spring-projects/spring-framework v4.2.4.RELEASE

4.2.4 Release

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⭐ New Features

• Base64Utils: Support URL and filename safe alphabet (RFC 4648) [SPR-13784] #22188
• Provide an easy way to populate a request in MockMvc for form input scenarios [SPR-13801] #18374
• Defensive error reporting when ConfigurationClassParser introspects declared methods via StandardAnnotationMetadata [SPR-13791] #18364
• ReflectionUtils cache uses up a fairly big chunk of heap even [SPR-13783] #18357
• Allow for setting TTL on a response sent by @JmsListener [SPR-13774] #18348
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server driver version 4 and above [SPR-13772] #18346
• AbstractRequestLoggingFilter with startAsync: unwrap request to find ContentCachingRequestWrapper [SPR-13764] #18338
• Configure view controllers with the ApplicationContext [SPR-13762] #18335
• BeanFactoryAnnotationUtils.qualifiedBeanOfType should not instantiate all beans of given type before checking qualifier [SPR-13741] #18314
• Consistent bean type checking for endpoint handlers [SPR-13725] #18298
• Add JSR 310 Period and Duration Converters [SPR-13721] #18294
• Cache detected factory methods in ObjectToObjectConverter [SPR-13703] #18278
• @ManagedOperationParameter not marked with @Target/@Retention/@Documented/@Repeatable [SPR-13700] #18275
• Allow SpelCompiler to compile MapAccessor expressions [SPR-13638] #18215
• Conversion support for java.time.YearMonth (as well as MonthDay) [SPR-13518] #18095
• Allow the ManagedResource/Attribute/Metric/Operation to be placed on interface [SPR-13138] #17729
• Allow setting custom ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner on AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext [SPR-9324] #13962
• Add conversion support for Joda Duration and Period [SPR-6706] #11372

🪲 Bug Fixes

• java.lang.NullPointerException at org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultHandlers.(MockM‌​vcResultHandlers.java:44) [SPR-13802] #18375
• VersionResourceResolver's versionStrategyMap should keep insertion order [SPR-13798] #18371
• Jdbc4SqlXmlHandler should return null as documented (instead of throwing NPE) [SPR-13782] #18356
• VerifyError when trying to compile constructor invocation with SpEL [SPR-13781] #18355
• Regression: HttpEntityMethodProcessor does not allow other Http methods than defined in the HttpMethod Enum [SPR-13776] #18350
• MessagingMessageListenerAdapter provides a BytesMessage that has already been read [SPR-13769] #18343
• Inefficient and inconsistent setAllowedOrigins collection types in AbstractSockJsService/OriginHandshakeInterceptor [SPR-13761] #18334
• allowed-origins are not resolved from properties variables [SPR-13760] #18333
• ControllerAdviceBean javadoc is inconsistent with its implementation [SPR-13759] #18332
• ResourceUrlEncodingFilter improperly encodes URLs on root page [SPR-13757] #18330
• Second call to MVC handler method with Optional parameter fails with argument type mismatch [SPR-13755] #18328
• MockHttpServletResponse.setIntHeader throws exception for 'Content-Length' header [SPR-13752] #18325
• The URL content negotiation "format" parameter values are case sensitive and only lowercase values are accepted [SPR-13747] #18320
• SubProtocolWebSocketHandler does not update lastSessionCheckTime [SPR-13745] #18318
• NoClassDefFoundError: org/joda/time/YearMonth for joda-time < 2 [SPR-13730] #18303
• CssLinkResourceTransformer is incompatible with FixedVersionStrategy VersionResourceResolver [SPR-13727] #18300
• Regression: AsyncAnnotationBeanPostProcessor fails on startup when encountering ambiguous TaskExecutor beans [SPR-13720] #18293
• Regression: ShallowEtagHeaderFilter does not add Etag header for ResponseEntity returning methods [SPR-13717] #18290
• Regression: UriTemplate does not match when URI ends with slash [SPR-13705] #18280
• SimpAnnotationMethodMessageHandler fails when no applicationDestinationPrefixes configured or Rabbit endpoint present [SPR-13704] #18279
• SynthesizedAnnotation is not visible from class loader [SPR-13696] #18271
• Regression: Spring on WildFly causing ClassNotFoundException in ASM when deployed outside of EAR [SPR-13695] #18270
• HTTP Range requests hang on large file in nested jar [SPR-13661] #18236
• EventListenerMethodProcessor resolves classes of lazy beans causing NoClassDefFoundError [SPR-13712] #17619
• SpEL compiler creating bad byte code for some values that are added together via OpPlus [SPR-12426] #17032

📔 Documentation

• Documentation is missing for sendTimeLimit bufferSizeLimit for ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator [SPR-13753] #18326
• Cacheable#key should define the available arguments [SPR-13746] #18319