v7.0.0-M5

⭐ New Features

• Deprecate PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and PreferencesPlaceholderConfigurer for removal #34880
• Add Consumer based variant methods to HttpRequestValues builder #34870
• Add defaultApiVersion to RestClient and WebClient builders #34857
• Evaluate system properties in default HttpClient in ReactorClientHttpRequestFactory #34850
• Use beanClassLoader in the HTTP Service Registrar #34846
• Deprecate JUnit 4 support in the Spring TestContext Framework #34794
• Ability to validate supported API versions only against explicitly configured ones #34775
• Revisit Jackson support #33798

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ClassFileAnnotationMetadata.fromTypeDescriptor(…) fails on Java 24 #34882
• Align ClassFileClassMetadata with other implementations #34869
• Incorrect filtering of groups with HttpServiceGroupConfigurer #34867
• Aggregated Javadoc no longer published since 7.0.0-M4 #34774

📔 Documentation

• Add Reference Documentation for API Versioning #34569

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.1.21 #34900
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.15.0 #34888
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.0-M3 #34897

❤️ Contributors

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

@dmitrysulman, @philwebb, and @siom79