:star: New Features

• Add native support for @Convert on JPA entities #29771
• @RequestPart dto not configured for reflection in aot #29749
• Avoid wasted memory on empty maps and sets #29742
• Compatibility with Hibernate ORM 6.2 #29736
• Add Kotlin DSL support for MockMVC andExpectAll #29727
• Add ExecutingResponseCreator to delegate request and response #29721
• JmsTemplate.convertAndSend throws NullPointerException during shutdown #29706
• Extract ResourceEntityResolver HTTPS schema resolution fallback #29697
• @Configuration classes with Kotlin in native-image are broken #29663
• Introduce Kotlin DSL for ResultActions.andExpectAll() #27317

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• ResourceHandlers cannot resolve static resources with certain wildcard patterns #29712
• Conflict on insert gets translated to DataIntegrityViolationException instead of DuplicateKeyException in Spring 6 #29699

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• fix typo in core-aot.adoc #29788
• Polish #29727: Mention Kotlin andExpectAll in reference manual #29766
• Update Jakarta Mail info in ref docs #29707
• Trigger/TriggerContext reference documentation outdated #29702
• Improve documentation for literals in SpEL expressions #29700
• Small fixes and improvements to the reference documentation #29694
• Fix manipulating property sources example in Javadoc for ConfigurableEnvironment #29693

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.3 #29802
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.2 #29797

:heart: Contributors

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

@Dunemaster, @IDJack, @diguage, @izeye, and @quim3ra