v7.2.0-RC1

⭐ New Features

• Add MQTT outbound channel adapter implementation #11530
• Make SerializingHttpMessageConverter to require allowedPatterns from its ctor #11480
• Add Inbound Channel Adapter for MQTT based on hivemq #10989
• Spring Integration JMS DefaultJmsHeaderMapper doesn't have feature to set the OutboundHeaderNames and InboundHeaderNames [INT-4412] #8337
• Provide a Bean Validation (JSR 303) filter [INT-4068] #8009
• Add Proxy support to DefaultFtpSessionFactory [INT-2505] #6485
• FeedEntryMessageSource fails if entry date fields are null [INT-1810] #5797

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Remove broken stack trace from HttpRequestHandlingController errors #11515
• Reject unconvertible messages in AMQP 1.0 inbound endpoints #11500
• PropertiesPersistingMetadataStore does not retry flush after an IOException #11495

📔 Documentation

• Improve docs for security concerns of the SerializingHttpMessageConverter #11455
• Fix typos in the documentation and XSD #11454

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade micrometer-tracing to 1.8.0-RC1 #11593
• Upgrade micrometer to 1.18.0-RC1 #11591
• Upgrade reactor to 2026.0.0-RC1 #11588
• Upgrade spring-amqp to 4.2.0-RC1 #11585
• Upgrade spring-data-bom to 2026.1.0-RC1 #11582
• Upgrade spring-graphql to 2.1.0-RC1 #11579
• Upgrade spring-kafka to 4.2.0-RC1 #11576
• Upgrade spring-security to 7.2.0-RC1 #11573
• Upgrade spring-framework to 7.1.0-RC1 #11570
• Upgrade spring-ws to 5.1.0-RC1 #11567
• Bump cloudEventsVersion from 5.0.0 to 5.1.0 #11552
• Bump io.lettuce:lettuce-core from 7.8.0.RELEASE to 7.9.0.RELEASE #11551
• Bump com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-annotations from 4.10.4 to 4.10.5 #11550
• Bump com.hivemq:hivemq-mqtt-client from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 #11549
• Bump org.apache.camel:camel-bom from 4.22.1 to 4.23.0 #11547
• Bump io.grpc:grpc-bom from 1.84.2 to 1.85.0 #11545
• Bump io.freefair.aggregate-javadoc from 9.8.0 to 9.8.2 #11544
• Bump gradle-wrapper from 9.8.0 to 9.8.1 #11529
• Bump io.grpc:grpc-bom from 1.84.0 to 1.84.2 #11528
• Bump com.esotericsoftware:kryo from 5.7.0 to 5.7.1 #11527
• Bump kotlinVersion from 2.4.20 to 2.4.21 #11526
• Bump org.checkerframework:checker-qual from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 #11523
• Bump io.freefair.aggregate-javadoc from 9.7.0 to 9.8.0 #11514
• Bump org.checkerframework:checker-qual from 4.2.3 to 4.3.0 #11513
• Bump org.codelibs:jcifs from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 #11511
• Bump debeziumVersion from 3.6.3.Final to 3.7.0.Final #11510
• Bump com.esotericsoftware:kryo from 5.6.2 to 5.7.0 #11508
• Bump org.apache.sshd:sshd-sftp from 2.19.0 to 2.20.0 #11507
• Bump io.lettuce:lettuce-core from 7.7.0.RELEASE to 7.8.0.RELEASE #11493
• Bump org.mongodb:mongodb-driver-bom from 5.12.0 to 5.13.0 #11492
• Bump gradle-wrapper from 9.7.1 to 9.8.0 #11491
• Bump tools.jackson:jackson-bom from 3.2.2 to 3.2.3 #11490
• Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.23.0 to 5.24.0 #11488
• Bump org.apache.groovy:groovy-bom from 5.1.2 to 6.0.0 #11477
• Bump io.freefair.aggregate-javadoc from 9.5.0 to 9.7.0 #11468
• Bump com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom from 2.22.2 to 2.22.3 #11467
• Bump org.jruby:jruby-complete from 10.1.1.0 to 10.1.2.0 #11466

❤️ Contributors

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

@Ashutosh-Panda2004, @janwaleed09, @mjd507, and @ngocnhan-tran1996