spring-projects/spring-framework v5.3.8 on GitHub

⭐ New Features

HttpComponentsClientHttpConnector should close underlying resources #27032
Default value of StandaloneMockMvcBuilder.useSuffixPatternMatch differs from the same property in RequestMappingHandlerMapping #27030
Lookup method autowiring ignores method's generic info #26998
Set BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE on requests with WebMvc.fn #26963
Remove jackson-module-kotlin warning #26962
Switch back to parallel thread after WebSession id is generated #26958
Introduce ResponseEntity.internalServerError() #26952
Polish PORT_PATTERN in UriComponentsBuilder #26951
Deprecate/Remove internal APIs in ScriptUtils implementations #26947
Consider returning static DefaultApplicationStartup step #26939
Exception in Tomcat when SockJS top URL is a WebSocket upgrade #26933
Improve support for port numbers in allowedOriginPattern of CorsConfiguration #26927
Add ApplicationEvent constructor for specifying timestamp #26871
Add awaitExchangeOrNull extension function to reactive webclient #26778

Revisit fix for gh-26905 in UriComponentsBuilder #27039
MultipartHttpMessageWriter in WebClient doesn't use custom Jackson Encoder since 5.3.3 #27017
PartFile name lost when building a MultiPart #27007
No replacement of deprecated CronSequenceGenerator.isValidExpression #26996
NPE if StompEndpointRegistry has allowedOrigins with null #26987
CronExpression is broken on spring-context-5.3.6 #26964
FlightRecorderApplicationStartup is not thread safe #26941
Ignore delimiter enclosed in double quotes in ScriptUtils #26935
Ignore comments when searching for SQL statement delimiter in ScriptUtils #26911

spring-framework-main-code attribute has not been expanded in docs #27041
Document that class-level @ResponseStatus is inherited by @ExceptionHandler methods #27031
Improve @Transactional docs regarding method visibility #27003
Fix @Transactional examples regarding method visibility #27001
Fix typo in code example #26980
Document transactional semantics for @TransactionalEventListener after completion methods #26974
Fix typo #26973
Fix broken Javadoc tags #26967

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