spring-projects/spring-framework v5.2.4.RELEASE on GitHub

⭐ New Features

BlockHoundIntegration for spring-core #24581
Configure quiet period for shutting down Netty resources #24538
Consistent ROLE_INFRASTRUCTURE declarations for internal configuration classes #24509
Raise log level for exceptions from EntityManager close call #24501
ExecutorConfigurationSupport to allow millisecond precision for await termination period #24496
Improve assertion message in PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor #24484
BigDecimal in multi-value request body deserializes differently than single-value #24479
If controller method has produces="/" in 5.2.3 response is 500 instead of 406 #24466
SseEmitter cannot format text/plain if StringHttpMessageConverter is not configured #24465
Support command line arguments with an empty value #24464
AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter + Jackson 2.10: handle ValueInstantiationException properly #24455
Compatibility with JDK 14 #24453
Avoid opaque to hierarchical reset in UriComponentsBuilder when input is null #24444
Add Informix to supported database products for procedure calls #24443
Solve ReflectPermission issue in sandbox security policy model for repackaged CGLIB ReflectUtils #24420
Allow non-standard HttpStatus in reactive ServerHttpResponse #24400
Allow customizing default Smile codec via CodecConfigurer #24382
Simplify getCache() method in CaffeineCacheManager #24376
Expose property for handling of Ping frames with Reactor Netty WebSocket client and server #24367
Simplify getParsedSql() method in NamedParameterJdbcTemplate #24358
Provide control over formatting of request in HttpWebHandlerAdapter #24352
Add hook-point to exclude imported configuration classes #24175
Jackson2Decoder fails to determine correct target type from default interface method with a generic type #23791
Extra empty line a["\n"] messages from ActiveMQ STOMP broker #23713
Add a way to combine more than one AnnotationIntrospector in Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder instead of overriding it #22830
Add unique number to WebFlux log prefix for Reactor Netty server #22039

🪲 Bug Fixes

NullPointerException in MockHttpServletRequestBuilder for URI string with no protocol #24556
BeanPostProcessorChecker warning due to missing infrastructure role on ProxyTransactionManagementConfiguration #24508
spring-aspects has a compile dependency on spring-orm #24491
AbstractJackson2Decoder is not aware of jackson's non-blocking parser only supporting UTF-8 #24489
MockRestServiceServer reset does not clear failedRequests #24486
Prevent unnecessary refresh for InjectionMetadata.EMPTY #24485
"Status and headers already sent" ISE exception from Reactor Netty on WebSocket upgrade #24475
The new Encoder.encodeValue and Decoder.decode methods in spring 5.2 do not provide access to the Context #24441
Cycle in LogAdapter.Log4jLog initialization within log appender #24440
Negative byte values not properly converted to unsigned int in URI encoding #24413
ServerSentEventHttpMessageReader maps null when event has comment only. #24389
Nested annotations no longer supported in ASM-based annotation processing #24375
Explicit Content-Type Header in WebClient is overwritten by ResourceHttpMessageWriter #24366
Avoid setting special Content-* response headers in TomcatHeadersAdapter #24361
IncompatibleClassChangeError encountered on execution of compiled SPEL expressions #24357
JSON decoding error parsing stream encoded with Jackson Smile #24198

📔 Documentation

Improve documentation for @Autowired/@Value in @Configuration classes #24585
Fix formatting in webflux-webclient.adoc #24578
Clarify AbstractResourceBasedMessageSource.setCacheMillis vs java.util.ResourceBundle #24563
Correct Ant-style Patterns example in documentation #24552
Fix javadoc in DependencyDescriptor #24551
Correct formatting of MessageSource example in documentation #24531
Update advice on RestTemplate #24503
Upgrade to Spring Asciidoctor Extensions 0.4.0.RELEASE #24481
Fix typo in StringUtils class #24471
Polish documentation format #24460
Fix Asciidoctor Warnings #24427
Reconsider recommended connection pools #24405
Improve default experience of data binding from HTML date and time input fields #24370
Document supported characters for identifiers in SpEL expressions #24359
Document that @Validated results in the use of a proxy and warn users about the side-effects #24338
Deprecate use of path extensions in request mapping and content negotiation #24179

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to RSocket 1.0.0-RC6 #24482
Upgrade to ASM 7.3 #24438
Upgrade to Reactor Dysprosium SR5 #24355
Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 5.6 #24299

❤️ Contributors

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