spring-projects/spring-framework v7.0.0-M1

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⭐ New Features

• Remove binary array name handling in ClassUtils.forName() #34291
• Refine KotlinDetector usages and implementation #34275
• Introduce a dedicated nullness API #34261
• Consistent formatting of IPv6 host in forwarded header handling #34253
• Update runtime hints predicates after GraalVM changes #34239
• Allow multiple executions of ClientHttpRequestInterceptors #34169
• Refine null-safety in the spring-webmvc module #34164
• Refine null-safety in the spring-webflux module #34163
• Refine null-safety in the spring-web module #34162
• Refine null-safety in the spring-test module #34161
• Refine null-safety in the spring-r2dbc module #34160
• Refine null-safety in the spring-orm module #34159
• Refine null-safety in the spring-messaging module #34158
• Refine null-safety in the spring-jms module #34157
• Refine null-safety in the spring-expression module #34156
• Refine null-safety in the spring-aop module #34154
• Refine null-safety in the spring-beans module #34152
• Refine null-safety in the spring-context module #34151
• Refine null-safety in the spring-core module #34150
• Refine null-safety in the spring-jdbc module #34147
• Specify generic type nullness #34140
• Deprecate PathExtensionPredicate in functional web frameworks #34103
• Deprecate mvc XML configuration namespace #34063
• Remove path mapping options marked as deprecated for removal #34036
• Deprecate HandlerMappingIntrospector #34019
• Deprecate use of PathMatcher in web modules #34018
• Upgrade to Tomcat 11.0 #33916
• Revisit HttpHeaders implementing the MultiValueMap API #33913
• Adopt new GraalVM reachability metadata format #33847
• Built-in support for buffering in RestClient and RestTemplate #33785
• Replace spring-jcl with regular Apache Commons Logging 1.3 #32459
• Prepare AOT resource hints for GraalVM changes #31340
• Deprecate use of several bean factory methods for the same bean in a configuration class #31073
• Migrate to JSpecify annotations for nullability constraints #28797

📔 Documentation

• Fix depth for NullAway subsections in reference docs #34267
• Provide guidelines for NullAway #34202
• MediaType.ALL docstring display issue #34047
• Remove documentation for Kotlin Script Templates #34029

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• General upgrade to Jakarta EE 11 APIs #34011
• Raise JSONassert baseline to 2.0 #33799
• Upgrade Servlet mock classes to Servlet 6.1 #33749
• Upgrade ServletHttpHandlerAdapter to rely on Servlet 6.1 ByteBuffer support #33748
• Upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.0 (on JPA 3.2) #33750
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.1.0.alpha1 for EE11 compatibility #34237
• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.x and set a new related baseline #33629

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@izeye and @remeio