:star: New Features

• HibernateTransactionManager compatibility with Hibernate 6.0/6.1 #28813
• Reject JDK proxy hint registration for sealed interfaces #28786
• Provide SerializationHintsPredicates in RuntimeHintsPredicates #28772
• Deprecate convention-based annotation attribute overrides in favor of @AliasFor #28760
• Add native image support for WebSocket STOMP messaging #28754
• Simplify hint registration for Spring AOP proxies #28745
• Only use JPMS exports as we don't need reflection access #28733
• Open GraalVM internals to the ConstantFieldFeature #28732
• Add support for records in BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar #28721
• Replace java.util.Date and TimeUnit usage in scheduling with appropiate java.time classes #28714
• Jackson well-known module support in native image #28709
• RuntimeHints missing for WebFlux #28701
• Add runtime hints for AbstractHandshakeHandler #28697
• native-image: Problem with Scheduled annotation #28696
• native-image: Support for MethodValidationPostProcessor #28689
• native-image: Field 'PROPAGATION_REQUIRED' not found in class TransactionDefinition #28688
• Allow dynamic properties in ProblemDetail #28665
• Add Kotlinx Serialization support to BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar #28635
• Add ResourceHints registrar for classpath patterns #28626
• Replace build-time initialization by constant field evaluation at build-time #28624
• Add reflection hints for data binding in Web controllers #28623
• Add reflection hints for HttpEntity used in Web controllers #28622
• Introduce ResourcePatternHint#toRegex #28620
• Add ifPresent utility methods on RuntimeHints #28617
• Register native hints for jakarta.inject annotations #28614
• Use PathPatternParser by default in Spring MVC #28607
• Support that the same RuntimeHintsRegistrar can be specified multiple times and invoked only once #28594
• Rationalize naming strategy in ApplicationContextAotGenerator #28585
• Add minimal Kotlin DSL RouterFunction attributes support #28569
• Introduce attribute support in Kotlin RouterFunction DSL #28567
• Allow ApplicationContextAotGenerator to generated better class names #28565
• Allow BeanRegistrationAotContributions to provide BeanRegistrationCodeFragments customization #28557
• Introduce RuntimeHints predicates utilities #28555
• Deprecate trailing slash match and change default value from true to false #28552
• Improve options for exception handling in HTTP interface client #28533
• Add reflection hints for Web controllers #28518
• Ambiguous behavior for ClassNameGenerator::generateClassName #28517
• Support module path scanning for "classpath*:" resource prefix #28506
• Refactor HttpServiceProxyFactory to be suitable as an infrastructure bean #28505
• Allow custom HTTP method with @HttpExchange methods #28504
• Create UrlResource factory methods that throw unchecked exceptions #28501
• Introduce utility to register hints for an annotation that uses AliasFor #28497
• Support property placeholders in url attribute of @HttpExchange #28492
• Support default methods in @HttpExchange interface #28491
• Introduce AotDetector mode #28474
• Introduce a meta-annotation that indicates the annotated element requires reflection hints #28469
• Add level guards for trace logging in SpringFactoriesLoaderRuntimeHintsRegistrar #28465
• Add resolver for request attributes for @HttpExchange methods #28458
• Add WebFlux equivalent of ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #28439
• Avoid collectList when sending a Flux of objects as JSON using WebClient #28398
• Avoid loading XML files for default SQL exception translation #28216
• Refine runtime hint conditions #28126
• Provide testing infrastructure for RuntimeHints #27981
• Simplify default locale/timezone resolution in cookie/session locale resolvers #27609
• Nested Exception's message should not include the messages from causal chain #25162
• Add If-Match support and improve If-None-Match wildcard support #24881

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Guard against NPE in PathMatchConfigurer #28816
• AnnotationTypeMapping tracks @AliasFor mappings as convention-based #28773
• Support by-type constructor references in ConstructorOrFactoryMethodResolver #28728
• AOT generated code leads to exception on startup: Object of class [java.lang.Boolean] must be an instance of boolean #28727
• HtmlUnit / MockMvc integration handles forwarded URLs partially #28722
• StackOverflowError when using BindingReflectionHintsRegistrar #28683
• Wrong reflection hints for arrays of inner types #28664
• Add automatic hint for autowired field support #28655
• Reflection configuration for parameter types with an inner class have wrong name #28606
• Fix ResourceHintsWriter for leading/trailing wildcards #28597
• JdkHttpClientResourceFactory has dependency on org.eclipse.jetty #28588
• CompileWithTargetClassAccessClassLoader does not implement findResource #28574
• ScopedProxyBeanRegistrationAotProcessor is never called #28561
• Proxy hint missing when AliasFor is used on the annotation itself #28528
• Fix attribute return types in @DeleteExchange, @PatchExchange, and @PutExchange #28498
• Correctly detect Optional return type for @HttpExchange methods #28493
• Resolve package cycle around MissingServletRequestPartException #28455
• findAnnotationOnBean finds annotations from a static @Bean method's enclosing class #28298

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Fix WebClientAdapter.createHttpServiceProxyFactory() example in ref docs #28753
• Remove obsolete references to @Required #28600
• Improve ResourcePatternHint documentation #28598
• Use getHost instead of getContainerIpAddress in Redis examples #28461
• Update documentation for RFC 7807 support #28438

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade client support to R2DBC 1.0 #28787
• Upgrade Dokka to 1.7 #28641
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.7.0 #28619
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.7.10 #28784
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.0-M4 #28766

:heart: Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

• @izeye
• @LucasManto
• @mhalbritter
• @eddumelendez
• @wonwoo
• @diguage
• @christophejan
• @neiser
• @vpavic