spring-projects/spring-framework v6.0.0-M5 on GitHub

⭐ New Features

HibernateTransactionManager compatibility with Hibernate 6.0/6.1 #28813
Reject JDK proxy hint registration for sealed interfaces #28786
Provide SerializationHintsPredicates in RuntimeHintsPredicates #28772
Deprecate convention-based annotation attribute overrides in favor of @AliasFor #28760
Add native image support for WebSocket STOMP messaging #28754
Simplify hint registration for Spring AOP proxies #28745
Only use JPMS exports as we don't need reflection access #28733
Open GraalVM internals to the ConstantFieldFeature #28732
Add support for records in BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar #28721
Replace java.util.Date and TimeUnit usage in scheduling with appropiate java.time classes #28714
Jackson well-known module support in native image #28709
RuntimeHints missing for WebFlux #28701
Add runtime hints for AbstractHandshakeHandler #28697
native-image: Problem with Scheduled annotation #28696
native-image: Support for MethodValidationPostProcessor #28689
native-image: Field 'PROPAGATION_REQUIRED' not found in class TransactionDefinition #28688
Allow dynamic properties in ProblemDetail #28665
Add Kotlinx Serialization support to BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar #28635
Add ResourceHints registrar for classpath patterns #28626
Replace build-time initialization by constant field evaluation at build-time #28624
Add reflection hints for data binding in Web controllers #28623
Add reflection hints for HttpEntity used in Web controllers #28622
Introduce ResourcePatternHint#toRegex #28620
Add ifPresent utility methods on RuntimeHints #28617
Register native hints for jakarta.inject annotations #28614
Use PathPatternParser by default in Spring MVC #28607
Support that the same RuntimeHintsRegistrar can be specified multiple times and invoked only once #28594
Rationalize naming strategy in ApplicationContextAotGenerator #28585
Add minimal Kotlin DSL RouterFunction attributes support #28569
Introduce attribute support in Kotlin RouterFunction DSL #28567
Allow ApplicationContextAotGenerator to generated better class names #28565
Allow BeanRegistrationAotContributions to provide BeanRegistrationCodeFragments customization #28557
Introduce RuntimeHints predicates utilities #28555
Deprecate trailing slash match and change default value from true to false #28552
Improve options for exception handling in HTTP interface client #28533
Add reflection hints for Web controllers #28518
Ambiguous behavior for ClassNameGenerator::generateClassName #28517
Support module path scanning for "classpath*:" resource prefix #28506
Refactor HttpServiceProxyFactory to be suitable as an infrastructure bean #28505
Allow custom HTTP method with @HttpExchange methods #28504
Create UrlResource factory methods that throw unchecked exceptions #28501
Introduce utility to register hints for an annotation that uses AliasFor #28497
Support property placeholders in url attribute of @HttpExchange #28492
Support default methods in @HttpExchange interface #28491
Introduce AotDetector mode #28474
Introduce a meta-annotation that indicates the annotated element requires reflection hints #28469
Add level guards for trace logging in SpringFactoriesLoaderRuntimeHintsRegistrar #28465
Add resolver for request attributes for @HttpExchange methods #28458
Add WebFlux equivalent of ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #28439
Avoid collectList when sending a Flux of objects as JSON using WebClient #28398
Avoid loading XML files for default SQL exception translation #28216
Refine runtime hint conditions #28126
Provide testing infrastructure for RuntimeHints #27981
Simplify default locale/timezone resolution in cookie/session locale resolvers #27609
Nested Exception's message should not include the messages from causal chain #25162
Add If-Match support and improve If-None-Match wildcard support #24881

🐞 Bug Fixes

Guard against NPE in PathMatchConfigurer #28816
AnnotationTypeMapping tracks @AliasFor mappings as convention-based #28773
Support by-type constructor references in ConstructorOrFactoryMethodResolver #28728
AOT generated code leads to exception on startup: Object of class [java.lang.Boolean] must be an instance of boolean #28727
HtmlUnit / MockMvc integration handles forwarded URLs partially #28722
StackOverflowError when using BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar #28683
Wrong reflection hints for arrays of inner types #28664
Add automatic hint for autowired field support #28655
Reflection configuration for parameter types with an inner class have wrong name #28606
Fix ResourceHintsWriter for leading/trailing wildcards #28597
JdkHttpClientResourceFactory has dependency on org.eclipse.jetty #28588
CompileWithTargetClassAccessClassLoader does not implement findResource #28574
ScopedProxyBeanRegistrationAotProcessor is never called #28561
Proxy hint missing when AliasFor is used on the annotation itself #28528
Fix attribute return types in @DeleteExchange, @PatchExchange, and @PutExchange #28498
Correctly detect Optional return type for @HttpExchange methods #28493
Resolve package cycle around MissingServletRequestPartException #28455
findAnnotationOnBean finds annotations from a static @Bean method's enclosing class #28298

📔 Documentation

Fix WebClientAdapter.createHttpServiceProxyFactory() example in ref docs #28753
Remove obsolete references to @Required #28600
Improve ResourcePatternHint documentation #28598
Use getHost instead of getContainerIpAddress in Redis examples #28461
Update documentation for RFC 7807 support #28438

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade client support to R2DBC 1.0 #28787
Upgrade Dokka to 1.7 #28641
Upgrade to Kotlin 1.7.0 #28619
Upgrade to Kotlin 1.7.10 #28784
Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.0-M4 #28766

❤️ Contributors

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