4.3 GA Release

⭐ New Features

• CorsConfiguration checkHeaders wildcard ALL should allow matching empty strings header [SPR-14617] #19184
• AsyncRestTemplate changes in SPR-13413 made its harder to detect Client/Server errors [SPR-14353] #18925
• Allow method inlining of ObjectUtils.nullSafeEquals() [SPR-14349] #18921
• SpringHandlerInstantiator should support all HandlerInstantiator-provided factory methods [SPR-14347] #18919
• Caching annotation on interface are ignored when cglib proxies are used [SPR-14343] #18915
• FormHttpMessageConverter should use configured charset (by default UTF-8) for "text-plain" MIME part conversion as well [SPR-14338] #18910
• Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder/FactoryBean should accept deserializers by handled type as well [SPR-14337] #18909
• Support for Hibernate ORM 5.2 [SPR-14327] #18899
• Consistent Error handling in MessageChannel implementations [SPR-14323] #18895
• Allow constructor injection at CompositeDatabasePopulator [SPR-14313] #18885
• AcceptHeaderLocaleResolver should allow to define a default Locale [SPR-14312] #18884
• Spring Web should process requests with empty/invalid mime type [SPR-14309] #18881
• MockRestServiceServerBuilder cannot be cached [SPR-14306] #18878
• negating specific media type in RequestMapping causes requests with no Accept header to fail [SPR-14299] #18871
• All SockJS fallback options fail if request.getRemotePort() is not forwarded by proxy [SPR-14295] #18867
• @ExceptionHandler should match cause as well (e.g. for exception thrown from argument formatter) [SPR-14291] #18863
• Poor comparison for ContentRequestMatchers#bytes [SPR-14281] #18853
• SimpleBrokerMessageHandler makes an assertion about the type of the MessageHeaderAccessor, but doesn't seem to care [SPR-14279] #18851
• Apply @SafeVarargs at MockRestRequestMatchers#header [SPR-14278] #18850
• ForwardedHeaderFilter could support X-Forwarded-Prefix as well [SPR-14270] #18842
• JettyWebSocketSession.send*Message() can throw Jetty-specific WebSocketException instead of IOException [SPR-14267] #18839
• MockMvcWebConnection should update cookie manager with MockHttpServletResponse cookies [SPR-14265] #18837
• Add database product name for SAP HANA [SPR-14261] #18833
• DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.determineDefaultPersistenceUnitRootUrl fails when run from a shaded jar [SPR-14246] #18819
• Add option to log headers to AbstractRequestLoggingFilter [SPR-14245] #18818
• BeanPropertyRowMapper should use ConversionService for date-time support [SPR-13888] #18461
• SpEl does not support conjunction (&&) and disjunction (||) logic [SPR-7652] #12308

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Different error codes on same formatter registered in different ways [SPR-14345] #18917
• AllEncompassingFormHttpMessageConverter ignores JAXB XML when Jackson used for JSON [SPR-14336] #18908
• Race condition in handling of @Lookup annotation [SPR-14333] #18905
• EventListenerMethodProcessor resolves classes (by MethodIntrospector) of lazy beans causing NoClassDefFoundError [SPR-14330] #18902
• After-completion callback not triggered for custom Throwable subclass [SPR-14329] #18901
• Headers were lost when returning a null StreamingResponseBody within a ResponseEntity [SPR-14315] #18887
• ConcurrentMapCacheManager's storeByValue does not pick up ClassLoader [SPR-14314] #18886
• Cannot put tiles:definition inside tiles:putAttribute [SPR-14311] #18883
• SettableListenableFuture.setException(Throwable) doesn't work for Error [SPR-14298] #18870
• @MatrixVariable Map<String, String> params [SPR-14294] #18866
• StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when calling BeanWrapperImpl.setPropertyValue("[']", "foobar") [SPR-14293] #18865
• @Bean not detected in extended interface [SPR-14288] #18860
• Scheduled tasks aren't cancelled on ScheduledTaskRegistrar destruction anymore [SPR-14286] #18858
• markBeanAsCreated does not clear merged bean definition in a thread-safe fashion [SPR-14269] #18841
• Memory leak on STOMP broker connections that fail before heartbeats start [SPR-14266] #18838
• Meta-@Conditional lookup does not work consistently with ASM [SPR-14257] #18829

📔 Documentation

• Doc: Constructor injection of arrays and collections [SPR-14332] #18904
• Improve reference documentation for Task Execution and Scheduling about bean scopes [SPR-14167] #18739
• Reference Documentation: Why does not exist an XML configuration version for @Async? [SPR-14164] #18736
• Document composed annotations for @RequestMapping in the reference manual [SPR-13995] #18568
• Document composed annotations for web scopes in the reference manual [SPR-13994] #18567
• Doc: @RestController works only with RequestMappingHandlerAdapter [SPR-13945] #18517
• Document TestContext bootstrap strategy in the reference manual [SPR-11683] #16306
• MultipartFilter documentation [SPR-11373] #16000