:star: New Features

• Improve optional parameter checks for HTTP Interface argument #33339
• Two @Bean methods with the same bean name should consistently throw an exception #33330
• Support static headers for http interface clients #33309
• Add DatabaseClient bind variant for list of positioned parameters #33274
• HandlerMethodValidator should support simple Cross-Parameter constraints #33271
• UserCredentialsConnectionFactoryAdapter should provide credentials to createContext #33270
• Support flexible multi-unit duration format in @DurationFormat #33262
• MockMvc should prepare a FilterRegistration when initializing filters #33252
• Add option to ignore bean registration with AOT #33243
• Support JAXBElement in Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter #33233
• MimeMessageHelper does not set filename on inline MimeBodyPart #33230
• Add handling for AsyncRequestNotUsableException to ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #33225
• Allow formatting of Collection values for @RequestParam with HTTP interface client #33220
• Support rendering stream of fragments #33194
• Allow resolving nested placeholders if value is not String but CharSequence #32876
• Support multiple style of parsing/printing Durations #30396
• Restore support for Freemarker request parameters and taglibs now that it supports Jakarta #30186
• AOT/native support when registering beans with the Kotlin DSL #29555
• Offer a way for MockitoTestExecutionListener to enable strict stubbing #33318
• Provide access to all counters in case of BatchUpdateException with multiple batches #23867
• Low level cache failure for sync/reactive/future Cacheable get is not handled by CacheErrorHandler #21590

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Programmatic NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException in CacheAspectSupport should match message structure #33305
• JdbcClient.MappedQuerySpec::single can return null #33300
• Registration of DynamicPropertyRegistry in a test context has broken native testing #33272
• MapAccessor#canWrite incorrectly returns true for non-Map target #33265
• BeanDefinition processed by AOT does not keep fallback flag #33261
• ImportSelector#getExclusionFilter does not exclude matching candidates with import selector #27080

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Document that SpEL expressions using bean references are not compilable #33363
• Remove duplicated "the" in Javadoc #33308
• Update documentation for fragment rendering #33195
• Document ControllerAdviceBean as internal usage #32776

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.0-M2 #33327
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M5 #33328

:heart: Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @benelog, @deblockt, @doljae, @izeye, @quaff, and @zinzoddari