:star: New Features

• Update UndertowHttpHandlerAdapter to dispatch #33885
• Refine @Contract Javadoc to mention this and new return values #33849
• AOT processing for bean validation does not consider cascaded and container element constraints #33842
• Avoid repeated resolving of singleton beans through @Lazy proxy #33841
• Regiser runtime hints for @TestBean fully-qualified method names #33836
• Introduce support for custom reason in @DisabledInAotMode #33833
• Use optimistic locking where possible in ResponseBodyEmitter #33831
• Revise cookies support with Apache HTTP Components in WebClient and WebTestClient #33822
• Remove the pure attribute from @Contract #33820
• Introduce @CheckReturnValue annotation #33818
• ResourceHttpRequestHandler throwing IllegalArgumentException if resource doesn't end with slash breaks some third-party libraris #33815
• Provide first-class virtual thread option on ThreadPoolTaskExecutor/ThreadPoolTaskScheduler #33807
• HttpServiceProxyFactory should omit optional @RequestParam if converted from null to empty string #33794
• Reactor Netty response should not buffer the full response #33781
• Relax the visibility of MockMVC DSL constructors #33778
• Support Publisher to InputStream conversion #31677

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• MockReset should be honored without @Mockito[Spy]Bean fields #33829
• Test Bean Overrides do not honor @Primary semantics #33819
• Bean Overrides cannot reliably override beans created by a FactoryBean with generics #33811
• Bean Overrides for certain FactoryBean use cases no longer work #33800
• @MockitoBean, @MockitoSpyBean, & @TestBean do not work with @DirtiesContext "before method" modes #33783
• Deprecate exchangeTimeout and refactor readTimeout in ReactorClientHttpRequestFactory #33782

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Revise documentation for SpEL PropertyAccessor and IndexAccessor APIs regarding ordering #33862
• Document UrlHandler Servlet and reactive filters #33784
• Improve documentation for SpelCompilerMode #33223

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to ASM 9.7.1 (for early Java 24 support) #33821
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.0 #33876
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0 #33878

:heart: Contributors

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

@Hejow, @OlegDokuka, and @lucky8987