spring-projects/spring-framework v5.2.0.RC2 on GitHub

⭐ New Features

Invalid partial content requests possible with start byte = resource-byte-count #23576
Support invoking static methods with ReflectionTestUtils.invokeMethod() #23504
Detect ClientHttpConnector to use by checking classpath #23493
Remove statusCode state from ContentCachingResponseWrapper #23490
Fix "array index out of bounds" problem reported by LGTM.com #23485
Explicit attribute overrides configured via @AliasFor not supported for components picked up via component scanning #23402
Provide a way to predict bean types without initializing FactoryBeans #23374
Pre-allocate NoTransactionException in TransactionContextManager #23360
Use System.nanoTime() instead of System.currentTimeMillis() in StopWatch #23235
Correct encoding and decoding of "message/x.rsocket.routing.v0" #23137
Add support for Coroutines transactions #22915

Cannot use relative path following placeholder in @TestPropertySource locations #23544
Spring Webflux 5.2.0.M2 - Kotlin coroutines - ServerRequest.awaitPrincipal always null #22986

Fix typos related to indefinite articles #23555
Adding Kotlin code examples to Testing documentation. #23545
Add @since for getCacheFilter and setCacheFilter #23519
Wiki build instructions for local Maven repo are outdated #23517
Fix unmatched parenthesis in the documentation of ContextHierarchy #23487
Modify the javadoc of @EnableWebFlux annotation #23457
Kotlin examples in Spring Core docs should use extension functions with reified types #23456
Improve language-switch CSS #23454
Fix data access documentation typo #23450
Fix / in Javadoc #23439
Reference documentation for ContextClosedEvent is misleading #23436
Reference documentation for @Autowired's required attribute is misleading #23428
Provide code samples in Kotlin in addition to Java [SPR-17245] #21778

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