Release v6.2.8 · spring-projects/spring-framework

⭐ New Features

Nullability @Contract declaration for CodeFlow.isIntegerForNumericOp() is unnecessary #34985
Serializer hint registration is broken for some Kotlin classes #34979
Clients created using JdkClientHttpRequestFactory set content-length for GET, DELETE and HEAD requests #34971
Support registration of non-public BeanDefinitionReader via @ImportResource #34928
Make max size for pattern cache in PathPatternMatchableHandlerMapping configurable #34918
Add optimized DataBufferInputStream overrides #34799

Encode non-printable character in Content-Disposition parameter #35034
Allow update of existing WebSession after max sessions limit is reached #35013
Fix support for collections in AbstractKotlinSerializationHttpMessageConverter #34992
PathPattern#combine throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException #34986
Fix AOT code generation for autowired inner class constructor #34974
AbstractFileResolvingResource.exists closes JAR resource input streams with v6.2.7 #34955
Enhanced configuration class fails to call package-visible superclass constructor on WebSphere #34950
Fix REPLY_CHANNEL header check in MessageHeaderAccessor #34949
MockEnvironment does not accept Object property values #34947
PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer no longer uses ConversionService from Environment #34936
@Contract for StreamUtils.drain() incorrectly declares null results in an exception #34933
Inconsistent behavior injecting null @Bean factory parameter #34929
MockHttpServletRequest.addHeader duplicates "Content-Type" header #34913
BeanUtils.getParameterNames fails for Kotlin data classes #34760
JAXB message converters ignore Content-Type charset #34745
Aspect Not Triggered After Restart in Spring Boot 3.4.x (But Works in 3.3.10) #34735
Add caching headers to unmodified static resources #34614

Apply gh-34856 to MockClientHttpRequest in testfixture package #35031
Fix ResourceHttpRequestHandler#setHeaders JavaDoc #35004
Remove reference to AspectJ Eclipse Javadoc #35000
Mention CompletableFuture in Spring MVC "Asynchronous Requests" section of reference manual #34991
Fix exception name in ModelAttribute docs #34980
Fix syntax in @SqlGroup example #34972
Update X-Forwarded-Proto doc to say https / http #34959
Update Guidance on Best Practices To Test Code That Uses RestClient and RestTemplate #34892
Add a section for WebAsyncTask in mvc-ann-async.adoc #34885
Clarify what @RestControllerAdvice vs @ControllerAdvice apply to by default #34866
Improve Javadoc for @ExceptionHandler #34554

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