v7.0.0-M9

⭐ New Features

• Align JpaTransactionManager default for nestedTransactionAllowed flag #35457
• Introduce onRetryPolicyInterruption() callback in RetryListener #35442
• Add DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer for SQLite #35440
• Consistent support for non-default NIO.2 FileSystems #35435
• Include exceptions for previous attempts in RetryException thrown for an InterruptedException #35434
• Include current exception in log message for failed retry attempt #35433
• Remove HttpServiceClient Annotation Support #35431
• Deprecate put(MergedContextConfiguration, ApplicationContext) in ContextCache #35415
• ServerSentEventHttpMessageReader should process empty data lines #35412
• Make it possible to stream "application/grpc" in Spring MVC via Flux #35401
• Add createException method to ConvertibleClientHttpResponse in RestClient #35391
• Consider throwing an error if setVersionRequired and setDefaultVersion are called on ApiVersionConfigurer #35387
• Accept maxAttempts(0) in RetryPolicy builder #35362
• Generate consistent validation error messages in RetryPolicy #35355
• Drop support for Undertow as it is not Servlet 6.1 compatible #35354
• Expose retry attempts in RetryException #35351
• RetryException#getCause should not be nullable #35332
• Refine CORS logging for non-processed requests due to no CORS configuration #35314
• Refine Jackson 3 constructors to accept only JsonMapper instances for JSON #35282
• Revise StartupStep to implement AutoCloseable #35277
• Add compression support in JdkClientHttpRequestFactory #35225
• Add support for Micrometer context propagation in Kotlin coroutines #35185
• Add support for Forwarded By HTTP header #34683
• Update HttpStatus to align with RFC9110 where relevant #32870
• ContextCache should close evicted context before loading new context #21007

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Refine Nullness for Kotlin functions returning Unit #35420
• Invalid Nullness information for Kotlin properties #35419
• ApiVersionConfigurer.setVersionRequired(...) does not result in MissingApiVersionException #35386
• RestTestClient returns null response body #35385
• Interface client methods that return InputStreams do not throw exceptions on bad HTTP status codes #35375
• @Retryable cannot be used with with @HttpServiceClient due to NullPointerException #35353
• Wrong PathPattern parsing for segments ending in '**' #35339
• RetryTemplate should officially expose RetryException to RetryListener.onRetryPolicyExhaustion() #35334
• Restore mixed usage support with uri() and queryParam() for query parameters in AbstractMockHttpServletRequestBuilder.buildRequest() #35329
• Kotlinx Serialization doesn't work when using ResponseEntity #35281
• "Failed to read candidate component class" with classfile metadata reading #35252

📔 Documentation

• Docs: Rework mvc-jsp section with JavaConfig example (per review feedback) #35444
• Document programmatic retry support in the reference manual #35436
• Improve reference docs on API versioning by path #35421
• Fix typo in websocket doc #35393
• Refine null-safety tooling introduction #35383
• Fix @HttpServiceClient example in reference manual #35363
• Improve wording for transactional rollback rule semantics #35346
• Document semantics of RetryException regarding cause and suppressed exceptions #35337
• Formatting issue in RestTestClient documentation #35328

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 3.0.0-rc9 and 2.20.0 #35439
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.1.0 #35345
• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.2.20 #35414
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.16.0-M3 #35453
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.0-M7 #35452

❤️ Contributors

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

@Dongnyoung, @J-unStiN, @NeatGuyCoding, @gustaavv, @izeye, @remeio, @shakuzen, and @spicydev

v6.2.11

⭐ New Features

• Missing @Nullable on JsonPathAssertions.isEqualTo #35445
• Graceful fallback for non-default NIO.2 FileSystems #35443
• Avoid thread pinning in SseEmitter, ResponseBodyEmitter #35423
• Detect Informix error codes as DuplicateKeyException #35400
• Inconsistent nullability for String value arguments in ResponseCookie from*() factory methods #35377
• Revisit taskTerminationTimeout semantics on SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor/Scheduler #35372
• StandardEvaluationContext.setBeanResolver should allow @Nullable BeanResolver #35371

🐞 Bug Fixes

• "mainThreadPrefix = null " Causing multiple background bean locks to be blocked #35409
• Annotation not found on parameter in overridden method unless method is public #35349
• Annotations on overridden methods not found in type hierarchy with unresolved generics #35342
• Performance degradation when using singleton beans with Provider #35330
• JettyClientHttpConnector buffer leak in Spring Framework 6.2 #35319
• Spring application hangs on shutdown with @Scheduled(cron=…) when custom ScheduledExecutorService bean is defined (Java 19+) #35316

📔 Documentation

• Document potential need to use Mockito.doXxx() to stub a @MockitoSpyBean #35410
• Fix links to Reactive Libraries and RestTemplate #35392
• Fix broken link in WebDriver docs #35374
• Document Web DataBinder support for RouterFunction #35367
• Improve documentation for ApplicationEvents to clarify recommended usage #35335
• Document terms and units in DataSize.parse() #35298
• Refine @Contract Javadoc #35285
• Correct the default value of nestedTransactionAllowed in JpaTransactionManager javadoc #35212

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.11 #35455
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.10 #35454

❤️ Contributors

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

@Dockerel, @Kehrlann, @acktsap, @khj68, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @scordio, and @sgflt

v7.0.0-M8

⭐ New Features

• Only add httpServiceProxyRegistry bean when necessary #35307
• Introduce @Proxyable annotation for bean-specific proxy type #35296
• Introduce bean definition attribute for enforcing an interface-based proxy #35293
• Let Spring Boot consistently switch to CGLIB proxies for any proxy processor (including @Retryable, @Async etc.) #35286
• HTTP method support in MappedInterceptor #35273
• Post process outgoing messages in JmsClient #35271
• Introduce ConfigurableApplicationContext.pause() and SmartLifecycle.isPauseable() #35269
• Provide support to configure request interceptors in RestTestClient #35268
• Provide more control over validation in DefaultApiVersionStrategy #35267
• PathApiVersionResolver should not be nullable #35265
• Replace useRequestParam with useQueryParam in ApiVersionConfigurer to align with client #35263
• Add support for MediaType in ApiVersionInserter #35259
• ApiVersionConfigurer misconfiguration is hard to detect when no version resolvers are added #35256
• Support HttpServiceClient annotation #35244
• Prefer mapping without version for requests without a version #35237
• Provide @WebSocketScope annotation and public SCOPE_WEBSOCKET constant (for consistency with @RequestScope and co) #35235
• Allow getting receipt from StompSession.Subscription.unsubscribe() #35224
• Support wildcard path elements at the start of path patterns #35213
• Improve handling of request parameter without values in MockMvc #35210
• Display original request URI in NoResourceFoundException message #34553
• Add RestTestClient #34428
• Support Hibernate StatelessSession [SPR-2495] #7184

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix JacksonJsonSockJsMessageCodec imports #35309
• IllegalStateException: No API version attribute #35236

📔 Documentation

• Document constraints for HTTP range requests #35227

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.1 #35308
• Upgrade to Jackson 3.0.0-rc6 and 2.19.2 #35228
• Upgrade to Jackson 3.0.0-rc8 and 2.20.0-rc1 #35295
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.1.0.beta3 #35233
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.16.0-M2 #35311
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.0-M6 #35310

❤️ Contributors

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

@FBibonne, @NeatGuyCoding, @SRIRAM9487, @Songdoeon, @philwebb, and @rworsnop

v6.2.10

⭐ New Features

• Optimize NIO path resolution in PathEditor #35304
• Make type in ProblemDetail nullable #35294
• Refine UriUtils#decode and StringUtils#uriDecode implementation and documentation #35253
• Provide configurable useCaches option for URLConnection usage in UrlResource (avoiding jar file leak) #35218

🐞 Bug Fixes

• @Scheduled tasks running in SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler are interrupted immediately on context close #35254
• ScriptUtils.executeSqlScript() does not support multiple results per statement #35248
• Successful Autowiring Dependent on Configuration ordering and Primary Bean flag #35239
• Locale parameter in MessageSource#getMessage methods should be nullable #35230
• Allow any @Transactional propagation for @TransactionalEventListener with BEFORE_COMMIT phase #35150
• Catalog name should be handled with the provided case #35064
• Accept support for generated keys column name array on HSQLDB and Derby as well #34790
• Handle direct CanncelationException on timeout in JdkClientHttpRequest #34721

📔 Documentation

• Add documentation of RequestMapping about SpEL #35232
• Document SqlBinaryValue behaviour with PostgreSQL #34786

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.10 #35313
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.9 #35312

❤️ Contributors

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

@Allan-QLB, @carsago, @cw-dimedis, and @giampa91

v7.0.0-M7

⭐ New Features

• LocalDataSourceJobStore should re-initialize statically registered Quartz ConnectionProvider on context restart #35208
• Make rootObject parameter consistently nullable #35206
• Refine multipart converter registration in HttpMessageConverters #35203
• Introduce getSource() in ApplicationContextEvent with covariant return type #35197
• Introduce ContextRestartedEvent as a subtype of ContextStartedEvent #35194
• Align HttpMessageConverters builder with WebFlux codecs variants #35187
• Transaction-scoped resource binding in TransactionSynchronizationManager #35182
• Use flexible generics nullness in RestClient.RequestHeadersSpec.ExchangeFunction #35180
• Introduce ConfigurableApplicationContext.restart() method #35171
• Pause unused application contexts in the TestContext framework #35168
• Skip initialization of a NullBean #35165
• Short-circuit matching algorithm in InstanceFilter #35161
• Support direct matching against exceptions in ExceptionTypeFilter #35160
• InstanceFilter and ExceptionTypeFilter should set matchIfEmpty to true by default #35158
• Require explicit constraints in @Contract #35157
• Specify fetchSize/maxRows/queryTimeout per statement in JdbcClient #35155
• Include MethodParameter[] parameters in HttpRequestValues.Processor #35148
• Deprecate DaoSupport classes #35145
• Remove maxDuration/maxElapsedTime support from RetryPolicy #35144
• Introduce @ConcurrencyLimit annotation based on ConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor #35133
• Consistently implement toString() in BackOff strategies #35120
• Support API versioning for functional endpoints #35113
• Migrate orm.hibernate5 to orm.jpa.hibernate package for Hibernate ORM 7.0 #35111
• Redesign RetryPolicy to directly incorporate BackOff #35110
• Ability to limit list of supported API versions to explicitly configured ones for Spring MVC #35105
• Refine nullability of PropertyResolver.getProperty(key: String) extension #35104
• Support for exposing additional object types in SmartFactoryBean #35101
• Add missing @Nullable to MethodInvoker::setArguments parameter #35089
• Support @RequestBody in interface method when computing "consumes" condition #35086
• Consistent validation of supported API versions #35082
• Resolve optional HandlerMethod parameter of @ExceptionHandler method to null #35067
• Add ability to decorate HttpExchangeAdapter through HttpServiceProxyFactory #35059
• Introduce Builder API and factory methods for RetryPolicy #35058
• Revise RetryTemplate for alignment with Reactor (in preparation for @Retryable) #35057
• Add ApiVersionResolver based on parameter in media type #35050
• Support deprecation information in API versioning #35049
• Add support for configuring SslInfo in WebTestClient #35042
• Make built-in RetryPolicy implementations final #35040
• Specify flexible generics nullness in spring-jdbc #34911
• Allow usage of @CheckReturnValue on types and constructors #34910
• Support repeatable writes in FormHttpMessageConverter#writeMultipart #34859
• Convert applicable methods in Scope to default methods #34757
• Add public method to get bean order #34712
• Discard further rows once maxRows has been reached #34709
• Support DefaultWebFilterChain allowing the current filter to provide its name explicitly #34702
• API Versioning Support #34565
• Introduce @Retryable AOP support (based on core.retry and Reactor retry functionality) #34529
• Revisit converters and codecs default setup in HTTP stacks #33894
• ConfigurationBeanNameGenerator for @Bean-annotated methods #33448
• Qualified EntityManager/EntityManagerFactory injection (aligned with Jakarta Persistence 3.2) #33414
• Introduce JmsClient with customizable send/receive operations #32501
• Allow conditional handling of 404 with HTTP Interface clients #32105
• Allow to set TTL (and other QoS-related settings) on a per-message (and/or per-send) basis #26840

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Allow ordering of HttpMessageConverterss through WebMvcConfigurer.configureMessageConverters(HttpMessageConverters.Builder) #35177
• Content-Disposition response header duplicated for failed StreamingResponseBody #35116
• CachingMetadataReaderFactory does not cache all metadatareader calls #35112
• sslInfo() should return the builder for MockServerHttpRequest #35075
• HttpService group adapters could not be instantiated in a native image #35038

📔 Documentation

• Improve URLs in Validation chapter of the reference manual #35181
• Update Spring MVC message converters documentation #35166
• Add a note about Field/Method vs. TYPE_USE annotations in reference docs #35098
• Document intention of toString() in HandlerMethod #35055
• Add section in docs on byte-range requests in Spring MVC and WebFlux #35052

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jetty 12.1.0.beta1 #35084
• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.2.0 #34453
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.16.0-M1 #35170
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.0-M5 #35169

❤️ Contributors

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

@Allan-QLB, @NeatGuyCoding, @OlgaMaciaszek, @Pankraz76, @izeye, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @quaff, @remeio, @renatomameli, @scordio, and @wonyongg

v6.2.9

⭐ New Features

• OncePerRequestFilter cannot be CGLib-proxied #35198
• Consistently catch InaccessibleObjectException next to IllegalAccessException #35190
• Introduce Date-to-Instant and Instant-to-Date converters #35175
• Consistent nullability and exception declarations in AbstractMessagingTemplate hierarchy #35159
• Register runtime hints for Instant-to-Timestamp conversion #35156
• Improve handling of ResponseEntity<?> in Spring MVC #35153
• Support @CacheConfig("myCacheName") declarations for simplified configuration #35152
• Declare messageSelector parameters in JmsOperations as @Nullable #35151
• Add getter for OverflowStrategy in ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator #35132
• Use preset Content-Type for streaming and reactive responses in Spring MVC #35130
• Leniently tolerate null @Aspect bean #35074
• DataAccessResourceFailureException thrown when transaction times out on PostgreSQL #35073
• MethodInvokingFactoryBean fails to invoke publicly exported methods overridden by internal classes when using JPMS #34028

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Restore preference for interface (most abstract) method in getPubliclyAccessibleMethodIfPossible #35189
• Make targetBeanName field in AbstractBeanFactoryBasedTargetSource protected to avoid exceptions in logging and toString() #35172
• Fix inconsistencies in StaticListableBeanFactory #35119
• Support StreamingHttpOutputMessage in RestClient #35102
• When building DELETE requests, the request body is not used in JdkClientHttpRequest.buildRequest #35068
• AOT-generated bean registration file contains "too many constants" when building with many beans #35044
• Prevent cache pollution by storing only the factories #34732
• WebFlux decodes wildcard content-types as form-data/multipart #34660
• AOT-generated CGLib proxies do not contain method overrides #34642
• 500 response for ResourceHttpRequestHandler when requested range is not satisfied #34490

📔 Documentation

• Document how to register runtime hints for convention-based conversion #35178
• Link to @ContextConfiguration Javadoc from reference manual #35088

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to JUnit 5.13.3 #35103
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.9 #35202
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.8 #35201

❤️ Contributors

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

@Meijuh, @RazorNd, @chenggwang, @izeye, @mjd507, @ngocnhan-tran1996, and @philwebb

v7.0.0-M6

⭐ New Features

• Allow FixedBackOff to be constructed with only a custom interval #35028
• Use String.replace in MetadataEncoder #35025
• Revise @Nullable declarations for contains*() methods in CollectionUtils #35023
• Introduce JacksonJsonMessageConverter.getObjectMapper() #34963
• Remove (String, String) variants of setProperty() and withProperty() from MockEnvironment #34948
• Allow access to env from SupplierContextDsl #34943
• Consistently declare nullability @Contract for core utilities #34934
• Update HttpServiceGroupConfigurer API #34926
• Make ProblemDetailJacksonXmlMixin compatible with Jackson 3 #34925
• Introduce hints in RestClient API #34924
• Add Kotlin body advices #34923
• Add support for callable references to BeanRegistrarDsl #34922
• Additional updates for API versioning in test and client support #34919
• Define nullability @Contract for quote and getFilename in StringUtils #34896
• Support @Import on interfaces #34820
• Use HexFormat in CharacterEditor #34798
• Use HexFormat in ContentDisposition #34797
• Introduce minimal retry functionality as a core framework feature #34716
• Add support for "application/*+x-protobuf" media type #34645
• Support OutputStream and InputStream in HTTP Interface clients #32358

🐞 Bug Fixes

• @Contract for SupplierUtils.resolve(Supplier) incorrectly declares !null -> !null #34987
• Consistent null check on injection points for pre-existing singleton beans #34952

📔 Documentation

• Refine null-safety documentation terms #34982
• Stop referring to JUnit 5 in documentation #34970
• Fix typos in API versioning #34961
• Add missing since attributes for @Deprecated declarations #34942
• Improve Javadoc for getFilename() and getFilenameExtension() in StringUtils #34932
• Add documentation for HTTP service proxy registry #34912
• Update outdated JettyHttpHandlerAdapter example in reference documentation #34877

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 3.0.0-rc5 #34945
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.1.0.beta0 #34930
• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.2.0-RC2 #34946
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.15.1 #35019
• Upgrade to Netty v4.2.2.Final and Reactor 2025.0.0-SNAPSHOT #34996
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.0-M4 #34997

❤️ Contributors

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

@Tussle0410, @doroszkiewicz, @fmbenhassine, @hgh1472, @izeye, @kilink, @kssumin, @kwondh5217, @quaff, @scottfrederick, and @violetagg

v6.2.8

⭐ New Features

• Nullability @Contract declaration for CodeFlow.isIntegerForNumericOp() is unnecessary #34985
• Serializer hint registration is broken for some Kotlin classes #34979
• Clients created using JdkClientHttpRequestFactory set content-length for GET, DELETE and HEAD requests #34971
• Support registration of non-public BeanDefinitionReader via @ImportResource #34928
• Make max size for pattern cache in PathPatternMatchableHandlerMapping configurable #34918
• Add optimized DataBufferInputStream overrides #34799

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Encode non-printable character in Content-Disposition parameter #35034
• Allow update of existing WebSession after max sessions limit is reached #35013
• Fix support for collections in AbstractKotlinSerializationHttpMessageConverter #34992
• PathPattern#combine throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException #34986
• Fix AOT code generation for autowired inner class constructor #34974
• AbstractFileResolvingResource.exists closes JAR resource input streams with v6.2.7 #34955
• Enhanced configuration class fails to call package-visible superclass constructor on WebSphere #34950
• Fix REPLY_CHANNEL header check in MessageHeaderAccessor #34949
• MockEnvironment does not accept Object property values #34947
• PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer no longer uses ConversionService from Environment #34936
• @Contract for StreamUtils.drain() incorrectly declares null results in an exception #34933
• Inconsistent behavior injecting null @Bean factory parameter #34929
• MockHttpServletRequest.addHeader duplicates "Content-Type" header #34913
• BeanUtils.getParameterNames fails for Kotlin data classes #34760
• JAXB message converters ignore Content-Type charset #34745
• Aspect Not Triggered After Restart in Spring Boot 3.4.x (But Works in 3.3.10) #34735
• Add caching headers to unmodified static resources #34614

📔 Documentation

• Apply gh-34856 to MockClientHttpRequest in testfixture package #35031
• Fix ResourceHttpRequestHandler#setHeaders JavaDoc #35004
• Remove reference to AspectJ Eclipse Javadoc #35000
• Mention CompletableFuture in Spring MVC "Asynchronous Requests" section of reference manual #34991
• Fix exception name in ModelAttribute docs #34980
• Fix syntax in @SqlGroup example #34972
• Update X-Forwarded-Proto doc to say https / http #34959
• Update Guidance on Best Practices To Test Code That Uses RestClient and RestTemplate #34892
• Add a section for WebAsyncTask in mvc-ann-async.adoc #34885
• Clarify what @RestControllerAdvice vs @ControllerAdvice apply to by default #34866
• Improve Javadoc for @ExceptionHandler #34554

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to HttpComponents HttpClient 5.5 #34941
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.8 #35020
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.7 #35021

❤️ Contributors

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

@Allan-QLB, @Aurh1l, @BowieDu, @DhruvTheDev1, @Dongnyoung, @JimmyAx, @addoDev, @dmitrysulman, @izeye, @jjank, @kilink, @mbazos, @msnsaeed71, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @nosan, @remeio, @vpavic, and @yuzawa-san

v6.1.21

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Encode non-printable character in Content-Disposition parameter #35035
• Allow update of existing WebSession after max sessions limit is reached #35018
• Enhanced configuration class fails to call package-visible superclass constructor on WebSphere #34951

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Reactor 2023.0.19 #35022

v7.0.0-M5

⭐ New Features

• Deprecate PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and PreferencesPlaceholderConfigurer for removal #34880
• Add Consumer based variant methods to HttpRequestValues builder #34870
• Add defaultApiVersion to RestClient and WebClient builders #34857
• Evaluate system properties in default HttpClient in ReactorClientHttpRequestFactory #34850
• Use beanClassLoader in the HTTP Service Registrar #34846
• Deprecate JUnit 4 support in the Spring TestContext Framework #34794
• Ability to validate supported API versions only against explicitly configured ones #34775
• Revisit Jackson support #33798

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ClassFileAnnotationMetadata.fromTypeDescriptor(…) fails on Java 24 #34882
• Align ClassFileClassMetadata with other implementations #34869
• Incorrect filtering of groups with HttpServiceGroupConfigurer #34867
• Aggregated Javadoc no longer published since 7.0.0-M4 #34774

📔 Documentation

• Add Reference Documentation for API Versioning #34569

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.1.21 #34900
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.15.0 #34888
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.0-M3 #34897

❤️ Contributors

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

@dmitrysulman, @philwebb, and @siom79