⭐ New Features
- Expose a public method "isClosed" to indicate whether the connection has been closed in WebSocketSession (WebFlux) #26043
- WebFlux missing programmatic handling of MappingJacksonValue #26035
- Optimize locking in AspectJProxyFactory for concurrent aspect instantiation #26034
- Upgrade SpelCompiler bytecode level to 1.8 and optimize for concurrent access #26033
- MergedAnnotationCollectors.toAnnotationSet() should not create intermediate ArrayList #26031
- SpEL doesn't work nicely with records #26029
- StompSubProtocolHandler logs failed authentication with error stack trace #26026
- Expose toEntityFlux methods in WebClient.ResponseSpec #26023
- Improve AdvisedSupport.getAdvisors() #26017
- Improve URI/query strings sanitization #26012
- DefaultSimpUserRegistry prevents event from being published if original SimpMessageHeaderAccessor cannot be found #26010
- DefaultWebClientBuilder copies references #25992
- Inefficient request handling inside ServletRequestDataBinder #25986
- Avoid multiple volatile reads/writes in a row where only one is enough #25899
- Allows Jackson2 encoders to log Throwable reason for not being able to serialize or deserialize #25892
- Mechanism to access request bound objects in WebClient filter in servlet env #25710
🪲 Bug Fixes
- Cannot be cast to class Publisher error with non suspending
@Transactionalfunctions #26052 - Fix wrong reference in UrlPathHelper.removeSemicolonContentInternal() #26050
- setTaskScheduler in StompBrokerRelayRegistration breaks chaining #26049
- Add FullyQualifiedAnnotationBeanNameGenerator.INSTANCE #26025
- Autowiring does not work reliably in case of dynamically changing prototype bean class #26019
- Order of profiles in tests is not preserved #26004
@Transactionalon suspending function returning a value always rollbacks #25998- SseEmitter: connection closed after first event #25987
@Nonnullannotation breaks ServletRequestMethodArgumentResolver for Principal #25981- Spring MVC's locale resolver can no longer be customized in parent context #25290
📔 Documentation
- Fix kotlin example code which does not compile #26016
- Fix a broken Asciidoctor syntax in core-resources.adoc #25999
❤️ Contributors
We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!