v7.0.0-M4

⭐ New Features

• Make BeanDefinitionPropertyValueCodeGeneratorDelegates public #34761
• Add AOT support for Registry of HTTP Interface Proxies #34750
• Make HttpServiceGroupConfigurer extend Ordered. #34739
• Introduce queryParamCount() in MockRestRequestMatchers #34703
• Add method level callback for HttpRequestValues initialization #34699
• Refine UriUtils#decode and StringUtils#uriDecode implementation and documentation #34673
• Add visibility and return type to SimpleMethodMetadata toString #34649
• Revise RepeatableContainers API to better guide developers #34637
• Extract AnnotatedElementAdapter to public type #34628
• Add support for ImportAware in BeanRegistrar #34627
• Introduce Stream variant methods for SqlQuery #34623
• Generate compiled SpEL expressions using Java 17 byte code level #34602
• Allow adding bean name aliases in the programmatic bean registration DSL #34599
• Support API Versioning in Tests #34568
• Support API Versioning on the Client Side #34567
• Propagate CoroutineContext to the CoExchangeFilterFunction #34555
• Introduce OptionalToObjectConverter #34544
• Create Registry for HTTP Interface Proxies with Extensible Registration DSL #33992
• Reconsider log level for final methods on CGLIB proxy classes #33939
• Enforce Servlet 6.1 and WebSocket 2.2 baselines #33918
• Consider ClassFile API for reading class metadata from bytecode #33616
• Give JdbcClient access to ConversionService for converting custom database object types #33467
• Consider not rejecting preflight requests when no CORS configuration is provided #31839

📔 Documentation

• Turn "CDS" documentation into a "JVM AOT cache" one #34700
• Document that attribute is optional in @⁠AliasFor for overrides with the same name #34641
• Reinstate links to JUnit 5 Javadoc APIs #27497

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.24 #34752
• Upgrade to Gson 2.13.0 #34772
• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.1.20 #34632
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.15.0-RC1 #34771
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.0-M2 #34770

❤️ Contributors

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

@OlgaMaciaszek, @Tussle0410, @dmitrysulman, @kilink, and @quaff