in @PropertySource #30195
• Document how to configure the ApplicationEventMulticaster used by the ApplicationContext #29996
• Document inference of destroy methods with Java config more prominently #29546
• Revise FilePatternResourceHintsRegistrar API and improve documentation #29161
• Document how to configure the cache infrastructure globally #28250
• SpEL T() operator not able to locate user types with default StandardTypeLocator configuration #26253
• Propagation REQUIRES_NEW may cause connection pool deadlock #26250
• Modify DefaultMessageListenerContainer javadoc #25503
• Doc: Avoid deadlock in @PostConstruct through SmartInitializingSingleton or ContextRefreshedEvent #25074
• Document expected behavior of a method annotated with multiple @Scheduled annotations #23959...

v5.3.30

⭐ New Features

• Optimize ClassUtils#getMostSpecificMethod #31100
• Optimize whitespace checks in StringUtils #31069
• Align validation metadata handling in PayloadMethodArgumentResolver #31056
• Register an override for an existing adapter in ReactiveAdapterRegistry #31048
• Make bean initialization deterministic for multiple @Autowired methods on same bean class #30994
• Performance bottlenecks while creating scoped bean instances #30892

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Possible classloader leak through incomplete clearing of annotation caches #31176
• Spring LogFactory implementation deviates from original Apache LogFactory in terms of abstract method declarations #31167
• Bean injection fails due to nullSafeConciseToString() invoking isEmpty() on a Map/Collection proxy #31156
• SpelExpressionParser throws IllegalStateException instead of ParseException for invalid expression #31099
• @DynamicPropertySource in @Nested test class cannot override dynamic properties from enclosing class #31085
• TransactionalApplicationListenerMethodAdapter should find @TransactionalEventListener on target class method #31037
• ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor: graceful shutdown should not interrupt currently running jobs #31020
• Permgen memory leak due to ClassInfo caching in java.beans.Introspector on JDK 11/17 #31005
• MethodIntrospector.selectMethods(?) fails to find methods in case of special bridge method arrangement #30907

📔 Documentation

• Fix documentation: Passing in Lists of Values for IN Clause does not work with JdbcTemplate #31229
• Refine CORS documentation for wildcard processing #31168
• Propagation REQUIRES_NEW may cause connection pool deadlock #31040
• Clarify R2DBC ConnectionAccessor and DatabasePopulator exception declarations #30933
• Doc: Avoid deadlock in @PostConstruct through SmartInitializingSingleton or ContextRefreshedEvent #30889

v6.1.0-M4

⭐ New Features

• Support resource patterns in @TestPropertySource locations #31055
• Support text blocks for inlined properties in @TestPropertySource #31053
• @Bean method should be always allowed to override scanned class matching its return type #31052
• Support finding repeatable annotations in AnnotatedTypeMetadata #31041
• Fail fast if a @Bean method has a void return type #31007
• Use Class#arrayType() where feasible #31002
• ReactiveAdapterRegistry is not compatible with Mutiny 2 #31000
• Avoid thread pinning in SseEmitter write operations #30996
• Add support for property file encoding in @TestPropertySource #30982
• Support custom properties file formats in @TestPropertySource #30981
• Support @HttpExchange for server side handling #30980
• Fail on error by default during test AOT processing #30977
• Deprecate applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization and applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization in the AutowireCapableBeanFactory interface #30974
• Provide methods for obtaining include/exclude path patterns in MappedInterceptor #30971
• Introduce SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler with virtual threads support (as an alternative to ThreadPoolTaskScheduler) #30956
• Support declarative mode for data binding #30948
• Support customizing the bind parameter name for constructor binding #30947
• Support @RSocketExchange for responding #30936
• Introduce JdbcClient with unified parameter capabilities (as a JDBC variant of DatabaseClient) #30931
• Allow preferred constructor to be defined at the BeanDefinition level #30917
• Remove obsolete native image reflection hint registration for TransactionDefinition constants #30854
• Deprecate Constants utility and stop using it internally #30851
• Use Long.parseLong(CharSequence,int,int,int) to avoid intermediate String creation #30710
• Support Kotlin value class properties in SpEL #30468
• Add observability support for JMS #30335
• @TransactionalEventListener does not work with SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.setTaskExecutor #30244
• Direct autowiring of existing collection subtype bean if ApplicationContext contains beans of type T #30022
• Clarify FactoryBean.OBJECT\_TYPE\_ATTRIBUTE supported types #29799
• Add support for Kotlin inline/value classes in BeanUtils #28638
• Publish event for @TransactionalEventListener with Spring WebFlux #27515
• Introduce TransactionExecutionListener callback API #27479
• R2DBC - DatabaseClient - Add bind method to accept an object #27282
• Introduce RowMapper with automatic binding to fields #26594
• Add support for Class-based mapping in DatabaseClient #26021
• @Component not picked up by @ComponentScan if it has the same simple name as the main class #25952
• Support custom TimeUnits in StopWatch #25803
• @Lookup doesn't work in case of AbstractBeanFactory's cacheBeanMetadata=false #25749
• Injection of List is inconsistent with Resource[] #24845
• Provide guidance and better diagnostics when dependency injection makes a bean ineligible for complete post-processing #24092
• Availability of a bean definition's resolved factory method depends upon a side-effect of getBeanNamesForType which is lost when metadata caching is disabled #23795
• Validate afterThrowing method signature in ThrowsAdviceInterceptor #1896
• Support resource patterns in @PropertySource locations [SPR-16785] #21325
• Increase reusability of Validator [SPR-15314] #19877
• Support additional file formats in ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource #18990
• Reactive types support for @Cacheable methods [SPR-14235] #17920
• Support caching annotations for CompletableFuture return values [SPR-12967] #17559

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Move ServerWebExchange Kotlin extensions to the right package #31046
• Spring does not find all @ComponentScan or @PropertySource annotations #30941
• 404 on static resource does not return ProblemDetail response #30930

📔 Documentation

• Document @AliasFor support in AnnotatedTypeMetadata.getAnnotationAttributes() #31042
• Update documentation for HTTP Interface return values #30959
• Update documentation for data binding improvements #30952
• Use of ApplicationEventPublisher in a reactive call stack [SPR-16481] #21025

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to JUnit 5.10 #30970
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.0-M2 #30997
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.0-M2 #31014

❤️ Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @alidandach, @devdilson, @graceyu-own, @izeye, @kilink, @plx927, and @remeio

v6.1.0-M3

⭐ New Features

• Update warning log messages for SimpleAsyncTaskManager to take into account virtual thread mode #30902
• Extract forwarded header handling out of UriComponentsBuilder #30886
• Reduce logging for ResourceNotFoundException #30884
• Revisit public API for MBeanExporter #30874
• Early support for JDK 22 #30845
• DataAccessUtils result accessors with Optional return value #27735
• Add convert(Object, TypeDescriptor) method to ConversionService #25394
• Revisit DataAccessException translation API #24634

🐞 Bug Fixes

• @CachePut evaluates key before cache condition #22769
• Topic messages are not sent when using transacted JmsTemplate in 'TransactionSynchronization.afterCommit' phase [SPR-16270] #20817

📔 Documentation

• Update javadoc to take virtual threads into account #30905

❤️ Contributors

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

@KaidosGH, @izeye, and @lgxbslgx

v6.1.0-M2

⭐ New Features

• Refine the log message printed after restoration with CRaC #30876
• Add HttpExchangeAdapter for RestClient #30869
• Use latest version of sockjs-client in AbstractSockJsService #30848
• ClientHttpRequestFactory based on Reactor Netty HttpClient #30835
• Pause/resume capability for ThreadPoolTaskExecutor and ThreadPoolTaskScheduler #30831
• Rearrange HttpHeader adapters #30823
• Support use of MockRestServiceServer with RestClient #30821
• Allow built ServerResponse to throw exception #30818
• Method validation error handling by controller method parameter type #30813
• Add RestClient Kotlin extensions #30807
• Detect interface parameter annotations also from spring-messaging HandlerMethod #30801
• Allows JdkClientHttpRequest.DISALLOWED_HEADERS to be customized. #30788
• Change restore logging to info level #30775
• Add MultipartFileArgumentResolver for HTTP interface client #30728
• Align KeyValues of Scheduled-annotated observability with OpenTelemetry conventions #30721
• Detect invalid transaction configuration for transactional event listeners #30679
• Blocking execution for WebFlux controller methods #30678
• Add a CoExchangeFilterFunction for WebClient similar to CoWebFilter #30650
• Built-in Web Support for Method Bean Validation #30645
• Spring MVC and WebFlux handling of method validation errors #30644
• HttpClient based ClientHttpRequestFactory #30478
• HTTP interface client infrastructure and adapter for RestTemplate #30117
• Instrument Scheduled-annotated methods for observability #29883
• Add AOT support for Kotlin constructors with optional parameters #29820
• Introduce RestClient #29552
• Space in integer request parameter neither triggers the default value nor generates a 400 #29550
• Improve 404 error handling in Spring MVC #29491
• Issue with equals(?)/hashCode() for ResolvableType.forRawClass(?) #28608
• Introduce ModuleResource for resources loaded from a given Module #28507
• ArrayToCollectionConverter should default to List if target type is Collection #28048
• ResolvableType should allow to determine matching type argument for generic return type #27748
• Parallel graceful shutdown for ThreadPoolTaskExecutor and ThreadPoolTaskScheduler #27090
• Support target instantiation and binding via constructor in DataBinder #26721
• Support for MultiValueMap elements in web data binding #26297
• Add binding support to functional servlet and reactive stack #25943
• @Scheduled methods in beans created by FactoryBeans are not cancelled #24629
• ExecutorConfigurationSupport API refinement to control internal executor shutdown #24497
• DataBinder using constructor parameter should use path variables #22748
• Add JDBC SqlValue classes for arrays #1850
• Support Kotlin parameter default values in HTTP handler methods #21139
• Multiple TaskSchedulers to be supported with @Scheduled [SPR-16271] #20818
• Let the DataBinder construct nested objects #20806
• Add support to any Iterable types on PropertyAccessor #907

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor fails without Reactive Streams on the classpath #30707
• @SessionAttributes handler invoked too early if controller method execution is deferred #30337
• Fix AbstractMessageConverter not delegating to ContentTypeResolver when message header is null #29768
• JSON deserialization for Kotlin collections on inherited classes #24033

📔 Documentation

• Update documentation on customizing validation errors with MessageSource #30653
• Update documentation for method validation improvements in spring-context, Spring MVC, and WebFlux #30643

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Context Propagation 1.1.0-M3 #30882
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.0 #30719
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.7.2 #30833
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.0-M1 #30872
• Upgrade to Project CRaC 1.3.0 #30812
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.0-M1 #30856

❤️ Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @erichaagdev, @izeye, @kooixh, @ljtfreitas, @marschall, @mdeinum, @spencergibb, and @yoshikawaa

v6.0.11

⭐ New Features

• Reduce WARN level log output during test AOT processing #30867
• Avoid need for reflection hints for MBeanExporter in native image #30846
• Tolerate AnnotationUtils.isCandidateClass call with null as annotation type #30842
• Simplify DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.isDependent() #30839
• Add missing @Nullable annotations in ContentDisposition.Builder #30820
• Provide explicit support for collections, maps, and arrays in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30810
• Extend list of supported types in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30805
• Align ConcurrentMapCacheManager locking behavior with CaffeineCacheManager #30780
• Improve logging for missing dependencies in MicrometerObservationRegistryTestExecutionListener #30747
• Optimize KotlinReflectionParameterNameDiscoverer #30725
• Change InvocableHandlerMethod#invokeSuspendingFunction return type to Object #30716
• ResolvableType.hasUnresolvableGenerics() should cache its result #30713
• Deprecate RootBeanDefinition(ResolvableType) constructor #30704
• Reinstate dependency injection support for legacy JSR-250 @javax.annotation.Resource annotation #30695
• Translate SQL Exception with State S0001 and Vendor Code 2628 to a Spring Exception in MSSQL 2019 #30681
• Ensure Spring LogFactory contains all public methods from Apache LogFactory #30668
• Infer hints required for aspects #28711
• Improve diagnostics for CGLIB ClassLoader issues with shared classes in parent ClassLoader #25940
• JdbcTemplate does not call handleWarnings in case of exception #23106
• Avoid illegal reflective access in ContextOverridingClassLoader.isEligibleForOverriding #22791

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Revert changes to toString() in FieldError #30799
• For a prototype bean, if first-time rejected value is null, subsequent value will wrongly be null always #30794
• Fix log level on error with @TransactionalEventListener #30776
• ClassCastException in AbstractBeanDefinition.getBeanClassName() when getting bean multithreaded #30773
• SerializableTypeWrapper does not consistently catch InvocationTargetException #30764
• NPE in MvcUriComponentsBuilder with no-arg target method on interface #30756
• ArithmeticException: long overflow on @Scheduled(fixedDelay = Long.MAX_VALUE) #30754
• Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder breaks when modules customizer follows modulesToInstall #30751
• NullPointerException in reactive TransactionalOperatorImpl #30729
• MicrometerObservationRegistryTestExecutionListener uses wrong ClassLoader to detect dependencies #30726
• Support [package-]private init/destroy methods in AOT mode #30724
• Package-private init/destroy methods are not always invoked #30718
• Generic RedisKeyExpiredEvent not delivered to @EventListener anymore in 6.0.9 #30712
• Explicit BeanDefinition#targetType is not honoured in AOT scenarios #30689
• Spring ORM SpringBeanContainer when trying to create a bean fails with not found bean definition, and fallbacks to default hibernate bean creation #30683
• PathResourceResolver#resolve*Internal is missing @Nullable declarations #30601
• Code generation should only apply shortcut if the target method is not ambiguous #29278

📔 Documentation

• Update STOMP documentation with the new guidelines #30857
• Clarify ReactiveTransactionManager exception declarations #30817
• Doc: JdbcTransactionManager vs DataSourceTransactionManager #30802
• Fix typo in Javadoc for BeanDefinitionDsl.kt #30798
• Remove @Aspect for classes containing only @Pointcut declarations in reference documentation #30790
• NestedRuntimeException javadoc not updated after implementation change #30748
• AbstractMessageListenerContainer documentation and code disagree regarding log level #30730
• Fix link text from "null" to "Component Classes" in Testing chapter #30714
• Document that RowCallbackHandler can be used with NamedParameterJdbcTemplate #30705
• Javadoc HTML tables are no longer rendered properly since upgrade to Java 17 #30701
• Fix typo in UriUtils Javadoc #30598
• Fix example in Javadoc for MultipartBodyBuilder #30593
• Elaborate on ShallowEtagHeaderFilter limitations #30517
• Document how to configure a custom LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean to work with native #30498
• Document that @Sql requires spring-jdbc and spring-tx on the classpath #30280
• Document limitations of Servlet Filter observations #29398
• Warn against direct usage of Servlet API in WebFlux applications #28872
• ResultSet holdability into the View layer broken by Hibernate 5 #26557

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to micrometer-bom 1.10.9 and context-propagation 1.0.4 #30860
• Upgrade to me.champeau.jmh 0.7.1 #30690
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.9 #30871

❤️ Contributors

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

@KSH-code, @antongub, @bnbakp0582, @cwatzl, @heoYH, @izeye, @kilink, @maartenc, @quaff, @rwinch, @valfirst, and @vbaidak