4.2.0-M1

New Features

• Remove redundant whitespace #1688
• Remove deprecated ContextSourceAndDataSourceTransactionManager #1631
• Support DirContextAdapter Post-processing in LdapClient #1629
• Support Customizing Remove-by-value Decision #1628
• Use REPLACE for attributes without equality matching #1595
• Add Micrometer to Snapshot Test #1506

Bug Fixes

• Validate Java Name in AttributeSchema #1667
• Fix Missing toHexString #1665
• Update README links JavaDoc, Code of Conduct, and Contribution Guidelines #1630
• Document that building Spring LDAP requires JDK 25 #1586
• Replace stray mysema Assert with springframework Assert #1584
• Cleanup grammatical errors in JavaDoc #1577
• Use Provided ContextSource in PoolingContextSource Constructor #1569
• Constructor of PoolingContextSource ignores given contextSource #1545

Dependency Upgrades

• Bump com.apollographql.apollo:apollo-runtime from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0 #1718
• Bump com.apollographql.apollo from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0 #1717
• Bump io.spring.develocity.conventions from 0.0.25 to 0.0.26 #1716
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.1.0-M2 #1706
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.8.0-M2 #1705
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.18.0-M2 #1704
• Update to Micrometer Tracing 1.8.0-M1 #1703
• Update to Micrometer 1.18.0-M1 #1702
• Update to Spring Framework 4.1.0-M1 #1701
• Update to spring-security-release-tools v1.0.18 #1698
• Bump org.sonarsource.scanner.gradle:sonarqube-gradle-plugin from 7.4.0.8496 to 7.5.0.8588 #1681
• Bump org.yaml:snakeyaml from 2.6 to 2.7 #1680
• Bump io.spring.nullability:io.spring.nullability.gradle.plugin from 0.0.15 to 0.0.16 #1679
• Bump org.slf4j:slf4j-bom from 2.0.18 to 2.0.19 #1678
• Bump antora from 3.2.0-rc.3 to 3.2.0 #1670
• Bump io.spring.gradle:spring-security-release-plugin from 1.0.16 to 1.0.17 #1641
• Bump org.freemarker:freemarker from 2.3.34 to 2.3.35 #1640
• Bump io.spring.nullability:io.spring.nullability.gradle.plugin from 0.0.14 to 0.0.15 #1635
• Bump io.spring.javaformat:spring-javaformat-gradle-plugin from 0.0.47 to 0.0.48 #1600

❤️ Contributors

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

@MacAlsandair, @arimu1, @benelog, @jjh75607, @kalayciburak, and @ngocnhan-tran1996