:star: New Features

• ClassLoader can be null in DeserializingConverter and should be annotated with @Nullable #30670
• Introduce TestExecutionListener for Micrometer's ObservationRegistry in the TestContext framework #30658
• Add missing hint for ResourceEditor #30628
• Add missing hint for converting String to URI #30627
• Redesign inner Pointcut implementations as standalone classes #30621
• Add missing @Nullable in DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory #30620
• Handle custom JMS acknowledgment modes as client acknowledge #30619
• Declare Advisor#isPerInstance() as default method #30614
• Improve error message for unsupported character in SpEL expression #30602
• Multipart data is always read irrelevant of handler response #30590
• Performance optimization in AbstractBeanFactoryBasedTargetSource.hashCode() #30576
• Log a warning when commons-logging is in the classpath #30575
• Always use MethodArgumentNotValidException(MethodParameter, BindingResult) constructor #30558
• Remove non-empty filename check in ContentDisposition builder #30537
• Add missing EntityManagerFactory hints for SharedEntityManagerCreator #30523
• Disable Hibernate reflection optimizer with native #30521
• Introduce a method in MockHttpServletRequestBuilder to set remote address #30497
• Skip class transformer in PersistenceUnitInfoDescriptor for native images #30492
• @Bean 'lite' mode not supported if @Bean methods are not declared locally #30449
• Align HibernateJpaVendorAdapter with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #30288
• Add nested propagation support to R2dbcTransactionManager #30134

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Cron expression scheduling might be triggered 1 millisecond earlier #30666
• Change of behaviour for UUID in bean validation output in v5.3.27 #30661
• Test context cache stats are not logged when ApplicationContext fails to load #30635
• Inconsistent ProxyCallbackFilter#equals/hashCode methods in CglibAopProxy #30615
• SpEL's CompoundExpression.toStringAST() incorrectly includes . for indexed properties #30610
• NPE in ReactiveTransactionSupport.unwrapIfResourceCleanupFailure #30597
• CollectionFactory.createMap(HashMap.class, 0) now returns a LinkedHashMap rather than a HashMap #30596
• ThreadLocalTargetSource does not include actual target bean name in NamedThreadLocal #30581
• ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter inconsistently publishes events from CompletableFuture #30578
• Unsupported SQL type: TIMESTAMP_WITH_TIMEZONE when using OffsetDateTime with MySQL #30556
• SpringBeanContainer not called with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #30545
• WebFlux returns 406 instead of RFC 7807 response for subtype of ProblemDetail #30533
• HTTP Interface client cannot send URI query parameter with multipart request #30520
• Transaction isolation level not working with R2dbcTransactionManager #30508
• Support for AOT processing with GraalVM tracing agent is not consistent #30511
• For @Bean method that returns null, @Autowired injects NullBean instead of null for cached arguments #30485
• MediaType property binding issue in native builds #30491
• InjectionMetadata AOT contributions do not check for existing property value #30476
• Spring Framework 6.0.8 appears to cause issues in OSGi environment #30389
• Empty @RequestMapping method should match both "" and "/" consistently #30293
• EclipseLinkJpaDialect: Unexpected default isolation levels #29997
• Memory leak with CglibAopProxy$ProxyCallbackFilter #26266

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Fix markup issue in Javadoc of QuartzCronField #30646
• Document @DirtiesContext semantics when declared at the class level and method level #30623
• Add missing Javadoc for RegisteredBean.resolveAutowiredArgument() #30609
• Fix invalid link in transaction resources #30570
• FileSystemUtils::deleteRecursively Javadoc refers to File instead of Path #30554
• Improve Javadoc for ExchangeFilterFunction #30543
• Update Javadoc and reference doc for WebMvcConfigurer to mention Boot's HttpMessageConverters #30538
• Add Javadoc since to InjectedElement.shouldInject() #30512
• Fix wording in r2dbc Statement Filters section of ref docs #30482
• Typo in Spring official documentation #30473
• Link for @javax.annotation.Nonnull is wrong in Javadoc for Spring's @NonNull #30455
• Improve how the build deals with javadoc invalid references #30428
• Docs: Remove duplicate in SpEL feature list #30404
• Document which @Scheduled attributes support SpEL expressions #29290

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to micrometer-bom 1.10.8 and context-propagation 1.0.3 #30657
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.8 #30655

:heart: Contributors

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

@Foolkin, @anyuruf, @galingerv, @izeye, @jmewes, @kihyuk-sung, @leewin12, @marcingrzejszczak, @rweisleder, @rwinch, @scordio, @ssang1105, and @vpavic