v7.0.0-RC2

⭐ New Features

• Early support for Jakarta Servlet 6.2 and Jakarta Activation 2.2 #35670
• Prevent compilation error with WebTestClient without Hamcrest #35666
• Derive StatelessSession from transactional Session on Hibernate 7.2 #35664
• Consistent support for JPA 3.2 transaction timeouts #35663
• Add support for EntityManagerFactory bootstrapping from JPA 3.2 PersistenceConfiguration #35662

🐞 Bug Fixes

• JdkClientHttpRequestFactory does not clean response headers when decompressing #35668
• Make HttpStatus.resolve return non-deprecated one #35659
• Reflection hints missing for SpringPersistenceUnitInfo.setPersistenceProviderPackageName #35655
• Fix @Import with multiple bean registrars #35653

📔 Documentation

• Declare Servlet mock classes with Servlet 6.1 baseline #35671
• Fix code snippets in Javadoc for exchangeSuccessfully() #35642
• Improve RestTemplate to RestClient migration guide #35620

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Downgrade JSONassert to 1.5.x #34901
• Fix Jetty multipart client support with Java 25 #35531
• Upgrade to Jackson 3.0.1 #35677

❤️ Contributors

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

@donalmurtagh, @kamilkrzywanski, @malczuuu, @vpavic, and @wakingrufus