⭐ New Features

• Support of SQL warnings in ScriptUtils [SPR-13959] #18532
• PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver should provide consistent logging [SPR-13923] #18495
• Automatically register a fixed path pattern when using a FixedStrategy with VersionResourceResolver [SPR-13883] #18456
• Improve Jackson 2.7 compatibility [SPR-13853] #18426
• Lot of undesired WARN logs after migration from Spring 3 to Spring 4 [SPR-13833] #18406
• Oracle 12c JDBC driver throws inconsistent exception from getParameterType (affecting setNull calls) [SPR-13825] #18398
• SimpleTriggerFactoryBean and CronTriggerFactoryBean fail without jobDetail [SPR-13604] #18182
• SimpleNamespaceContext does not implement the full contract of the NamespaceContext interface [SPR-13713] #17620

🪲 Bug Fixes

• TimerManagerTaskScheduler.TimerScheduledFuture.getDelay is inverted [SPR-13977] #18549
• @Lazy with @Autowired(required=false) throws NullPointerException on invocation [SPR-13967] #18539
• Spring ORM doesn't support addNamedQuery with EclipseLink [SPR-13957] #18530
• (Web)MergedContextConfiguration.equals is not symmetrical [SPR-13951] #18524
• AbstractMarshaller's DocumentBuilderFactory instance may be used by several threads simultaneously [SPR-13935] #18507
• Spring fails to find bean's destroy method in case there is a bridge method [SPR-13922] #18494
• ReflectiveMethodResolver chooses parent class over child for static methods [SPR-13918] #18492
• NullPointerException while building error message in InvocableHandlerMethod [SPR-13917] #18491
• AbstractXlsxView does not work on WebSphere Liberty Profile [SPR-13910] #18484
• Regression: BufferedImageHttpMessageConverter does not set content-type header [SPR-13906] #18480
• STOMP over SockJS is unreliable [SPR-13904] #18478
• @Transactional tests are executed without a transaction if transaction manager is not discovered [SPR-13895] #18469
• Regression: SPR-12443 breaks singleton bean references within a configuration class with null arguments [SPR-13887] #18460
• LocalSessionFactoryBean (hibernate5) does not correctly pass custom ClassLoader to Hibernate [SPR-13879] #18452
• ServletServerHttpRequest.getURI() escape the query parameters twice [SPR-13876] #18449
• SessionDisconnectEvent.getUser() returns null instead of the session user [SPR-13871] #18444
• ResponseEntity CacheControl ignored / extended by RequestMappingHandlerAdapter [SPR-13867] #18440
• FastByteArrayOutputStream$FastByteArrayInputStream behaves incorrectly when no data is available [SPR-13858] #18431
• Spring does not reliably detect circular imports in Java configurations [SPR-13852] #18425
• RequestPartMethodArgumentResolver should defensively handle MethodParameter nesting level and java.util.Optional access [SPR-13850] #18423
• Regression: ResourceUrlEncodingFilter can throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException with relative URL [SPR-13847] #18420
• Regression: Shared EntityManager proxy insists on actualTransactiveActive flag even with SYNCHRONIZATION_NEVER [SPR-13838] #18411
• Handle RejectedExecutionException in WebAsyncManager [SPR-13836] #18409
• Regression: Spring 4.2.4 fails to load configuration class on Google App Engine [SPR-13829] #18402
• Preserve HTTP headers when caching resources in CachingResourceResolver [SPR-13817] #18390
• Correct spring-websocket-4.2 versus spring-websocket-4.1 xsd declarations [SPR-13804] #18377
• DefaultMessageListenerContainer hangs on shutdown [SPR-11787] #16409

📔 Documentation

• @ComponentScan's includeFilters javadoc is misleading [SPR-13844] #18417
• wrong example given at section 17.4 Handler mappings [SPR-13832] #18405