What’s New in Spring Framework 5.3.6 & 5.2.14? Full Feature & Fix Overview

One month ago we introduced Spring Framework 5.3.5; now Spring Framework 5.3.6 and 5.2.14 have been released.

Spring Framework 5.3.6

New Features

Ensure a file storage directory exists before using DefaultPartHttpMessageReader (issue #26790).

Make repackaging of Spring expressions easier for embedding in third‑party JARs (issue #26779).

Support the “Accept‑Patch” header in both MVC and WebFlux (issue #26759).

Fix IPv6 address handling caused by malformed X-Forwarded-For values (issue #26748).

Add awaitBodyOrNull to handle empty response bodies (issue #26731).

Prevent AbstractErrorWebExceptionHandler#htmlEscape() from being blocked in reactive contexts (issue #26712).

Improve documentation for testing streaming responses in Spring MVC (issue #26687).

Expose missing information for exceptions when request values are absent (issue #26679).

Bug Fixes

Add fallback mode to temporal parser in Spring 5.3.5 (issue #26777).

Fix path‑encoding issues with ResourceHttpRequestHandler when using PathPattern (issue #26775).

Correct daily scheduled tasks that skip March 28th (issue #26744).

Support UTF‑8 in DefaultPartHttpMessageReader (issue #26736).

Remove Linux‑incompatible java.nio.Path root‑path parsing (issue #26702).

Prevent @EnabledIf at class level from being ignored when the condition evaluates to false (issue #26694).

Fix MappeInterceptor not supporting all AntPatternMatcher patterns in 5.3 (issue #26690).

Correct BridgeMethodResolver#isBridgeMethodFor returning wrong results for Kotlin code (issue #26585).

Documentation Updates

Update reference for RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor registration (issue #26783).

Refresh documentation context for annotation configuration (issue #26782).

Fix Javadoc link syntax (issue #26776).

Spring Framework 5.2.14

New Features

Add missing nullable annotation to ResponseEntity.ok convenience method (issue #26614).

Support cookies with an Expires attribute but without Max‑Age in MockHttpServletResponse (issue #26559).

Bug Fixes

Do not apply DirtiesContext when class‑level @EnabledIf evaluates to false (issue #26697).

Fix StatusAssertion failures when used with custom status codes (issue #26666).

Ensure local

@CrossOrigin

maxAge

overrides the global value (issue #26620).

Correct auto‑growth array element handling (issue #26606).

Fix handling of “file:” paths on Windows when the file does not exist (issue #26589).

Allow ClassLoader.getResource to throw IllegalArgumentException where appropriate (issue #26588).

Prevent LoadTimeWeaver from weaving beans annotated with @Component (issue #26584).

Correct ResourceUrlProvider mapping set detection errors (issue #26562).

Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Reactor Core SR19 (issue #26768).