spring-projects/spring-framework v6.0.0-M6 on GitHub

⭐ New Features

Add HandshakeWebSocketService runtime hints #29146
Add className variants in ReflectionHintsPredicates for checking fields and methods #29143
Set hibernate.bytecode.provider to none on native image #29140
Add proxy hints for org.hibernate.SessionFactory & org.hibernate.Session #29138
DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.determineDefaultPersistenceUnitRootUrl is unable to resolve root url in native image #29137
Adapt FieldHint to recent GraalVM versions #29130
Deprecate StreamUtils.emptyInput() #29125
Improve exception message when the code for a value could not be generated #29118
Deprecate support for theme #29114
Add resource hints for HtmlCharacterEntityReferences.properties #29112
Introduce AotTestAttributes mechanism in the TestContext framework #29100
Return absolute path without leading slash from ClassPathResource#getPath #29099
Register runtime hints for types exposed via PersistenceManagedTypes #29096
Remove deprecated SynthesizedAnnotation interface #29092
Add support for providing JNI runtime hints #29085
Introduce registerResource(Resource) in ResourceHints #29083
Introduce AotTestExecutionListener API in the TestContext framework #29070
Introduce TestRuntimeHintsRegistrar in the TestContext framework #29069
Use serializerOrNull in Kotlin Serialization support #29068
Align RuntimeHintsPredicates with new FieldMode #29063
Remove support for setting default CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate via system property #29061
Avoid shipping AWT classes in native images #29060
Stop using RuntimeHintsUtils to register SynthesizedAnnotation proxies #29059
Remove obsolete RuntimeHintsUtils #29058
Deprecate SynthesizedAnnotation and related methods #29053
Stop implementing SynthesizedAnnotation in annotation proxies #29041
Introduce logging for ContextCustomizer[Factory] to improve diagnostics #29036
Avoid reflection for instantiating MockServerContainerContextCustomizer #29035
Skip ContextCustomizerFactory that cannot be loaded #29034
Register runtime hints for TestContext framework classes #29028
Register runtime hints for @Sql scripts #29027
Register runtime hints for @WebAppConfiguration attributes #29026
Register runtime hints for @TestPropertySource attributes #29025
Register runtime hints for @TestExecutionListeners attributes #29024
Register runtime hints for @BootstrapWith attributes #29023
Register runtime hints for ActiveProfilesResolver #29022
Register runtime hints for @ContextConfiguration attributes #29021
Remove remaining native build-time class initializations #29018
Introduce TypeHint.Builder#onReachableType(Class<?>) #29017
Harmonize registration of reflection hints #29011
Revisit resource cleanup in RestTemplate and ClientHttpRequestFactory #29010
Allow MethodReference to support a more flexible signature #29005
Refine JacksonModulesRuntimeHints #29001
Add hint for use of @Qualifier as a meta-annotation #29000
Lazy Validator resolution in MethodValidationPostProcessor #28990
Infer JDK dynamic proxies for Spring beans #28980
Contribute @PropertySource declarations in AOT optimized contexts #28976
Expose registrar for @Reflective #28975
Revisit our annotation support now that annotations are available in a native image without a dedicated hint #28967
Increase StreamUtils.BUFFER_SIZE to 8192 #28965
Update StreamUtils drain and emptyInput to use JDK builtins #28961
Integrate class proxy generation in AOT processing #28954
RuntimeHintsUtils.registerAnnotation should not register SynthesizedAnnotation proxy for @AliasFor #28953
Allow null argument for ResponseEntity.DefaultBuilder.eTag(String etag) #28947
Remove the need for reflection for OptionalValidatorFactoryBean #28939
Rename generateApplicationContext() in ApplicationContextAotGenerator #28927
Remove deprecated GenericPropertiesContextLoader from the TestContext framework #28911
Introduce AotContextLoader SPI in the TestContext framework #28906
Deprecate methods in ContextLoader API in the TestContext framework #28905
Make BootstrapUtils.resolveTestContextBootstrapper() public #28891
Introduce RuntimeHintsUtils#registerComposableAnnotation #28887
Instrument MVC and WebFlux for Observability #28880
Introduce TestGenerationContext #28877
Support Netty 5's Buffer API #28874
Support for Netty 5 #28847
Harmonize visibility of RuntimeHints builders #28835
Introduce command-line application for triggering AOT test context processing #28825
Introduce TestClassScanner to locate Spring test classes for AOT processing #28824
Allow empty path in MockMvc #28823
AOT-generated code for a FactoryBean should have a better location #28812
Add support for SchedulerFactoryBean in native-image #28725
EnableAsync doesn't work in native-image #28710
Improve test coverage of RdbmsOperation #28472
Treat MariaDB as an independent database type #28355
Instrument HTTP clients for Observability #28341
Deprecate ignoreDefaultModelOnRedirect property and set to true by default #28324
Allow to provide a pre-computed scan PersistenceUnitManager #28287
Make use of new HtmlUnit API for access request parameters #28240
Add support in the TCF to use pre-processed AOT contexts #28205
Add support for processing test contexts ahead-of-time #28204
Introduce AOT generated class proxies #28115
Deprecate SpringFactoriesLoader#loadFactoryNames #27954
Deprecate ListenableFuture in favor of CompletableFuture #27780
Revisit ConcurrentLruCache implementation #26320
Support to Create Proxy for RSocket Client From Annotated Interface #24456

🐞 Bug Fixes

BufferClosedException when decoding to Flux in StringDecoder #29119
RuntimeHintsAgent should not require full reflection on types #29091
Hint for resource pattern with leading slash is not applied in native image #29088
ResourceHintsPredicates.forResource(TypeReference,String) doesn't support default package #29086
Reflection field hints can downgrade allowWrite #29055
Misleading error message when no constructor or factory method can be found #29052
IllegalAccessException while instrumenting invocation of non-public method with RuntimeHintsAgent #29046
Error handling no longer works for JSON controller method returning Flux under 6.0.0-M5 #29038
@Order is not available in native image #28988
AbstractTestContextBootstrapper should not log stack trace when skipping a TestExecutionListener #28962
MergedBeanDefinitions change can be lost if bean is instantiated #28948
refreshForAotProcessing should freeze the configuration before invoking MBDPP #28941
Different order of invocations for ImportAware and EmbeddedValueResolverAware with AOT-optimized contexts #28915
Native reflection configuration should consider beanClass attribute of bean definitions #28913
RecordedInvocation instance resolution is inconsistent #28907
CompileWithTargetClassAccessExtension fails to select overloaded test methods #28901
Ensure CompileWithTargetClassAccessExtension only uses the Jupiter TestEngine #28900
JPA exception mapping fails with Hibernate 6.1.1 in spring 6.0.0-M5 #28855
Fix inferred methods code generation #28843
AOT-generated code does not consider by-type RuntimeBeanReferences #28841
ContentDisposition does not handle quoted pairs when parsing #28837
Absence of dependencies for optional TestExecutionListener breaks integration tests #28828
AOT generated code should consider visibility of FactoryBean target type #28809
InstantiationAwareBeanPostProcessor implementations are not invoked with an AOT-processed context #28777
RuntimeHintsUtils#registerAnnotation fails to register SynthesizedAnnotation proxy #28767
Factory method is lost for AOT-processed beans that do not require autowiring #28748
Bean definition contribution includes attributes that are not used at runtime #28516
Code generation should not contribute (inferred) destroy method name #28215

📔 Documentation

Add examples to Javadoc for Throwing*.of factory methods #28969
Fix typo in BasicJsonWriter.java #28890

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to JUnit 5.9.0 #28752
Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-M6 #29151
Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.0-M6 #29128

❤️ Contributors

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