v6.2.0-M5

⭐ New Features

• Harmonize handling of current factory method in SimpleInstantiationStrategy #33192
• Unwrap InvocationTargetException in SpEL's FunctionReference #33174
• Support rendering multiple fragments #33162
• Allow MessageHeaderAccessor to be created with existing headers #33153
• Generalize message conversion for HTTP message content in AssertJ support #33148
• Allow arbitrary packages to be scanned for Reflective usage #33132
• Support external methods referenced by fully-qualified name in @TestBean #33125
• Update Content-Type based on encoding in MVC FreeMarkerView #33119
• Introduce SmartHttpMessageConverter #33118
• Support property placeholders in @Sql script paths #33114
• Reject ModelMap argument types in WebFlux #33109
• Set output_encoding in FreeMarkerView implementations #33106
• Allow encoding to be set with a Charset in FreeMarker support #33102
• Let custom ObjectProvider implementations declare a single method only #33070
• Add support for running assertions on resolved exception in MockMvcTester #33060
• Add dedicated support for printing the MvcResult in MockMvcTester #33059
• Provide a way to determine if a context is in the process of being closed #33058
• MockHttpServletRequestBuilder should merge URI from the parent if necessary #33057
• Fail fast if a @Bean method declares @Autowired as well #33051
• Add dedicated async dispatch support for MockMvcTester #33040
• Add dedicated multipart support for MockMvcTester #33027
• spring-form JSP tags should escape HTML value based on response character encoding #33023
• SimpleClientHttpResponse throws IOException when response body is empty and status code is >= 400 #33020
• MockHttpServletResponse defaults to ISO-8859-1 for JSON while the rest of the framework defaults to UTF-8 #33019
• Propagate context to message converters when streaming with Flux in Spring MVC #32813
• Resolve URI to baseUrl in RestClient #32679
• Constructor data binding support for List, Map and array arguments #32426
• Implement Eclipse Jetty core HTTP handler adapter #32097
• Add better control over generated files registration #31331
• Provide more declarative control over reflection hint registration #29194
• Replace @Nonnull(when = When.MAYBE) by @CheckForNull in @Nullable #27183
• Add JSON support to Protobuf codecs #25457

🐞 Bug Fixes

• AntPathPatternMatcher hardcoded "/" separator in variables matching and comparator #33085
• AOT generates a raw type for a generic type with nested unresolved generics #33069
• Unwrap Kotlin inline value classes return values #33026
• Kotlin Serialization support does not take null-safety into account #33016

📔 Documentation

• Move Testing below other framework concerns in the reference documentation TOC #33083
• Move Servlet HTTP Message Conversion to its own section #33063
• Document AssertJ support for MockMvc #32454

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to HtmlUnit 4.2.0 #33081
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.8.1 #33176
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.0-M1 #33170
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.0-M4 #33171

❤️ Contributors

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

@gregw, @stonio, and @tafjwr