:warning: Attention Required

• Introduce Spring property to disable context pausing for tests #36117
• Avoid unnecessary pausing of application contexts in the TestContext framework #36044

:star: New Features

• DisconnectedClientHelper should detect presence of RestClientException and WebClientException separately #36141
• Deprecate PagedListHolder and PropertyComparator for removal #36139
• Add DataAccessException and MessagingException to the excluded outermost exceptions in DisconnectedClientHelper #36134
• Support property placeholders in HTTP service registry #36126
• Retain original requested bean class for SpringContainedBean #36116
• Add task rejection support to SyncTaskExecutor's concurrency throttle #36114
• Precompute PropertyDescriptor array in SimpleBeanInfoFactory #36112
• Add option for @ConcurrencyLimit to throw rejection exception #36109
• Support HttpComponents 5.6 #36100
• Fix double encoding in DefaultApiVersionInserter #36097
• Optimize single-char wildcard path matching performance #36095
• Allow WebFlux ApiVersionResolver to return a Mono #36084
• Configure HttpMessageConverters as a list #36083
• HTTP Interface with an @RequestBody Object method parameter should use class of actual value #36078
• Consistently declare @Nullable on parameter in equals() implementations #36075
• Support listener registration for @Transactional triggered method rollbacks #36073
• Introduce generalized MethodFailureEvent for use in EventPublicationInterceptor #36072
• Avoid duplicate flushes in StringHttpMessageConverter #36065
• When no API version is provided, static resources fail to load #36059
• When no API version is provided, /error requests also fail. #36058
• Declare TaskCallback return value as potentially nullable #36057
• Fix case-insensitive semantics for LinkedCaseInsensitiveMap entrySet #36056
• Update to NullAway 0.12.15 and fix new warnings #36054
• Provide alternative to execute(Retryable) which avoids RetryException in favor of rethrowing the last original RuntimeException #36052
• Simplify TransactionalOperator.executeAndAwait by removing Optional #36039
• Deprecated MockMvcClientHttpRequestFactory is required for tests with HTTP service interface proxy #35989
• Introduce Jackson XML codecs #35752
• Support listener registration for @Retryable triggered retry executions #35382

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Fix SmartFactoryBean type matching for ResolvableType.NONE #36123
• AbstractMessageSendingTemplate ignores headers in convertAndSend() variant #36120
• JmsClient.sendAndReceive() fails if headers are included #36118
• PropertyDescriptorUtils does not reliably resolve overloaded write methods #36113
• Fix context class resolution for nested types in AbstractJacksonHttpMessageConverter #36111
• DefaultApiVersionInserter encodes already encoded URI #36080
• ConverterFactory nullness mismatch with Converter #36063

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Clarify unversioned handler matching precedence #36125
• Clarify meaning of maxAttempts in FixedBackOff vs. maxRetries in RetryPolicy #36119
• Polishing AOT cache documentation #36108
• Upgrade Antora dependencies #36105
• Modernize the DispatcherServlet Locale documentation #36099
• Fix Kotlin example in Multipart Content #36094
• Remove @EnableWebFlux from documentation code snippets #36091
• Fix Kotlin example in CORS and Functional Endpoints references #36089

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.16.2 #36145
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.2 #36144

:heart: Contributors

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

@JKaplanEmpty-Nes, @MukjepScarlet, @TerryTaoYY, @haydenrear, @jhan0121, @jher235, @marcphilipp, @mipo256, @msridhar, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @parkhojeong, @philipbolting, @playous, @quaff, @thelightway24, and @xyraclius