⭐ New Features
- Add "forEachByte" variant to DataBuffer for efficient traversing #35623
 - Nested transaction support via savepoints is broken in HSQLDB database [followup] #35618
 - Improve exception handling in 
ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader#35631 - Add MySQL/MariaDB to TableMetaDataProviderFactory for correct generated-keys support #35593
 - Optimize state management in StompSubProtocolHandler #35591
 - ServletServerHttpRequest.getRemoteAddress() may perform DNS lookup #35589
 - Emit log message when multiple primary beans are detected #35550
 - Duplicate key error is mapped to 
TransientDataAccessExceptionbySQLStateSQLExceptionTranslatorforBatchUpdateException#35547 - Remove redundant object allocation in cglib proxy method calls #35543
 - Remove deprecation on 
CandidateComponentsIndexandCandidateComponentsIndexLoader#35472 - Processing response with no Content-Length header and no body raises EOFException #35361
 
🐞 Bug Fixes
- DefaultListableBeanFactory::getBeanNamesForType does not always return all bean names #35634
 - Consider defaultCandidate for scoped proxies #35627
 - Release data buffer in AbstractCharSequenceDecoder even when String creation fails #35625
 - PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver is not able to resolve file in SpringBoot Packaged JAR #35617
 - Prevent NoClassDefFoundError when Jetty Reactive HttpClient is not available #35608
 - Performance regression with Property Placeholder Resolution #35594
 - Retain order of 
producesmedia types in@ExceptionHandler#35587 - Nested transaction support via savepoints is broken in HSQLDB database #35564
 - SpEL expression parser uses more CPU after upgrade to 6.2.9 #35556
 - Thread race during FactoryBean instantiations starting with 6.2 due to lenient locks #35545
 - Update parsed path handling in UrlHandlerFilter #35538
 - ResourceHttpMessageWriter.write has unexpected error handling for invalid range requests (offset > content length) #35536
 AbstractTestNGSpringContextTestsis not thread-safe regarding tracked exceptions #35528- UrlHandlerFilter breaks RequestDispatcher.forward() on Tomcat #35509
 - AbstractMockHttpServletRequestBuilder#buildRequest is not idempotent #35493
 - Add support for 
JvmDefault(default in Kotlin 2.2.20+) #35487 - InstanceSupplierCodeGenerator fails to detect deprecated type on package private factory method #35486
 - Fix synchronization in ResponseBodyEmitter #35466
 - useCaches option in PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver not applied in special case #35465
 - Deadlock during context initialization due to EntityManager lock #35398
 
📔 Documentation
- Improve guidance in WebFlux on how to join inbound and outbound streams in 
WebSocketHandler#35572 - Fix 
idrefexample in reference manual #35560 - Fix URI Patterns docs in WebMVC and WebFlux Request Mapping #35551
 - Allow event listener method declared with multiple event classes to take a single parameter that is assignable from all of those event classes #35506
 - Improve Task Javadoc about Runnable wrapping #35394
 
🔨 Dependency Upgrades
❤️ Contributors
Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:
@Entea, @IMurzich, @hosea, @maziyarbahramian, @mlichtblau, @nstdio, @reckart, and @reda-alaoui