v7.0.0-M7

⭐ New Features

• LocalDataSourceJobStore should re-initialize statically registered Quartz ConnectionProvider on context restart #35208
• Make rootObject parameter consistently nullable #35206
• Refine multipart converter registration in HttpMessageConverters #35203
• Introduce getSource() in ApplicationContextEvent with covariant return type #35197
• Introduce ContextRestartedEvent as a subtype of ContextStartedEvent #35194
• Align HttpMessageConverters builder with WebFlux codecs variants #35187
• Transaction-scoped resource binding in TransactionSynchronizationManager #35182
• Use flexible generics nullness in RestClient.RequestHeadersSpec.ExchangeFunction #35180
• Introduce ConfigurableApplicationContext.restart() method #35171
• Pause unused application contexts in the TestContext framework #35168
• Skip initialization of a NullBean #35165
• Short-circuit matching algorithm in InstanceFilter #35161
• Support direct matching against exceptions in ExceptionTypeFilter #35160
• InstanceFilter and ExceptionTypeFilter should set matchIfEmpty to true by default #35158
• Require explicit constraints in @Contract #35157
• Specify fetchSize/maxRows/queryTimeout per statement in JdbcClient #35155
• Include MethodParameter[] parameters in HttpRequestValues.Processor #35148
• Deprecate DaoSupport classes #35145
• Remove maxDuration/maxElapsedTime support from RetryPolicy #35144
• Introduce @ConcurrencyLimit annotation based on ConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor #35133
• Consistently implement toString() in BackOff strategies #35120
• Support API versioning for functional endpoints #35113
• Migrate orm.hibernate5 to orm.jpa.hibernate package for Hibernate ORM 7.0 #35111
• Redesign RetryPolicy to directly incorporate BackOff #35110
• Ability to limit list of supported API versions to explicitly configured ones for Spring MVC #35105
• Refine nullability of PropertyResolver.getProperty(key: String) extension #35104
• Support for exposing additional object types in SmartFactoryBean #35101
• Add missing @Nullable to MethodInvoker::setArguments parameter #35089
• Support @RequestBody in interface method when computing "consumes" condition #35086
• Consistent validation of supported API versions #35082
• Resolve optional HandlerMethod parameter of @ExceptionHandler method to null #35067
• Add ability to decorate HttpExchangeAdapter through HttpServiceProxyFactory #35059
• Introduce Builder API and factory methods for RetryPolicy #35058
• Revise RetryTemplate for alignment with Reactor (in preparation for @Retryable) #35057
• Add ApiVersionResolver based on parameter in media type #35050
• Support deprecation information in API versioning #35049
• Add support for configuring SslInfo in WebTestClient #35042
• Make built-in RetryPolicy implementations final #35040
• Specify flexible generics nullness in spring-jdbc #34911
• Allow usage of @CheckReturnValue on types and constructors #34910
• Support repeatable writes in FormHttpMessageConverter#writeMultipart #34859
• Convert applicable methods in Scope to default methods #34757
• Add public method to get bean order #34712
• Discard further rows once maxRows has been reached #34709
• Support DefaultWebFilterChain allowing the current filter to provide its name explicitly #34702
• API Versioning Support #34565
• Introduce @Retryable AOP support (based on core.retry and Reactor retry functionality) #34529
• Revisit converters and codecs default setup in HTTP stacks #33894
• ConfigurationBeanNameGenerator for @Bean-annotated methods #33448
• Qualified EntityManager/EntityManagerFactory injection (aligned with Jakarta Persistence 3.2) #33414
• Introduce JmsClient with customizable send/receive operations #32501
• Allow conditional handling of 404 with HTTP Interface clients #32105
• Allow to set TTL (and other QoS-related settings) on a per-message (and/or per-send) basis #26840

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Allow ordering of HttpMessageConverterss through WebMvcConfigurer.configureMessageConverters(HttpMessageConverters.Builder) #35177
• Content-Disposition response header duplicated for failed StreamingResponseBody #35116
• CachingMetadataReaderFactory does not cache all metadatareader calls #35112
• sslInfo() should return the builder for MockServerHttpRequest #35075
• HttpService group adapters could not be instantiated in a native image #35038

📔 Documentation

• Improve URLs in Validation chapter of the reference manual #35181
• Update Spring MVC message converters documentation #35166
• Add a note about Field/Method vs. TYPE_USE annotations in reference docs #35098
• Document intention of toString() in HandlerMethod #35055
• Add section in docs on byte-range requests in Spring MVC and WebFlux #35052

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jetty 12.1.0.beta1 #35084
• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.2.0 #34453
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.16.0-M1 #35170
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.0-M5 #35169

❤️ Contributors

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

@Allan-QLB, @NeatGuyCoding, @OlgaMaciaszek, @Pankraz76, @izeye, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @quaff, @remeio, @renatomameli, @scordio, and @wonyongg