spring-projects/spring-framework v5.2.7.RELEASE on GitHub

⭐ New Features

Implement reliable invocation order for advice within an @Aspect #25186
Performance enhancement in execution of ResponseEntity.of() #25183
Support for shared GroovyClassLoader in GroovyScriptFactory #25177
Suggest making a Set.size() > 0 judgement for AbstractApplicationContext.earlyApplicationEvents #25161
Make use of custom types configurable in YamlProcessor #25152
Avoid need for default constructor in ContextAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver subclasses #25131
ConstructorResolver.resolveConstructorArguments() return value issue #25130
Introduce serializeToByteArray/deserializeFromByteArray convenience methods #25117
Custom HTTP Method on MockServerHttpRequest #25109
Missing null checks in AbstractMessageChannel.addInterceptor/setInterceptors #25088
Avoid full synchronization in AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.getBeanFactory() since it can lead to massive thread blocking #25081
Simplify use of HttpContext in HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory in support of user associated connections #25066
ResolvableType forClass fails when a type in the generic signature isn't present #25064
Include timeout unit in shutdown failure logging #25058
Drop unnecessary intermediate StringBuilder.toString() call in ServerSentEventHttpMessageReader #25024
Fix concurrency issues in XStreamMarshaller #25017
Introduce mechanism to discover whether a reactive type registered in ReactiveAdapterRegistry uses deferred computation #24995
Avoid logging exception for closed session in AbstractSockJsSession #24986
Include response body in RestTemplate exception when there is no suitable HttpMessageConverter #24964

🪲 Bug Fixes

ExchangeStrategies custom codec's reader & writer are not registered #25149
MultiValueMapAdapter.getFirst fails with IndexOutOfBoundsException in case of empty List #25140
WebSphereUowTransactionManager causes exception for PROPAGATION_SUPPORTS when timeout is specified #25132
Avoid ClassCastException on IllegalArgumentException when invoking sync get cache method #25110
DefaultServerRequestBuilder does not respect attributes when building the ServerRequest #25106
Fix race condition in WriteResultPublisher between subscription and error in publishError #25096
Jackson message converters and codecs do not respect character encoding in canRead/canWrite #25076
DefaultClientResponseBuilder empty logPrefix when creating a DefaultClientResponse based on another #25069
HttpHeaders equals may return false without comparing actual content #25034
Fix race condition in WriteResultPublisher between subscription and completion in publishComplete #24989

📔 Documentation

Javadoc for hibernate5 OpenSessionInViewFilter mentions FlushMode.NEVER #25158
Document that the Map backing a MapPropertySource should not contain null values #25142
Javadoc for JdbcOperations.batchUpdate should mention that negative values are possible #25138
Fix URI pattern example in webflux.adoc #25137
Document how reactive transactions work for cancellation in 5.2 and how it will work in 5.3 #25091
Document whether code can rely on specific subclasses of HttpClientErrorException/HttpServerErrorException being thrown from DefaultResponseErrorHandler #25067
Fix SpelEvaluationException with example code #25045
javadoc: remove a comment documented a limitation on @Lookup annotation #25044
Document all predefined variables from ApplicationContext available in SpEL expressions #25037
Document ReactiveTransactionManager support in reference manual #25036
Document ReactiveTransactionManager support #25030
Change to placeholder value in XML is not reevaluated at runtime #25022
Add missing @PathVariable declarations in examples in webmvc.adoc #25006

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Reactor Dysprosium-SR8 #25210

❤️ Contributors

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