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

v5.3.29

⭐ New Features

• Avoid illegal reflective access in ContextOverridingClassLoader.isEligibleForOverriding #30868
• Improve diagnostics for CGLIB ClassLoader issues with shared classes in parent ClassLoader #30866
• JdbcTemplate does not call handleWarnings in case of exception #30852
• Tolerate AnnotationUtils.isCandidateClass call with null as annotation type #30843
• Simplify DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.isDependent() #30841
• Provide explicit support for collections, maps, and arrays in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30811
• Extend list of supported types in ObjectUtils.nullSafeConciseToString() #30806
• Align ConcurrentMapCacheManager locking behavior with CaffeineCacheManager #30781
• ResolvableType.hasUnresolvableGenerics() should cache its result #30715
• Ensure Spring LogFactory contains all public methods from Apache LogFactory #30711
• Translate SQL Exception with State S0001 and Vendor Code 2628 to a Spring Exception in MSSQL 2019 #30682

🐞 Bug Fixes

• For a prototype bean, if first-time rejected value is null, subsequent value will wrongly be null always #30809
• Revert changes to toString() in FieldError #30800
• Fix log level on error with @TransactionalEventListener #30784
• SerializableTypeWrapper does not consistently catch InvocationTargetException #30767
• NPE in MvcUriComponentsBuilder with no-arg target method on interface #30757
• Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder breaks when modules customizer follows modulesToInstall #30752
• Spring ORM SpringBeanContainer when trying to create a bean fails with not found bean definition, and fallbacks to default hibernate bean creation #30685

📔 Documentation

• ResultSet holdability into the View layer broken by Hibernate 5 #30863
• Clarify ReactiveTransactionManager exception declarations #30819
• Doc: JdbcTransactionManager vs DataSourceTransactionManager #30814

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.34 #30873

v5.2.25.RELEASE

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Reintroduce support for null SpEL expressions #30464
• Make maximum SpEL expression length configurable #30452

v6.1.0-M1

⭐ New Features

• Consistent simple value type check (including UUID treatment for data binding) #30664
• Release shared JMS Connection when message listener container is stopped #30612
• Property-driven onRefresh checkpoint during application context bootstrap #30606
• Support letters other than A-Z in identifiers in SpEL expressions #30580
• Remove System.out calls in PreComputeFieldFeature #30571
• Have the ErrorResponse.Builder take in a custom ProblemDetail instance #30568
• Allow setting the ProblemDetail.type via a MessageSource #30566
• ClientHttpRequestFactory based on Jetty HttpClient #30564
• Remove buffering in ClientHttpRequestFactory implementations #30557
• Support JAXBElement in Jaxb2XmlEncoder #30552
• Disable SpEL selector support in WebSocket messaging by default #30550
• Enforce JPA bootstrap failure for incomplete Hibernate Validator setup #30549
• Support parsing long dates in InstantFormatter #30546
• Port BeanPropertyRowMapper and DataClassRowMapper for r2dbc #30530
• Add non-null precondition checks in DefaultEntityResponseBuilder #30433
• Deprecate spring-context-indexer #30431
• Update RuntimeHintsAgentPlugin to use the native image code path #30422
• HTTP interface client should not have blockingTimeout set and leave it to the underlying client by default #30403
• Improve toString() for Profiles.of() implementation #30374
• Add ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource Resource selection hook #30369
• Optimize DefaultLifecycleProcessor::stopBeans #30361
• Deprecate AutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(Class, int, boolean) for consistent usage of createBean(Class) #30345
• Support setCharacterEncoding(null) in MockHttpServletResponse #30341
• Add support for converting a String to an Instant #30312
• Refine RouterFunctionMapping ordering consistency #30278
• CRaC Resource adapter for bean lifecycle in application context #30242
• Configuration options for virtual threads #30241
• Support for SequencedCollection/Set/Map #30239
• MethodArgumentNotValidException::errorsToStringList should include only the resolved message when MessageSource is used #30198
• Support @XmlSeeAlso in Jaxb2XmlDecoder #30167
• Add SpEL support for registered MethodHandles #30045
• Add test support to record async events, with JUnit Jupiter caveat #30020
• Returning a CompletableFuture.failure() from an async, transactional method should mark the transaction as roll back #30018
• Support @Scheduled on Reactive methods and Kotlin suspending functions #29924
• Compatibility with JVM checkpoint restore (OpenJDK's Project CRaC) #29921
• Validator factory methods with BiConsumer #29890
• Spring MVC and WebFlux method validation support that also adapts ConstraintViolations #29825
• Remove LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer #29559
• Avoid use of java.net.URL constructors #29481
• Creating relative resource for URL resource should create relative Resource even if relative path has URL in it #28522
• ModelAttributeMethodArgumentResolver does not support custom field binding for immutable objects #28284
• ConcurrentTaskScheduler and ConcurrentTaskExecutor can create an executor with no way to shut it down #27914
• R2DBC ConnectionFactory bean .close() method should be called/subscribed when available #26991
• org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ReactiveTypeHandler does not handle vendor-specific application/x-ndjson media types #26817
• Improve the experience of handling validation errors in controller methods #26219
• Compatibility with virtual threads (OpenJDK's Project Loom) #23443
• Avoid repeated attempts to load a failing ApplicationContext in the TestContext framework [SPR-9548] #14182

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Retain profiles used when running AOT #30421
• Automatic context propagation stops working after an error occurs #30013

📔 Documentation

• Introduce JVM checkpoint/restore support documentation #30647
• Fix link in Javadoc of PassThroughFilterChain #30365
• Clarify behavior of the Elvis SpEL operator in documentation #30352
• Fix link to releases feed #30340

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.15 #30665
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.8 #29754
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.7 #30514
• Upgrade to Kotlin Serialization 1.5 #30515
• Upgrade to SnakeYAML 2.0 #30048

❤️ Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @RemusRD, @aooohan, @asomov, @izeye, @jstansel, @kzander91, @luohongtu, @making, @rwinch, and @srivatsa-cfp

v6.0.10

⭐ New Features

• ClassLoader can be null in DeserializingConverter and should be annotated with @Nullable #30670
• Introduce TestExecutionListener for Micrometer's ObservationRegistry in the TestContext framework #30658
• Add missing hint for ResourceEditor #30628
• Add missing hint for converting String to URI #30627
• Redesign inner Pointcut implementations as standalone classes #30621
• Add missing @Nullable in DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory #30620
• Handle custom JMS acknowledgment modes as client acknowledge #30619
• Declare Advisor#isPerInstance() as default method #30614
• Improve error message for unsupported character in SpEL expression #30602
• Multipart data is always read irrelevant of handler response #30590
• Performance optimization in AbstractBeanFactoryBasedTargetSource.hashCode() #30576
• Log a warning when commons-logging is in the classpath #30575
• Always use MethodArgumentNotValidException(MethodParameter, BindingResult) constructor #30558
• Remove non-empty filename check in ContentDisposition builder #30537
• Add missing EntityManagerFactory hints for SharedEntityManagerCreator #30523
• Disable Hibernate reflection optimizer with native #30521
• Introduce a method in MockHttpServletRequestBuilder to set remote address #30497
• Skip class transformer in PersistenceUnitInfoDescriptor for native images #30492
• @Bean 'lite' mode not supported if @Bean methods are not declared locally #30449
• Align HibernateJpaVendorAdapter with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #30288
• Add nested propagation support to R2dbcTransactionManager #30134

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Cron expression scheduling might be triggered 1 millisecond earlier #30666
• Change of behaviour for UUID in bean validation output in v5.3.27 #30661
• Test context cache stats are not logged when ApplicationContext fails to load #30635
• Inconsistent ProxyCallbackFilter#equals/hashCode methods in CglibAopProxy #30615
• SpEL's CompoundExpression.toStringAST() incorrectly includes . for indexed properties #30610
• NPE in ReactiveTransactionSupport.unwrapIfResourceCleanupFailure #30597
• CollectionFactory.createMap(HashMap.class, 0) now returns a LinkedHashMap rather than a HashMap #30596
• ThreadLocalTargetSource does not include actual target bean name in NamedThreadLocal #30581
• ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter inconsistently publishes events from CompletableFuture #30578
• Unsupported SQL type: TIMESTAMP_WITH_TIMEZONE when using OffsetDateTime with MySQL #30556
• SpringBeanContainer not called with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #30545
• WebFlux returns 406 instead of RFC 7807 response for subtype of ProblemDetail #30533
• HTTP Interface client cannot send URI query parameter with multipart request #30520
• Transaction isolation level not working with R2dbcTransactionManager #30508
• Support for AOT processing with GraalVM tracing agent is not consistent #30511
• For @Bean method that returns null, @Autowired injects NullBean instead of null for cached arguments #30485
• MediaType property binding issue in native builds #30491
• InjectionMetadata AOT contributions do not check for existing property value #30476
• Spring Framework 6.0.8 appears to cause issues in OSGi environment #30389
• Empty @RequestMapping method should match both "" and "/" consistently #30293
• EclipseLinkJpaDialect: Unexpected default isolation levels #29997
• Memory leak with CglibAopProxy$ProxyCallbackFilter #26266

📔 Documentation

• Fix markup issue in Javadoc of QuartzCronField #30646
• Document @DirtiesContext semantics when declared at the class level and method level #30623
• Add missing Javadoc for RegisteredBean.resolveAutowiredArgument() #30609
• Fix invalid link in transaction resources #30570
• FileSystemUtils::deleteRecursively Javadoc refers to File instead of Path #30554
• Improve Javadoc for ExchangeFilterFunction #30543
• Update Javadoc and reference doc for WebMvcConfigurer to mention Boot's HttpMessageConverters #30538
• Add Javadoc since to InjectedElement.shouldInject() #30512
• Fix wording in r2dbc Statement Filters section of ref docs #30482
• Typo in Spring official documentation #30473
• Link for @javax.annotation.Nonnull is wrong in Javadoc for Spring's @NonNull #30455
• Improve how the build deals with javadoc invalid references #30428
• Docs: Remove duplicate in SpEL feature list #30404
• Document which @Scheduled attributes support SpEL expressions #29290

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to micrometer-bom 1.10.8 and context-propagation 1.0.3 #30657
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.8 #30655

❤️ Contributors

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

@Foolkin, @anyuruf, @galingerv, @izeye, @jmewes, @kihyuk-sung, @leewin12, @marcingrzejszczak, @rweisleder, @rwinch, @scordio, @ssang1105, and @vpavic

v5.3.28

⭐ New Features

• ClassLoader can be null in DeserializingConverter and should be annotated with @Nullable #30672
• Performance optimization in AbstractBeanFactoryBasedTargetSource.hashCode() #30585
• Consistent support for MultiValueMap and common Map implementations in CollectionFactory #30441
• Reject null and empty SpEL expressions #30373
• Introduce Environment.matchesProfiles() for profile expressions #30226

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Change of behaviour for UUID in bean validation output in v5.3.27 #30662
• Spring Framework 5.3.27 appears to cause issues in OSGi environment #30637
• Inconsistent ProxyCallbackFilter#equals/hashCode methods in CglibAopProxy #30616
• EclipseLinkJpaDialect: Unexpected default isolation levels #30589
• ThreadLocalTargetSource does not include actual target bean name in NamedThreadLocal #30586
• ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter inconsistently publishes events from CompletableFuture #30584
• For @Bean method that returns null, @Autowired injects NullBean instead of null for cached arguments #30551
• Make maximum SpEL expression length configurable #30446
• Respect TaskDecorator configuration on DefaultManagedTaskExecutor #30443

📔 Documentation

• Document which @Scheduled attributes support SpEL expressions #30642
• FileSystemUtils::deleteRecursively Javadoc refers to File instead of Path #30555

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.33 #30656