v7.1.0-RC1

⚠️ Attention Required

• Remove APIs marked as deprecated for removal in 7.1 #37455
• Consistently treat 0 as no timeout in WebTestClient #37454
• Consistently treat 0 as no timeout in MockMvc #37453
• Consistently treat 0 as no timeout in RSocketServiceProxyFactory #37451
• Consistently treat 0 as no timeout in HTTP client support #37425
• Update default settings in WebFlux multipart handling to align with Spring Boot and Tomcat #36928
• Apply proxy with system properties to the default client in ReactorClientHttpConnector #36654
• ProblemDetail instance field set from the current URL path, does not respect RFC #35969

⭐ New Features

• Support JsonUnit as an alternative to JSONassert for JSON comparison in test APIs #37490
• Add RetryState-aware overloads for onRetrySuccess and onRetryFailure #37465
• Consistently treat 0 as no timeout in AsyncServerResponse #37452
• Destroy all filters in CompositeFilter despite failures #37445
• Refine DataAccessUtils to improve null-safety #37438
• Omit zero timeout in DefaultRetryPolicy.toString() #37437
• Avoid splitting surrogate pairs in StringUtils.truncate() #37435
• Support positive hexadecimal values in NumberUtils #37434
• Support compilation of String concatenation with non-String operands in SpEL #37433
• Fix nullability in LinkedCaseInsensitiveMap #37432
• Align parsing of jdk.httpclient.allowRestrictedHeaders in JdkClientHttpRequest with the JDK #37422
• Align restricted header handling in reactive JdkClientHttpRequest with non-reactive JdkClientHttpRequest #37417
• Configure problem details rendering through WebMvcConfigurer #37416
• Fix missing IDENTITY_FINISH characteristic in MergedAnnotationCollectors #37415
• Reject @AliasFor value and attribute when both have length #37413
• Give ErrorResponse.Interceptor access to the current request #37410
• Honor Map.equals() and Map.hashCode() contracts in CompositeMap #37401
• Support rendering problem details as views in @ExceptionHandler methods #37400
• Render exceptions not handled by ExceptionHandler methods as problem details #37398
• Further improve AnnotationAttributes.toString() #37396
• Improve primitive array handling in AnnotationAttributes.toString() #37395
• Exclude static methods from override check in AnnotatedMethod #37390
• Include root cause when MySQLMaxValueIncrementer fails to commit #37389
• Record MVC exceptions leading to HTTP 5xx as errors in observalibity stacks #37384
• Revise getBeanNamesForType caching to cover ResolvableType-based lookups as well #37382
• Support for Hibernate 8.0's BeanContainer SPI revision #37381
• Improve pre-bound JDBC Connection exception message #37356
• Reject Kotlin constructor default values in enhanced @Configuration classes #37350
• Rewrite CssLinkResourceTransformer for a single pass memory efficient parsing #37348
• Deprecate multi-batch batchUpdate variant in JdbcTemplate #37345
• Introduce entry-based DSL for JdbcClient batch updates #37341
• Honor Collection.remove() contract in CompositeCollection #37332
• Exclude static methods from override check in AnnotationsScanner #37319
• Support for JPA 4.0 package and module descriptor discovery #37316
• Set first batch arg once while executing batch with generated keys #37308
• Improve JdbcClient to align BatchSpec with StatementSpec #37307
• Include enum array attributes in TypeNotPresentException probing #37153
• Misleading port number defaults when parsing "Forwarded for" and "Forwarded by" header information #37114
• Remove MatchableHandlerMapping #37093
• Optimize get for all values in ServletRequestHeadersAdapter and ServletResponseHeadersAdapter #37080
• RestClient.Builder.configureMessageConverters disables the implicit registration of default converters. #36747
• Avoid update to request "Content-Type" for characterEncoding in ServletServerHttpRequest #36426
• Remove code to set the ServletResponse contentType and characterEncoding properties from the "Content-Type" header #36352

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Avoid int overflow for large Duration timeouts in ClientHttpRequestFactory implementations #37427
• Annotations are inherited from package-private method in superclass in different package #37408
• MVC MultipartParser requires Publisher on the classpath #37353
• Fix container detection in RepeatableContainers.standardRepeatables() #37326

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.18.0-RC1 #37439
• Upgrade to Reactor 2026.0.0-RC1 #37375

❤️ Contributors

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

@EsmaeilChitgar, @cookie-meringue, @guanchengang, @itsmevichu, @junhyeong9812, @lejuho, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @quaff, @rene-schakmann, and @xoruddl