:star: New Features

• Verify static resource location ends on slash #33712
• Support record canonical constructor in BeanUtils #33707
• Rename OverrideMetadata for Bean Overrides #33702
• Rename BeanOverrideStrategy enum constants #33701
• Polish ServletWebRequest #33698
• Remove support for relative paths in static resource handling #33687
• Add value attribute alias to @MockitoBean and @MockitoSpyBean #33680
• Reject bean names with factory prefix for Bean Overrides #33674
• Revise handling of URI variable syntax in WhatWG URL parser #33673
• Introspect pre-registered singletons in preDetermineBeanTypes as well #33668
• Remove unnecessary array length check #33655
• Polish CorsConfiguration #33650
• Add URL Parser for RFC 3986 #33639
• Handle X-Forwarded-Prefix parsed by Reactor-Netty in ReactorServerHttpRequest #33638
• RestClient should auto-detect ReactorClientHttpRequestFactory #33635
• Improve random source in SockJS support #33632
• Stop replacing existing Bean Override definitions with pseudo-definitions #33627
• Introduce enforceOverride flag in @TestBean and @MockitoBean #33613
• Refactor unwrapOptional method to improve readability and performance #33612
• ServerSentEvent should implement equals() and hashCode() #33606
• Reduce the GC pressure due to NoTransactionInContextException instances #33601
• Make DynamicPropertyRegistrarBeanInitializer public #33593
• Improve toString() for AbstractBeanDefinition and BeanMetadataAttribute #33579
• Add utility methods for resource handler checks #33574
• UrlHandlerFilter should not strip the trailing slash from the contextPath URL #33565
• AbstractGenericHttpMessageConverter has no constructor taking a Charset #33563
• JdbcClient ResultQuerySpec - Provide a optionalValue() method #33560
• Add read timeout setter on HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory #33556
• Fix virtual thread pinning caused by synchronized blocks in EclipseLinkJpaDialect #33546
• Add RestClient.Builder#messageConverters(List) #33536
• Refine null-safety for additional Assert methods #33530
• Throw runtime error for @TransactionalEventListener when @Transactional propagation level is not REQUIRES_NEW or NOT_SUPPORTED #33470
• With virtual threads enabled, long-running fixedDelay tasks block fixedRate tasks #33408
• Provide a public mechanism for detecting if AOT processing is in progress #33388
• Use only one request timeout mechanism in JdkClientHttpRequest #33090
• Support bean override features with AOT and native image #32933
• Limit reflective operations in BeanInstanceSupplier with Spring AOT #32834
• Mixin created with IntroductionInterceptor results in dynamic proxy instead of CGLIB proxy #31304
• Lenient URI parsing in ServletServerHttpRequest #30489
• Exclude authorization messages from ERROR logging in StompSubProtocolHandler #28252
• Propagate fully capable ServletContext in AbstractContextLoaderInitializer (for SessionCookieConfig access) #22319

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• PropertySourcesPropertyResolver no longer converts to non CharSequence types #33727
• Lower-casing of scheme in UriComponentsBuilder breaks use of URI variables #33699
• Remove @MockitoBeanSettings and support for MockitoSession management #33692
• @MockitoBeanSettings is not inherited in @Nested test class #33685
• AOT fails when generating code for a component declared as an inner-class #33683
• @MockitoBean reset and MockitoSession management do not work with @Nested tests #33676
• DurationFormatterUtils should not attempt to parse an empty duration #33669
• DefaultServerHttpRequestBuilder can create case-sensitive Headers instances #33666
• Context cache is broken if two Bean Override fields declare annotations in different order #33633
• Test bean override support should only override singletons #33602
• Kotlin checked exception thrown from proxy service causes UndeclaredThrowableException #33585
• Autowiring of generic beans with array types is broken since 6.2.0-M1 #33535
• AnnotatedBeanDefinitionReader should respect @Fallback qualifier analogous to @Primary #33533

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Add Javadoc since for headers() in Delete/Patch/Post/PutExchange #33723
• Document XML parser usage against security false positives #33713
• Update scheduling.adoc #33709
• Document TestExecutionListener implementations introduced in 6.2 #33661
• Replace RFC 7807 with RFC 9457 in documentation #33594
• Document that TestContextAnnotationUtils is required for proper @Nested test class support #33586
• Replace e.g. with for example #33515
• Document non-default candidate beans and Java-based configuration of non-autowire candidate beans #33392

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.18 #33615
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.0-RC1 #33648
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-RC1 #33636

:heart: Contributors

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

@EugeneNik, @J-unStiN, @Jaeyoung22, @Seungpang, @SungbinYang, @TAKETODAY, @boulce, @cfredri4, @chemicL, @chschu, @cmagnuson, @izeye, @khyojun, @kimjuke, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @quaff, @smartandhandsome, and @zinzoddari