v6.2.4

⭐ New Features

• JettyCoreHttpHandlerAdapter compatibility with Jetty 12.0.17 #34561
• HandlerMethodValidationException.Visitor should support RequestBody with method parameter constraints #34549
• Allow ContentResultMatchersDsl matchers for supertypes of the checked type #34542
• Avoid JarURLConnection resource leak in AbstractFileResolvingResource.exists() #34528
• Deprecate rowsExpected property of SqlQuery for removal #34526
• Supply RuntimeHints to an AotContextLoader #34513
• Deprecate and remove use of UrlPathHelper in ServletWebSocketHandlerRegistry #34508
• Avoid unnecessary CGLIB processing on configuration classes #34486
• Inconsistent default class loaders in hint classes #34470
• Add missing converters to DefaultRestClientBuilder #34439
• Improve BeanFactory/ObjectProvider to select the only one default candidate among non-default candidates #34432

🐞 Bug Fixes

• MockCookie.parse() fails to parse custom attribute with a value #34575
• BeanNotOfRequiredTypeException if @Bean factory method returns null #34543
• Regression in 6.2.3: No unique bean available for injection point with unresolvable generics #34541
• GenericConversionService cannot find a converter when converting to a Kotlin list of maps #34535
• isClientDisconnectedException needs to protect against null input #34533
• spring boot 3.4.3 + TimedAspect causes thread to hang #34522
• Missing Partitioned cookie support in reactive HTTP clients #34521
• DefaultManagedTaskExecutor throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: isShutdown when rejecting tasks #34514
• FileSystemResource location does not end with slash for RouterFunction check #34509
• AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter not resolving generic type for request body since 6.2.3 #34504
• Request param handling in HttpRequestValues overrides existing URI variables with same name #34499
• MockHttpServletResponse - handle multiple values for Content-Language header #34488
• Endless loop with DataSourceUtils in spring-jdbc #34484
• MockHttpServletResponse#setHeader does not remove header for null values #34464
• ContentCachingResponseWrapper.setHeader does not handle null value properly. #34460
• Component scan fails to find bean candidates in the embedded jar file in META-INF/context.xml for embedded Tomcat application #34446
• 6.2.0 broke with "Could not register object [@someHash] under bean name 'blabla': there is already object [@sameHash] bound" #34427
• 503 status code after completing SseEmitter in onTimeout #34426
• NullPointerException thrown when ConfigurationClassEnhancer creates CGLIB proxy #34423
• Add onRequest() hook for propagating request from downstream #34388
• Content-Type response header duplicated for failed StreamingResponseBody return value #34366
• Task scheduler configured by XML is not eligible for getting processed by all BeanPostProcessors #34015

📔 Documentation

• Fix typo in Spring MVC error responses documentation #34552
• Document that Spring Framework 6.x does not yet support JSpecify annotations #34551
• Fix web and webflux reference links #34517
• Document default KeyGenerator in spring-cache XSD #34468
• Fix broken antora task #34454
• Add @since tag for formField() and formFields in MockHttpServletRequestDsl #34448
• Improve Javadoc of ObjectProvider to clarify what is unique #34447
• rest-http-interface example code can't run #34443
• Add Javadoc since for HandlerMethod(HandlerMethod, Object, boolean) #34431
• Document wrapping behavior of TestExecutionListener callbacks #34422
• Cross reference annotation search APIs in Javadoc #34421

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.5 #34580
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.4 #34578

❤️ Contributors

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

@chenggangpro, @dark2momo, @dmitrysulman, @izeye, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @pankratz76, @quaff, @ryanprayogo, and @vpavic