4.0.4 Release

⭐ New Features

• AbstractMarshaller should avoid SAXSource workaround when processExternalEntities=true [SPR-11737] #16359
• AbstractAdvisingBeanPostProcessor.isEligible(…) does not consider proxy interfaces [SPR-11725] #16347
• Metadata reading should never use ASM for java.* and javax.* types (in particular on JDK 8) [SPR-11719] #16341
• Fix/optimize handling of @Bean method override regression with return type narrowing on JDK 8 [SPR-11718] #16340
• Skip multipart checking so that multipart errors can be handled in an @Controller method using Servlet 3 [SPR-11716] #16338
• Improve Servlet 3 presence check in ServletServerHttpResponse [SPR-11712] #16334
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter should write body early when HttpServletResponse.sendError() is called [SPR-11705] #16327
• XStreamMarshaller: Can't parse XML with '_' in the attribute names [SPR-11702] #16324
• Support EOF as statement separator in SQL scripts [SPR-11687] #16310
• no msg when cannot authorize against external queue [SPR-11673] #16296
• Improve handling of disconnect events in STOMP broker relay [SPR-11655] #16278
• MarshallingView should avoid temporary byte array when copying to response [SPR-11646] #16269
• Optimize performance of escaping in StompEncoder and StompDecoder [SPR-11643] #16266
• XStreamMarshaller forces XPP dependency [SPR-11635] #16258
• Support simultaneous use of classes and locations in @ContextConfiguration [SPR-11634] #16257
• Update NativeWebSocketSession getters to return basic information required after close [SPR-11621] #16244
• Overriding bean definition message does not take parent definition into account [SPR-9671] #14305

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Generics and caching causing issues [SPR-13358] #17942
• JRubyScriptUtils fails against JRuby 1.7.12 with NullPointerException in findClassNode [SPR-11747] #16369
• If-Modified-Since header is parsed as HTTP-date; but IE 10 sends length [SPR-11727] #16349
• SpringProperties: the ClassLoader might be null, if class is loaded by the bootstrap class loader [SPR-11721] #16343
• ConcurrentReferenceHashMap doesn't limit upper concurrency level [SPR-11720] #16342
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter setContentLength on include [SPR-11717] #16339
• AnnotationReadingVisitorUtils.getMergedAnnotationAttributes() mutates the map argument [SPR-11710] #16332
• ClassCastException when evaluating the eq/ne operator in the EL [SPR-11708] #16330
• @CachePut evaluates incorrectly expressions for the different implementation of the same interface [SPR-11692] #16314
• Form select tag "multiple" attribute not recognized [SPR-11678] #16301
• UrlResource.exists() does not properly detect JBoss vfszip resources [SPR-11676] #16299
• DefaultSubscriptionRegistry does not handle subscriptions in Ant-style [SPR-11657] #16280
• NPE in AbstractMessageSendingTemplate when headers are null and converter returns null [SPR-11653] #16276
• AnnotationReadingVisitorUtils.getMergedAnnotationAttributes() overrides values it should not [SPR-11649] #16272
• SUBSCRIBE response message should match the original message destination [SPR-11648] #16271
• Regression: @ComponentScan fails for AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext [SPR-11647] #16270
• ResourceHttpRequestHandler not closing Resource's input stream [SPR-11644] #16267
• @PropertySource locations are being dropped in ConfigurationClassParser processPropertySource [SPR-11637] #16260
• Servlet mocks are not reinjected into test instance between TestNG test methods [SPR-11626] #16249
• Adding a ChannelInterceptor suppresses default executor settings in the XML namespace [SPR-11623] #16246
• Unsafe fallback pointcut construction in AspectJExpressionPointcut [SPR-9335] #13973

📔 Documentation

• Update documentation with example of single ApplicationContext per webapp [SPR-11703] #16325
• [doc] Document message broker related events published [SPR-11672] #16295
• Use unconstrained quotes instead of backticks in the reference manual [SPR-11650] #16273

4.0.3 Release

⭐ New Features

• ResizableByteArrayOutputStream and ByteArrayOutputStream capacities [SPR-11594] #16218
• Target Cache gets checked twice for every cache hit [SPR-11592] #16216
• MessageMethodArgumentResolver does not handle payload type and sub classes [SPR-11584] #16208
• Remove default use of SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor in WebSocketClient implementations [SPR-11580] #16204
• Add ApplicationEvents for WebSocket connection and disconnection [SPR-11578] #16202
• Support configuring WebSocket message buffer size [SPR-11575] #16199
• H2EmbeddedDatabaseConfigurer should set DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=false [SPR-11573] #16197
• @ControllerAdvice not detected from parent contexts (even though @Controller is) [SPR-11570] #16194
• Pass WebSocket session attributes in HandshakeInterceptor and expose them to MessageMapping methods [SPR-11566] #16190
• Introduce SQL script exception hierarchy [SPR-11564] #16188
• Refine BrokerAvailabilityEvent behavior in spring-messaging [SPR-11563] #16187
• Improve StAX<->SAX bridge [SPR-11549] #16174
• MVC handler method detection should ignore scopedTarget.x in favor of corresponding proxy bean [SPR-11548] #16173
• Optimize locking mechanism around storing flash attributes [SPR-11538] #16163
• relay-port type in xsd should be string [SPR-11537] #16162
• Improve exception message for failed property access in SpEL [SPR-11535] #16160
• Support receiving fragmented STOMP frames [SPR-11527] #16152
• @PropertySource ignoreResourceNotFound throws exception for unresolved placeholder values [SPR-11524] #16149
• Treat empty log config refresh interval as infinite interval in Log4jWebConfigurer [SPR-11507] #16132
• Skip eager bean creation of ApplicationListener's if they are not type-compatible with the given event [SPR-11501] #16126
• Clarify the use of exception in the conversion API [SPR-11500] #16125
• Improve MockHttpServletRequest's compatibility with Servlet 3.1 [SPR-11492] #16117
• Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter doesn't allow for customizing Marshaller/Unmarshaller [SPR-11488] #16113
• Expose path-related request mapping settings in the MVC Java config [SPR-11486] #16111
• String method for PatternsRequestCondition#getMatchingCondition [SPR-11484] #16109
• Avoid unnecessary inspection of meta-annotations on Java annotations [SPR-11483] #16108
• CollectionToCollectionConverter.convert() improvement for untyped collections [SPR-11479] #16104
• Favor more locally declared composed annotations over inherited annotations in AnnotationUtils [SPR-11475] #16100
• MetaAnnotationUtils should support arbitrary levels of meta-annotations [SPR-11470] #16095
• AbstractMessageConverter.supportsMimeType() should facilitate more restrictive matching strategies [SPR-11463] #16089
• CompositeMessageConverter should allow MessageConverters to use different ContentTypeResolvers [SPR-11462] #16088
• DefaultContentTypeResolver should support String-based "contentType" header values [SPR-11461] #16087
• EntityManager should explicitly get closed for non-executed Query objects [SPR-11451] #16077
• AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation() should support arbitrary levels of meta-annotations [SPR-11448] #16074
• MockMvc needs to accept prepared URI with encoded URI path variables [SPR-11441] #16067
• Logs fill with unnecessary stack traces when using SockJS streaming transports [SPR-11438] #16064
• NumberUtils.convertNumberToTargetClass does not report overflow when converting BigInteger to Long [SPR-11434] #16060
• Improve configurability of EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder [SPR-11410] #16037
• Multi-message frames over STOMP. [SPR-11328] #15952
• Upgrade embedded ASM version to 5.0.1 [SPR-11239] #15864
• MethodInvokingFactoryBean not well-suited for non-factory methods [SPR-11196] #15822
• java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy exception when annotation config not found needs to specify what class is not found [SPR-10441] #15074
• Support multi-line SQL comments in ResourceDatabasePopulator and JdbcTestUtils [SPR-9531] #14165
• ServletContextResourceLoader performance problem: creates a lot of MalformedURLExceptions ("no protocol") in normal operation [SPR-8283] #12931
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter should make use of specified content length [SPR-8271] #12919

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Referencing static field of class that extends Map in expression language causes class cast exception [SPR-11609] #16232
• ConversionService should remain capable of converting multidimensional array. [SPR-11608] #16231
• AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster can leak classes [SPR-11606] #16229
• Annotations on superclasses are detected by StandardAnnotationMetadata [SPR-11595] #16219
• Log Forging in DispatcherServlet via requestURI [SPR-11591] #16215
• BufferedImageHttpMessageConverter fails if JAI is installed [SPR-11581] #16205
• PayloadArgumentResolver does not honour Payload#required() [SPR-11577] #16201
• Support meta-annotation attribute overrides in ASM-based annotation processing [SPR-11574] #16198
• Custom HandshakeHandler not set when using particular xml configuration [SPR-11568] #16192
• Cache.get(key, type) doesn't work in case of null value found in cache [SPR-11567] #16191
• SQL Scripts with newline separators no longer work [SPR-11560] #16184
• Support Class meta-annotation attributes with ASM-based annotation processing [SPR-11557] #16181
• Connection to STOMP broker is retried in a tight loop if an AMQP port is specified [SPR-11554] #16178
• Providing unique names to prototype inner beans causes excessive memory and CPU use [SPR-11545] #16170
• Memory leak related to TCP connection management with use of STOMP broker relay [SPR-11531] #16156
• Autowiring unable to find generic dependency [SPR-11529] #16154
• Negative content-length causes NegativeArraySizeException when using SockJS on IE8 [SPR-11528] [#16153]...

4.0.2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Poor jackson parsing error message in MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter [SPR-11603] #16226
• Add support for setting PropertyNamingStrategy in Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean [SPR-11431] #16057
• Minor CompositeCacheManager revision [SPR-11427] #16053
• Allow access to HttpMethod in controller methods [SPR-11425] #16052
• Add status ResultMatcher to express status code ranges [SPR-11424] #16051
• MarshallingView should explicitly skip BindingResult when searching for a model object [SPR-11417] #16044
• Ignore container callback and marker interfaces for auto-proxy decisions [SPR-11416] #16043
• Consistently avoid close() call on Servlet OutputStream [SPR-11413] #16040
• Introduce verify() and reset() methods in AnnotationDrivenStaticEntityMockingControl [SPR-11395] #16022
• Performance degradation in evaluation of SpelExpression with access to Map [SPR-11388] #16015
• Custom headers are not sent in the stomp message [SPR-11387] #16014
• Multiple Converters from same source type to different Collection types not properly supported [SPR-11369] #15995
• Improve error reporting for issues related to @Controller types requiring AOP proxing [SPR-11281] #15905
• ShallowEtagHeaderFilter should not set ETags to non-cached resources [SPR-11110] #15736
• CustomizableThreadCreator could use AtomicInteger [SPR-11103] #15729
• HibernateInterceptor variant for Hibernate 4 [SPR-9028] #13667

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Memory leak in ConcurrentReferenceHashMap [SPR-11440] #16066
• No way to set virtual host in StompBrokerRelayMessageHandler [SPR-11433] #16059
• Objects with multi-threaded access should not lazily populate a hash field [SPR-11428] #16054
• Ensure server messages contain a destination matching that of the original subscription for user destinations [SPR-11423] #16050
• resolveFactoryMethodIfPossible should consider nonPublicAccessAllowed flag and SecurityManager scenario [SPR-11422] #16049
• Inclusion of 'overloaded' in equals() and hashCode() for MethodOverride breaks equals() in AbstractBeanDefinition [SPR-11420] #16047
• Update javadoc to conform to JDK8's styling [SPR-11412] #16039
• MarshallingView should not close response output stream [SPR-11411] #16038
• EhCacheCacheManager does not wrap runtime-registered caches with TransactionAwareCacheDecorator [SPR-11407] #16034
• Log caught exception in MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter [SPR-11403] #16030
• HibernateTemplate's generic signatures break backwards compatibility at source level [SPR-11402] #16029
• aop:scoped-proxy may fail with LinkageError: loader attempted duplicate class definition for name [SPR-11398] #16025
• MvcUriComponentsBuilder does not expand path variables in controller-level @RequestMapping [SPR-11391] #16018
• PreparedStatement#getParameterMetaData() calls may trigger unwanted side effects [SPR-11386] #16013
• Fix off-by-one regression in AbstractMethodMockingControl [SPR-11385] #16012
• Potential ClassCastException in RequestContextListener when destroying the request object [SPR-11378] #16005
• Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter is susceptible to XXE vulnerability [SPR-11376] #16003
• StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in AbstractErrors for class-level JSR-303 validator [SPR-11374] #16001
• NPE if no registered MessageConverter supporting "application/json" MIME type [SPR-11370] #15996
• LiveBeansView generates invalid JSON on specific case [SPR-11366] #15992
• URLs containing %2F (forward slash) are not mapped correctly to @RequestMapping methods [SPR-11101] #15727
• Velocity springFormCheckboxes macro does not check preselected items correctly [SPR-10837] #15463
• Method injection causes memory leak [SPR-10785] #15411

📔 Documentation

• Broken link into documentation section 21.5.3 [SPR-11404] #16031
• Apache HttpComponents 4.3 required at runtime but not listed in migration guide [SPR-11383] #16010

3.2.8 Release

⭐ New Features

• Improve error reporting for issues related to @Controller types requiring AOP proxing [SPR-11281] #15905
• Consistently avoid close() call on Servlet OutputStream [SPR-11413] #16040
• MarshallingView should explicitly skip BindingResult when searching for a model object [SPR-11417] #16044
• Minor CompositeCacheManager revision [SPR-11427] #16053

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Method injection causes memory leak [SPR-10785] #15411
• Velocity springFormCheckboxes macro does not check preselected items correctly [SPR-10837] #15463
• URLs containing %2F (forward slash) are not mapped correctly to @RequestMapping methods [SPR-11101] #15727
• LiveBeansView generates invalid JSON on specific case [SPR-11366] #15992
• StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in AbstractErrors for class-level JSR-303 validator [SPR-11374] #16001
• Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter is susceptible to XXE vulnerability [SPR-11376] #16003
• Potential ClassCastException in RequestContextListener when destroying the request object [SPR-11378] #16005
• Fix off-by-one regression in AbstractMethodMockingControl [SPR-11385] #16012
• PreparedStatement#getParameterMetaData() calls may trigger unwanted side effects [SPR-11386] #16013
• aop:scoped-proxy may fail with LinkageError: loader attempted duplicate class definition for name [SPR-11398] #16025
• EhCacheCacheManager does not wrap runtime-registered caches with TransactionAwareCacheDecorator [SPR-11407] #16034
• MarshallingView should not close response output stream [SPR-11411] #16038
• Inclusion of 'overloaded' in equals() and hashCode() for MethodOverride breaks equals() in AbstractBeanDefinition [SPR-11420] #16047
• resolveFactoryMethodIfPossible should consider nonPublicAccessAllowed flag and SecurityManager scenario [SPR-11422] #16049
• Objects with multi-threaded access should not lazily populate a hash field [SPR-11428] #16054
• Memory leak in ConcurrentReferenceHashMap [SPR-11440] #16066

📔 Documentation

• Broken link into documentation section 21.5.3 [SPR-11404] #16031

4.0.1 Release

⭐ New Features

• @RestController should accept a bean name value [SPR-11360] #15986
• Compatibility with JOpt 4.6 [SPR-11359] #15985
• HibernateJpaVendorAdapter should use new interface when on Hibernate 4.3 [SPR-11358] #15983
• Revisit need for Introspector.flushFromCaches call in CachedIntrospectionResults [SPR-11356] #15981
• @RequestPart(...) MultipartFile[] does not work (List<MultipartFile works) [SPR-11353] #15978
• Provide alternative RestTemplate constructor to avoid default MessageConverter creation [SPR-11351] #15976
• Add Missing Constructors Back to MessageHandlingException [SPR-11345] #15969
• Unnecessary class loading in AspectJ RuntimeTestWalker [SPR-11344] #15968
• Reduce footprint due to RootBeanDefinition [SPR-11343] #15967
• Inconsistent serializable RemoteInvocation(Result) classes [SPR-11337] #15961
• Bootstrapping the EntityManagerFactory should log the name of the persistence unit being used [SPR-11333] #15957
• Include TestContext in log message when starting a new transaction in TransactionalTestExecutionListener [SPR-11323] #15947
• Add control of what HTTP Request method AbstractFileResolvingResource methods exists, lastModified and lastModified uses on http url resources [SPR-11320] #15944
• Provide a mechanism for adding ApplicationContextInitializers to DispatcherServlet's ApplicationContext [SPR-11314] #15938
• Optimize lookup of field errors in AbstractBindingResult [SPR-11304] #15928
• Make conversion framework extensible [SPR-11303] #15927
• Encode user name in user-specific message destinations. [SPR-11302] #15926
• Add patch() to MockMvcRequestBuilders [SPR-11299] #15923
• Re-consider including HibernateTemplate and related classes for Hibernate 4 [SPR-11291] #15915
• Upgrade Tiles2 TilesConfigurer class to Tiles 2.2.2 [SPR-11285] #15909
• ThreadPoolTaskExecutor Should Implement AsyncListenableTaskExecutor [SPR-11282] #15906
• Allow ObjectMapper to be modified within MappingJackson2MessageConverter [SPR-11279] #15903
• GenericMessage unnecessarily copies message headers before passing to MessageHeaders [SPR-11268] #15893
• better method identification in AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource logging [SPR-11267] #15892
• MappingJackson2(Http)MessageConverter should be more verbose in canRead/canWrite checks (on Jackson 2.3) [SPR-11261] #15886
• Add potentially existing orm.xml file to default persistence unit when packages to scan is used [SPR-11260] #15885
• Add Converter implementations that convert legacy Date instances into JDK 8 date/time types [SPR-11259] #15884
• AntPathMatcher creates many temporary objects [SPR-11258] #15883
• Allow configuring RequestMappingHandlerMapping in mvc:annotation-driven [SPR-11253] #15878
• Private constant HttpHeaders.UPGARDE misspelled [SPR-11241] #15866
• HibernateJpaVendorAdapter causes Hibernate 4.3 to produce deprecation warnings [SPR-11240] #15865
• Spring4 MVC Unit test does not compile [SPR-11238] #15863
• Support for JSR-356 on WildFly 8 / Undertow [SPR-11237] #15862
• orm.xml should be recognized by default if using JPA [SPR-11234] #15859
• Allow setting principal on connect [SPR-11228] #15853
• Upgrade to CGLIB 3.1 and Objenesis 2.1 [SPR-11226] #15851
• Provide 'with implementationType' overloads on ResolvableType [SPR-11218] #15843
• Spring formatting with Formatting from String to String and spring:eval does not work [SPR-11215] #15840
• No stack trace on SockJS HTTP transport failure to write to the response [SPR-11201] #15827
• Allow configuring a PathMatcher for use in MappedInterceptor [SPR-11197] #15823
• Support for @Valid in @MessageMapping annotated methods [SPR-11185] #15811
• Allow easier customization of MessageConverters with @EnableWebSocketMessageBroker and XML namespace [SPR-11184] #15810
• Consider improvements to SockJS message cache [SPR-11183] #15809
• client-side stomp authentication headers are passed to the message broker [SPR-11154] #15781
• avoid dependency on reactor-tcp when using a stomp broker relay [SPR-11153] #15780
• Allow @Controller methods to produce a response with no body and custom headers by returning an HttpHeaders instance [SPR-11129] #15755
• Auto-registration of modules (in particular JSR-310 and Joda-Time support) in Jackson's ObjectMapper [SPR-11040] #15668
• Provide access to SimpleTriggerFactoryBean property startTime [SPR-10940] #15568
• tx:annotation-driven and cache:annotation-driven should have order defined as a token [SPR-10886] #15514
• Expose path-related request mapping settings in the MVC XML namespace [SPR-10163] #14796
• CronTriggerFactoryBean doesn't allow calendar name and description to be specified [SPR-9771] #14405
• Improve the performance of BeanInfo lookups in CachedIntrospectionResults [SPR-9014] #13653
• Be able to define tx:annotationdriven order attribute as a ref [SPR-7342] #12001
• JMSTemplate setDeliveryPersistent(boolean deliveryPersistent) javadoc incorrect [SPR-3983] #8663

🪲 Bug Fixes

• CachedIntrospectionResults caching jar entries and creating big pressure on GC [SPR-11818] #16438
• CompoundClassLoader.loadClass is trying to load some framework class and comsuming all web container threads. [SPR-11499] #16124
• Upgrading spring from 3.2 to 4 - Issue with generics (extends) [SPR-11382] #16009
• SchedulerAccessor 'globalJobListeners' and 'globalTriggerListeners' not working with 2.0.x and 2.1.x [SPR-11362] #15988
• BeanWrapper fails in case of read/write method mismatch (e.g. EhCacheFactoryBean.setMemoryStoreEvictionPolicy) [SPR-11361] #15987
• AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer does not allow consolidating all configuration into the "root" context [SPR-11357] #15982
• Regression from 3.2.x for FormattingConversionService.addFormatterForFieldType [SPR-11354] #15979
• SpEL Projection Regression [SPR-11348] [#15972](https://github.c...

3.2.7 Release

⭐ New Features

• JMSTemplate setDeliveryPersistent(boolean deliveryPersistent) javadoc incorrect [SPR-3983] #8663
• Improve the performance of BeanInfo lookups in CachedIntrospectionResults [SPR-9014] #13653
• CronTriggerFactoryBean doesn't allow calendar name and description to be specified [SPR-9771] #14405
• Provide access to SimpleTriggerFactoryBean property startTime [SPR-10940] #15568
• better method identification in AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource logging [SPR-11267] #15892
• Add patch() to MockMvcRequestBuilders [SPR-11299] #15923
• Optimize lookup of field errors in AbstractBindingResult [SPR-11304] #15928
• Provide a mechanism for adding ApplicationContextInitializers to DispatcherServlet's ApplicationContext [SPR-11314] #15938
• Add control of what HTTP Request method AbstractFileResolvingResource methods exists, lastModified and lastModified uses on http url resources [SPR-11320] #15944
• Bootstrapping the EntityManagerFactory should log the name of the persistence unit being used [SPR-11333] #15957
• Reduce footprint due to RootBeanDefinition [SPR-11343] #15967
• Unnecessary class loading in AspectJ RuntimeTestWalker [SPR-11344] #15968
• Provide alternative RestTemplate constructor to avoid default MessageConverter creation [SPR-11351] #15976
• Compatibility with JOpt 4.6 [SPR-11359] #15985

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix @Bean meta-annotation detection when using ASM [SPR-10488] #15121
• theme resolution fails with "IllegalArgumentException: Basename must not be empty" when an empty theme value is provided via request url [SPR-11128] #15754
• context:component-scan element says error in the mvc-cofig.xml [SPR-11221] #15846
• Backward compatibility of BeanUtils.copyProperties broken for copying wrapped types to primitive types (and vice versa) on 3.2.6 and 4.0.0 [SPR-11231] #15856
• Regression: InjectionMetadata cache needs to handle different bean classes per bean name [SPR-11246] #15871
• XMLEventStreamWriter fails to handle writeEmptyElement() followed by writeAttribute() [SPR-11254] #15879
• EhCacheFactoryBean should not call set(Sampled)StatisticsEnabled on EhCache 2.7/2.8 [SPR-11265] #15890
• @Async with cglib based proxy causes memory leak in heap [SPR-11275] #15899
• @Async with cglib based proxy causes memory leak in permgen [SPR-11276] #15900
• Full Quartz 2.2 compatibility, including LocalDataSourceJobStore [SPR-11284] #15908
• StandardEnvironment's system environment access produces warning with stacktrace on WebSphere [SPR-11297] #15921
• Bad type comparison in ReflectionHelper.getTypeDifferenceWeight(List paramTypes, List argTypes) [SPR-11306] #15930
• ServletWebRequest.checkNotModified() methods should treat HEAD identically to GET [SPR-11317] #15941
• Wrong assert in AspectJAwareAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.setAspectJAdvisorFactory() [SPR-11330] #15954
• ServletTestExecutionListener is not enabled by default in abstract base test classes [SPR-11340] #15964
• PlaceholderConfigurerSupport.doProcessProperties() loses stack trace on exception [SPR-11346] #15970
• Handle NoClassDefFoundError for TestExecutionListeners consistently in the TestContext framework [SPR-11347] #15971
• AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer does not allow consolidating all configuration into the "root" context [SPR-11357] #15982
• BeanWrapper fails in case of read/write method mismatch (e.g. EhCacheFactoryBean.setMemoryStoreEvictionPolicy) [SPR-11361] #15987
• SchedulerAccessor 'globalJobListeners' and 'globalTriggerListeners' not working with 2.0.x and 2.1.x [SPR-11362] #15988
• CompoundClassLoader.loadClass is trying to load some framework class and comsuming all web container threads. [SPR-11499] #16124
• StatementCreatorUtils introduces java 1.6 dependency [SPR-11349] #15974
• NoClassDefFoundError with Spring 3.2.7.BUILD-SNAPSHOT on WebSphere 6.1 [SPR-11341] #15965
• Downgrade accidental use of Java 1.6 APIs [SPR-11321] #15945
• spring-jdbc-3.2.6.RELEASE doesn't support JDK 5. [SPR-11313] #15937
• @Enable registrars invoked with subclass for annotation placed on superclass (3.2.x) [SPR-11251] #15876

4.0 GA Release

⭐ New Features

• Lock error is not translated to PessimisticLockingFailureException or subclass when using JPA (Hibernate) [SPR-11670] #16293
• A GuavaCache implementation of org.springframework.cache.Cache [SPR-11216] #15841
• Rename @PathVariable to @DestinationVariable in spring-messaging [SPR-11208] #15833
• EhCacheManagerFactoryBean should share per cacheManagerName and only call shutdown if it originally created its CacheManager [SPR-11178] #15804
• Minor issue with fix for CVE 2010-1622 [SPR-11098] #15724
• Map "Foreign key constraint violation occurred" Sybase error code to DataIntegrityViolationException [SPR-11097] #15723
• RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor should not kick in for factory-bean definitions [SPR-10458] #15091
• Allow for ignoreResourceNotFound on @PropertySource [SPR-10325] #14959
• Expression evaluator should accept raw collection value for parameterized method argument [SPR-7831] #12487
• Sort the scanned entity classes when creating an Hibernate SessionFactory [SPR-7742] #12398

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Recently changes of GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor breaks BeanUtils.copyProperties() [SPR-11209] #15834
• FactoryBean bean type detection can causes fatal early instantiation [SPR-11202] #15828
• XStreamMarshaller doesn't set the converterRegistry field with XStream 1.4.5 [SPR-11147] #15774
• ServletTestExecutionListener breaks old code [SPR-11144] #15771
• Images in docbook generated PDF are too large [SPR-11143] #15769
• Fix tests related to java.beans.BeanInfo changes in JDK8-b117 [SPR-11139] #15765
• Dependency Injection issue when using ManagedMap or ManagedList in BeanDefinitionParser [SPR-11131] #15757
• Cannot autowire qualified scoped-proxy @Bean definitions [SPR-11116] #15742
• Type resolution fails for uninitialized factory-method declaration [SPR-11112] #15738
• "CglibAopProxy: Unable to proxy method" WARN when bean class contains static final method [SPR-11107] #15733
• performancedrop due to repeated JDBC 3.0 getParameterType calls in setNull in StatementCreatorUtils [SPR-11100] #15726
• If the !profile selector is used the other profiles can be ignored in [SPR-11093] #15719
• ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider.findCandidateComponents fails on private meta-attributes [SPR-11091] #15717
• Use StoredProcedure to call sp, if not set the rowmapper for out parameter which type is cursor, will throw null pointer exception [SPR-11076] #15702
• MBeanExporter/MBeanRegistrationSupport lack synchronization [SPR-11002] #15630
• Remove integer conversion in JmsListenerContainerParser [SPR-10986] #15614
• @Qualifier Change of Behavior 4.0 Vs 3.x with Qualified Bean in Parent Context [SPR-10966] #15594
• Security vulnerabilities in Spring v2.5.6 and v3.2.4 [SPR-10912] #15540
• In spring MVC portlet, @resourceMapping doesn't work. [SPR-10791] #15417
• Cannot override singleton with scoped proxy [SPR-10744] #15370
• StackOverflowError when expression calls method which is a Collection of itself [SPR-9735] #14369
• Java config FactoryBean proxy causes class loader leak [SPR-9274] #13912

📔 Documentation

• Document MVC timezone support [SPR-11203] #15829
• Document scripting updates (JRuby 1.5, Groovy 1.8) [SPR-11200] #15826
• Document @Description [SPR-11194] #15820
• Document Servlet 3.0 in "Initial web configuration" [SPR-11190] #15816
• Remove EBR details from docs [SPR-11189] #15815
• Document @Conditional [SPR-11188] #15814
• Document SimpleKeyGenerator default in migration guide [SPR-11187] #15813
• Document AsyncRestTemplate [SPR-11182] #15808
• update/remove parts of "Integrating with other web frameworks" section [SPR-11181] #15807
• Check docs for references to Tiles v1 [SPR-11180] #15806
• update interceptors documentation [SPR-11175] #15801
• document new deprecations in the migration guide [SPR-11174] #15800
• mention updates in resttemplate documentation [SPR-11173] #15799
• Mention suffix pattern match in contentnegotiationmanager doc [SPR-11172] #15798
• Delete "migrating to spring 3.x" sections [SPR-11171] #15797
• document Environment and PropertySource abstractions [SPR-11170] #15796
• Document Bean definition profiles [SPR-11169] #15795
• Remove references to DTD from docs [SPR-11166] #15792
• Document the -bom [SPR-11163] #15789
• Remove all references to Amazon S3 repo [SPR-11162] #15788
• Mention Gradle in the docs [SPR-11161] #15787
• Remove EBR section from docs [SPR-11160] #15786
• Remove community download section from docs [SPR-11159] #15785
• Check references to struts [SPR-11157] #15783
• Update figure 1 to include messaging module [SPR-11155] #15782
• Add a section with all Java SE and Java EE support info [SPR-11151] #15778
• Document @ControllerAdvice [SPR-11149] #15776
• Update and/or migrate "what's new in spring 3" "migrating to..." sections [SPR-11148] #15775
• What's New in 4.0 section in reference documentation [SPR-11120] #15746
• Document meta-annotation support in the TestContext framework [SPR-11109] #15735
• Remove all references to ibatis [SPR-11156] #15469
• Update the release process regarding change log generation [SPR-9740] #14374

3.2.6 Release

⭐ New Features

• Expression evaluator should accept raw collection value for parameterized method argument [SPR-7831] #12487
• Map "Foreign key constraint violation occurred" Sybase error code to DataIntegrityViolationException [SPR-11097] #15723
• Minor issue with fix for CVE 2010-1622 [SPR-11098] #15724
• Add Maven 'bill-of-materials' project for 3.2.x [SPR-11204] #15512

🪲 Bug Fixes

• In spring MVC portlet, @resourceMapping doesn't work. [SPR-10791] #15417
• Security vulnerabilities in Spring v2.5.6 and v3.2.4 [SPR-10912] #15540
• Remove integer conversion in JmsListenerContainerParser [SPR-10986] #15614
• MBeanExporter/MBeanRegistrationSupport lack synchronization [SPR-11002] #15630
• Use StoredProcedure to call sp, if not set the rowmapper for out parameter which type is cursor, will throw null pointer exception [SPR-11076] #15702
• ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider.findCandidateComponents fails on private meta-attributes [SPR-11091] #15717
• If the !profile selector is used the other profiles can be ignored in [SPR-11093] #15719
• performancedrop due to repeated JDBC 3.0 getParameterType calls in setNull in StatementCreatorUtils [SPR-11100] #15726
• "CglibAopProxy: Unable to proxy method" WARN when bean class contains static final method [SPR-11107] #15733
• Type resolution fails for uninitialized factory-method declaration [SPR-11112] #15738
• Cannot autowire qualified scoped-proxy @Bean definitions [SPR-11116] #15742
• Dependency Injection issue when using ManagedMap or ManagedList in BeanDefinitionParser [SPR-11131] #15757
• Fix tests related to java.beans.BeanInfo changes in JDK8-b117 [SPR-11139] #15765
• ServletTestExecutionListener breaks old code [SPR-11144] #15771
• Recently changes of GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor breaks BeanUtils.copyProperties() [SPR-11209] #15834
• ReflectivePropertyAccessor should not consider "is" methods with non boolean returns [SPR-11142] #15768
• Support multiple comma-separated values in X-Forwarded-Host header [SPR-11140] #15766
• EhCacheFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet should be synchronized [SPR-11132] #15758
• Spring caching: combining multiple @Cacheable within @Caching annotation doesn't work [SPR-11124] #15750
• EhCacheFactoryBean fails when statistics are enabled [SPR-11080] #15706

4.0 RC2 Release

⭐ New Features

• Support placeholder in EnableMBeanExport [SPR-11105] #15731
• Upgrade Jetty to version 9.1.0 GA [SPR-11099] #15725
• Add support for default prefix in @SendTo and @SendToUser annotations [SPR-11085] #15711
• Allow InstrumentationSavingAgent for usage with Attach API [SPR-11083] #15709
• Improve process of subscribing to a user/session-specific STOMP destination [SPR-11077] #15703
• Add BeanFactory.getBeanNamesWithAnnotation(Class<?>, boolean, boolean) for parity with getBeansOfType(...) [SPR-11069] #15696
• Support JCA 1.7 [SPR-11067] #15694
• Replace SubscribableChannel with AbstractSubscribableChannel in WebSocketMessageBrokerConfigurationSupport [SPR-11065] #15692
• Provide XML Namespace for Configuring WebSocket and STOMP [SPR-11063] #15690
• Add org.springframework.cache.Cache.get(key, type) [SPR-11061] #15688
• Impossible to customise Hibernate RegionFactory [SPR-11056] #15683
• Support meta-annotation attribute overrides in the TestContext framework [SPR-11038] #15666
• ConfigurationClass.validate() should allow for overloading in general or not at all [SPR-11025] #15653
• Migrate from docbook to asciidoctor [SPR-10960] #15588
• @EnableTransactionManagement and co should also get detected on superclasses [SPR-10864] #15491
• Improve behavior in accidental error cases for AOP, JavaConfig and too broad pointcuts [SPR-10561] #15191
• Support BigDecimals with SpEL [SPR-9164] #13802
• Improve failure mode when depends-on cycles exist [SPR-7966] #12621

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix casing in spring mvc namespace attributes "enableMatrixVariables" and "ignoreDefaultModelOnRedirect" [SPR-11136] #15762
• IllegalStateException prevents STOMP/WebSocket app from starting on Wildfly [SPR-11111] #15737
• AnnotationUtils fails to retrieve attribute values from non-public annotations [SPR-11104] #15730
• Corrupted WebSocket messages by multi-threaded publishing to external clients [SPR-11102] #15728
• Connection to STOMP broker closed after a few successful messages are read [SPR-11088] #15714
• @PropertySources fails on JDK 7 due to @Repeatable [SPR-11086] #15712
• Websocket connection fails with /websocket Stomp Endpoint [SPR-11058] #15685
• FormTag generates hidden fields from RequestDataValueProcessor.getExtraHiddenFields(...) without container, resulting in invalid xhtml [SPR-10926] #15554
• MockMvc can't be test under multiple threads. [SPR-10838] #15464
• SpEL: OpEQ should use equals() [SPR-9194] #13832

📔 Documentation

• Polish asciidoctor [SPR-11096] #15722
• Error in docs, part 6.5.5 Configuring a ConversionService [SPR-10802] #15428

3.2.5 Release

⭐ New Features

• Disable the processing of external entities in SourceHttpMessageConverter by default [SPR-11078] #15704
• Avoid unnecessary char[] allocation in NamedParameterUtils [SPR-11042] #15670
• Spring doesn't parse jndi variables default values to match the expected-type [SPR-11039] #15667
• Methods in AnnotationConfigUtils.processCommonDefinitionAnnotations(…) should be public [SPR-11032] #15660
• PropertyOrFieldReference suffers from potential NullPointerException [SPR-11031] #15659
• ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner INFO logging on JSR 330 [SPR-10974] #15602
• Make createRequestMappingInfo in RequestMappingHandlerMapping protected [SPR-10950] #15578
• Add XStream CatchAllConverter [SPR-10821] #15447
• Order of values in @PropertySource annotation depends on name attribute [SPR-10820] #15446

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Cannot override singleton with scoped proxy [SPR-10744] #15370
• ClasspathXmlApplicationContext does not inherit/merge parent context environment [SPR-11068] #15695
• MockHttpServletRequestBuilder not handling parameter without value [SPR-11043] #15671
• @Autowired setter randomly called twice or not called at all when two beans of the same class [SPR-11027] #15655
• Bean definitions using indexed constructor arguments are not usable for @Autowired resolution [SPR-11019] #15647
• Unecessary logging about setNull with Oracle driver [SPR-11017] #15645
• Cannot override initializer of @ContextConfiguration when using @ContextHierarchy [SPR-10997] #15625
• TypeConverterDelegate standard conversion changes single element array to a class instance when trying to convert to Object [SPR-10996] #15624
• Spring cannot find setter if subclass overrides getter narrowing return type [SPR-10995] #15623
• @Bean overriding does not pick up metadata from most specific method [SPR-10992] #15620
• JavaConfig Bean overriding with addition [SPR-10988] #15616
• Mallforme Content-Type is not translated to 415 status code [SPR-10982] #15610
• LiteralExpression.getValue doesn't propagate 'EvaluationContext' to 'ExpressionUtils' for conversion [SPR-10953] #15581
• AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster throws NPE when ApplicationEvent's source is null [SPR-10945] #15573
• Invoking RedirectView.render from within a filter throws null pointer exception [SPR-10937] #15565
• @Resource is always marked as shareable [SPR-10931] #15559
• Fix 'problem locating method' SpEL error message [SPR-10928] #15556
• Typo on spring mvc reference docs : 'ContentNeogitatingViewResolver' [SPR-10927] #15555
• Duplicate scan of @Import annotations when inherited from another annotation [SPR-10918] #15546
• ArrayStoreException scanning subclassed enum annotation array with multiple values [SPR-10914] #15542
• Ehcache with RMI replication bug [SPR-10904] #15532
• Wrong translation of MS SQL Server RAISERROR [SPR-10902] #15530
• Memory Leak in AbstractBeanFactory, alreadyCreated HashSet not cleaned on failure in doGetBean [SPR-10896] #15524
• Abstract method mocking prints wrong call count in exception [SPR-10885] #15513
• Race condition in org.springframework.expression.spel.ast.MethodReference [SPR-10884] #15511
• Async DeferredResult OpenSessionInViewFilter [SPR-10874] #15501
• NullPointerException thrown by ExtendedBeanInfo with IBM J9 VM [SPR-10862] #15489
• AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext.register cannot be called multiple times [SPR-10852] #15479
• NPE in RestTemplate with Resource implementation where getFilename() returns null [SPR-10848] #15475
• spring-jms 3.0.4 introduces a change that breaks using JMSTemplate (and for that matter any JMS resource) with Oracle AQ when JMS Session are used in SESSION_TRANSACTED mode. [SPR-10829] #15455
• JaxB2Marshaller passes null InputSource to SaxSource constructor under certain condition [SPR-10828] #15454
• GenericTypeResolver does not resolve the correct parameter type when bound type is also ParameterizedType [SPR-10819] #15445
• MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter and MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter should use configured JSON prefix instead of hardcoded value. [SPR-10817] #15443
• MemoryLeak in AntPathMatcher during caching AntPathStringMatcher instances [SPR-10803] #15429
• BeanDefinitions registered using BeanDefinitionRegistry not always eligible for autowiring when using @Qualifier [SPR-10736] #15364
• Relax JavaBean rules for SpEL property access [SPR-10716] #15344
• SimpleJdbcCall: Function return type (REF CURSOR) should be resolved properly. [SPR-10606] #15235
• SpEL fails if class.name and name is evaluated in the same context [SPR-10486] #15119
• SPEL and Enum variable resolution using wrong cachedExecutor [SPR-10452] #15085
• Advisor silently skipped if it is currently in creation [SPR-10430] #15063
• Return type prediction for generic factory method fails if type conversion of method arguments is necessary [SPR-10411] #15044
• MethodResolver results are cached in SpEL expressions, so changing the context at evaluation time has no effect [SPR-9495] #14129

📔 Documentation

• Elvis operator will return "Nikola Tesla" and not "Mike Tesla" in ref docs [SPR-10850] #15477