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

v6.1.0

⭐ New Features

• When using Oracle, JdbcClient.update(KeyHolder) does not work without explicit key column names #31607
• Introduce way to convert ClientHttpResponse to desired type #31597
• Property-driven onRefresh exit for AppCDS purpose #31595
• No Micrometer traceId in JMS listener container errorHandler #31559
• Register Hibernate @EmbeddableInstantiators registered on JPA embeddables for reflection #31534
• Improve method validation support for errors on elements within a container #31530
• Support pattern matching for method names in ControlFlowPointcut #31435
• Review reachability metadata contributions after GraalVM changes #31213
• handleEmptyBody of RequestBodyAdvice should apply also when content-type is not set #30522

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Regression with @EnableJpaAuditing using Spring Boot 3.2-RC2 in native image #31575
• Retrieving the response body as a List of POJOs fails with RestClient but passes with WebTestClient #31574
• ExecutorLifecycleDelegate should call ExecutorService.isTerminated() in ?.isRunning() #31549
• RestTemplate POST to endpoint using Digest Auth no longer works in 6.1 #31516
• Code generation for constructor arguments must cast null indexed argument value #31508
• \n in form model when using Jetty 12 client and multipart/form-data #31361
• Add status handler to recognize unknown status codes outside of 4xx/5? #31202

📔 Documentation

• Document how to log @Sql scripts and statements #31589
• Link to KDoc API documentation from Javadoc overview #31587
• Fix link in Javadoc of ConfigurableMockMvcBuilder #31542
• Add note about @[Enabled|Disabled]InNativeImage in reference manual #31438
• Document @DisabledInAotMode in the reference manual #31437
• Document @Sql class-level execution phase support in the reference manual #31377
• Document that Micrometer's "error" tag should be preferred vs. legacy "exception" tag #31514

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Context Propagation 1.1.0 #31599
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.20 #31539
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.0 #31556
• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.0 #31557

❤️ Contributors

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

@Young-Zen, @duesenklipper, @izeye, @k-seth, and @wakingrufus

v6.0.14

⭐ New Features

• Provide caching for HandlerMappingIntrospector lookups #31588
• Log4jLog needs to re-resolve ExtendedLogger on deserialization (for compatibility with Log4J 2.21) #31582
• Optimize StandardTypeLocator for hotspot when the same classes are resolved #31579
• Add duplicate key exception error code for SAP HANA database #31554
• Do not delegate TRACE to HttpServlet on ERROR dispatch #31457
• Add properties setter to ProblemDetail #31430

🐞 Bug Fixes

• GeneratedFiles#addSource does not provide proper context if the specified class name is invalid #31612
• MessageBuilder#createMessage should not define the payload as @Nullable #31610
• Default Mixin added by Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder are missing required runtime hints #31606
• NettyDataBuffer#toByteBuffer fails if readPosition > 0 #31605
• Avoid duplicate JAR resources in PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver on MS Windows #31598
• NamedParameterUtils broken parsing related to square brackets #31596
• Multipart cleanup is done too eagerly #31567
• Jakarta validation field constraints in superclass are ignored in native image #31552
• Function column out doesn't resolve to SqlOutParameter #31550
• Restore support for recursive annotations in Kotlin #31518
• Resolve to empty MultiValueMap when no matrix variables are provided #31483
• ProxyFactoryBean declaration may lead to unexpected non-fatal "FactoryBean threw exception from getObjectType" stacktrace output #31473
• Use of @Value in compact constructor of a record should not register method injection #31433
• Prevent duplicate HTTP server observations for cancelled exchanges #31417
• Spring MVC raises MissingPathVariableException resulting in 500 instead of 400 error when path segment is u001F or u00D and cannot be converted to target type UUID #31382
• Ensure consistent value count in ConcurrentReferenceHashMap#Segment #31373
• HeaderContentNegotiationStrategy.resolveMediaTypes throws unexpected IllegalArgumentException #31254
• Session Cookie in Reactive WebSession is not deleted if maxAge is set through cookie initializer (e.g. via Boot application property) #31214
• DefaultWebClient logs URI without the port number #30519
• CGLIB BeanCopier falls back to ClassLoader.defineClass for public target #28699
• BeanUtils.copyProperties() consumes large amount of memory #27246

📔 Documentation

• RestTemplate initialization documentation in 6.0.x mentions Netty, yet no ClientHttpRequestFactory is present in the package. #31526
• Correct typo in annotations.adoc #31519
• Document X-Forwarded-* Headers #31491
• Improve support and documentation for the "default" bean definition profile name #29071
• Document that pertypewithin is supported by Spring AOP #25887
• Document alternatives of using multiple PropertyPlaceholderConfigurers [SPR-9989] #14623

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.13 #31586
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.13 #31585

❤️ Contributors

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

@CrotchBurnt, @GVictorG7, @PiotrFLEURY, @baratrax, @bernie-schelberg-invicara, @huyachigege, @izeye, @lorenzsimon, @martin-lukas, and @rwinch

v5.3.31

⭐ New Features

• Log4jLog needs to re-resolve ExtendedLogger on deserialization (for compatibility with Log4J 2.21) #31583

🐞 Bug Fixes

• MessageBuilder#createMessage should not define the payload as @Nullable #31611
• Avoid duplicate JAR resources in PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver on MS Windows #31603
• Spring web integration commons fileupload receives files and other parameter uploads, with a null pointer #31564
• Function column out doesn't resolve to SqlOutParameter #31560
• Resolve to empty MultiValueMap when no matrix variables are provided #31484
• BeanUtils.copyProperties() consumes large amount of memory #31481
• CGLIB BeanCopier falls back to ClassLoader.defineClass for public target #31436
• R2DBC Connection is closed during transaction when using TransactionAwareConnectionFactoryProxy #31411
• HibernateJpaDialect and HibernateExceptionTranslator throw SQLExceptionTranslator-provided exception instead of returning it #31410
• NamedParameterJdbcTemplate throws unexpected exception for null query #31394
• LazyResolutionMessage does not implement proper toString #31385
• Illegal reflective access in ContextOverridingClassLoader.isEligibleForOverriding #31233

📔 Documentation

• Clarify documentation for @Transactional on interfaces #31401
• Default behavior of BeanPropertyRowMapper.getColumnValue(ResultSet, int, Class) inconsistent with code #31349
• Referencing a @Bean method in a @Configuration class' @PostConstruct method leads to circular reference #31339
• Incorrect reference information about CGLIB supported method visibility #31311

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.38 #31584

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...