:star: New Features

• Support ContextLoader config in @SpringJUnitConfig and @SpringJUnitWebConfig #31498
• TypeDescriptor and ResolvableType cache in GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor #31490
• Consistent Class and array matching in ResolvableType.isAssignableFrom #31487
• BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor should declare empty default postProcessBeanFactory method #31476
• Remove support for Protobuf 2.x and protobuf-java-format #31465
• Refine CRaC restoration logs #31462
• Allow repeatable writes in StreamingHttpOutputMessage #31449
• Add support for merging two BeanRegistrationAotContribution instances #31446
• Kotlin BeanFactory.getBean extension fails with nested generic in context #31439
• Log warning and skip resource hint registration for classpath location patterns #31429
• Revisit AOT support for generic constructor argument values #31420
• Add UriBuilderFactoryArgumentResolver. #31413
• Add Coroutines support for @Cacheable #31412
• PartEvent API should support limiting the number of file parts #31343
• Revise support for quoted identifiers in SimpleJdbcInsert #31208
• When configuration class parsing fails, provide more information about the class that triggered the failure #31146
• WebClientResponseException defaults to ISO-8859-1 #31072
• Introduce @DisabledInAotMode in the TestContext framework #30834
• Support TypedStringValue during AOT processing #29074
• Support ETag generation on ResourceHttpRequestHandler #29031
• Better error reporting for @Bean creating when bean instance has been replaced with an incompatible type #28897
• Add Coroutines support for @EventListener #28343
• Support "*" catch-all mappings for MockMvc Filter registrations #28041
• Guard against ConcurrentModificationException when the response processes commitActions #27587
• Improve ControlFlowPointcut extensibility #27187
• Uploading a too-large file should be a 4xx client error, not a 500 Internal Server Error #27170
• Add special handling of disconnected client errors in ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver #26181

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• ConstructorResolver rejects a candidate if the parameter value is null #31495
• 3.2.0-RC1: No primary or single unique constructor found for interface java.util.Set #31488
• Can't link to Spring Framework 6.1.0 release candidate documentation #31480
• In MockMvc tests all filters end up with empty-string filterName, breaking OncePerRequestFilter #31474
• <mvc:annotation-driven> should not instantiate bean property values #31472
• Graal VM native image: Substitution target for o.s.o.j.v.Target_BytecodeProvider is not loaded #31452
• JdkClientHttpRequest does not support Content-Length 0 #31451
• Fix typo in ClassUtils.forName() #31428
• AOT processing fails to determine proper target for a FactoryBean that produces an array #31426
• BeanDefinitionPropertyValueCodeGenerator#orderForConsistency expects values to be Comparable #31419
• Conversion not applied to @RequestParam default value if used for "null after conversion" case #31336
• HandlerMethodValidationException.Visitor incorrectly triggers other() method instead of requestParam() for @RequestParam validation errors #31329
• AbstractApplicationContext.refresh() leaves bean resources uncleaned when SmartInitializationSingleton throws a non BeansException #28878

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Document pattern matching support in NameMatchMethodPointcut #31500
• Fix small typo in javadoc #31455
• Expand explanation for the "lite" bean approach #29957

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to ASM 9.6 #31431
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.20-RC2 #31494

:heart: Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @bdshadow, @funky-eyes, @izeye, @larsgrefer, and @mmoayyed