:star: New Features

• Support @RequestPart arguments for @HttpExchange methods #29420
• Processing of charset in Content-Type Header not case-insensitive #29416
• Allow for external customization and i8n of the "title" of an RFC 7807 response #29407
• Automatically register directories for registered resource hints #29403
• Allow registration of resource hint for root directory #29402
• Load ApplicationContextFailureProcessor implementations from spring.factories #29387
• Simplify mapping of custom exception to an RFC 7807 response in ResponseEntityExceptionHandler #29384
• Introduce SimpleValueStyler for use with ToStringCreator #29381
• Make DefaultValueStyler extensible #29380
• Introduce DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer for MariaDB #29379
• Handle case where ResponseEntity and ProblemDetail don't agree on the HTTP status to use #29378
• Provide AOT support for HttpServiceProxyFactory clients #29271
• Revise logging in the TestContext framework #29229

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Align server observation contextual names with OTel semantic conventions #29424
• Matching path pattern is not set in reactive ServerRequestObservationContext #29422
• PartEvent upload fails with JdkClientHttpConnector #29400
• Native image FileSystem should not be closed after classpath scanning #29397
• AOT processing loses bean aliases #29391
• WebClient and WebFlux Observation do not propagate context #29388
• HttpServiceProxyFactory raises IllegalStateException if created through the builder and declared as a bean #29376
• Multiple @ImportRuntimeHints in the type hierarchy should be supported #29361

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.14.0-rc3 #29405

:heart: Contributors

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

@fmbenhassine, @imkulwant, @izeye, and @marcingrzejszczak