spring-projects/spring-framework v5.1.7.RELEASE on GitHub

⭐ New Features

Support any HttpEntity implementing ResolvableTypeProvider #22931
Early out in PropertyPlaceholderHelper if no placeholder exists #22870
Don't throw an exception in CookieLocaleResolver, fallback to default locale instead #22861
Streamline ReactiveAdapterRegistry.getAdapter usage #22842
Consider logging classcast exceptions caused by lambdas at trace level #22834
Ensure flush after StreamingResponseBody #22813
Optimize writing with Mono Publisher #22800
Disable ShallowEtagHeaderFilter when ETag handled in application #22797
Avoid MessageFormat processing for default @Pattern validation message #22761
Avoid SourceClass creation for annotations that are always ignored #22750
Avoid expensive assertions in HttpRange #22742
Avoid exceptions in ReflectionUtils.isObjectMethod(…) #22730
Jackson2Tokenizer ignores USE_BIG_DECIMAL_FOR_FLOATS deserialization feature #22510
StringHttpMessageConverter will add all the default charsets even if Accept-Charset is set explicitly #22506
Fix CompletableFuture exception handling #22476

Fix EncoderHttpMessageWriter.isStreamingMediaType() #22936
Consistent handling of empty List entries in LinkedMultiValueMap #22912
Check if null before accessing exception message in webflux InvocableHandlerMethod#logArgumentErrorIfNecessary #22900
DefaultListableBeanFactory.destroySingleton(s) not thread-safe for manual singletons #22896
MockHttpServletRequest raises IndexOutOfBoundsException when Accept-Language is not set #22877
Avoid unguarded String concatenation for debug/trace logging #22874
[Regression] 404 without ACCEPT request header results in a 406 in Spring Framework 5.1.6 #22853
ResourceUrlEncodingFilter throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when %ED%B6 is in the URL path #22851
MockCookie.parse(String) mishandles case sensitivity #22786
WebClient fails to send POST body when ObjectMapper FLUSH_AFTER_WRITE_VALUE is false #22771
More leaks related to Mono.just(dataBuffer) or Flux.just(dataBuffer) #22754
Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder prevents the registration of multiple modules with a null typeId #22740
ProtobufEncoder and ProtobufDecoder buffer leaks #22731
o.s.h.server.reactive.ChannelSendOperator may leak the memory on cancel/error #22720
EL1072E when evaluating compiled comparison expression #22358
Got 404 with non-ASCII coded static resources in webflux #22272

NullPointerException in Base64Utils.encodeToString #22812
Remove the PROPAGATION_ prefix in the documentation of enum Propagation #22809
Inconsistent behavior when autowiring multiple beans by type as collection without matching beans #22735
Acknowledge that HttpHeaders are case-insensitive #22723

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!