🐞 Bug Fixes

• HttpComponents5Connection should not reply on response headers to determine if the response is gzipped #1755

📔 Documentation

• Add documentation of Shibboleth repository requirement to reference docs #1776
• Examples in the reference documentation for WSS4J refer to an outdated package #1774
• XwsSecurityInterceptor examples should be dropped from reference documentation #1772

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jakarta XML Bind 4.0.5 #1800
• Upgrade to JAXB 4.0.7 #1799
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.6 #1795
• Upgrade to Spring Security 7.0.4 #1796

🐞 Bug Fixes

• HttpComponents5Connection should not reply on response headers to determine if the response is gzipped #1754

📔 Documentation

• Examples in the reference documentation for WSS4J refer to an outdated package #1773
• Add documentation of Shibboleth repository requirement to reference docs #1771
• XwsSecurityInterceptor examples should be dropped from reference documentation #1359

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jakarta XML Bind 4.0.5 #1798
• Upgrade to JAXB 4.0.7 #1797
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.17 #1783
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.5.9 #1785
• Upgrade to WSS4J 4.0.1 #1784

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.15 #1747
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.4.13 #1748

Full release notes for Spring WS 5.0 are available on the wiki.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SoapBody declares that the Locale is mandatory where it is optional in SOAP 1.1 #1744
• XPathExpression and XPathObeservation have invalid nullability declarations #1727

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.0 #1728
• Upgrade to Spring Security 7.0.0 #1730
• Upgrade to WSS4J 4.0.1 #1739

⭐ New Features

• Raise the minimum supported version of JUnit to 6.0 #1676

🐞 Bug Fixes

• WebServiceMessageCallback is not invoked when payload is null #1668

📔 Documentation

• XML invalid in CustomSoapExceptionResolver example #1672
• Harmonize links to 'Spring Framework reference documentation' #1666

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jakarta Activation 2.1.4 #1710
• Upgrade to Jakarta Mail 2.1.5 #1713
• Upgrade to Jakarta XML Bind 4.0.4 #1714
• Upgrade to JAXB 4.0.6 #1719
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.0-RC1 #1680
• Upgrade to Spring Security 7.0.0-RC1 #1681

🐞 Bug Fixes

• WebServiceMessageCallback is not invoked when payload is null #1667

📔 Documentation

• XML invalid in CustomSoapExceptionResolver example #1671
• Harmonize links to 'Spring Framework reference documentation' #1665

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jakarta Activation 2.1.4 #1699
• Upgrade to Jakarta Mail 2.1.5 #1701
• Upgrade to Jakarta XML Bind 4.0.4 #1702
• Upgrade to JAXB 4.0.6 #1704
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.12 #1678
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.5.6 #1679

🐞 Bug Fixes

• The default version of Spring Security is no longer supported #1685
• The default version of Spring Framework is no longer supported #1684
• WebServiceMessageCallback is not invoked when payload is null #1653

📔 Documentation

• XML invalid in CustomSoapExceptionResolver example #1669
• Harmonize links to 'Spring Framework reference documentation' #1663

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jakarta Activation 2.1.4 #1691
• Upgrade to Jakarta Mail 2.1.5 #1693
• Upgrade to Jakarta XML Bind 4.0.4 #1694
• Upgrade to JAXB 4.0.6 #1697
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.12 #1683
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.4.12 #1686

⭐ New Features

• Stop support for Apache WSS4J 2 & 3 #1598
• Add Nullability support #1562
• Rename org.springframework.ws.test.support.matcher.xmlunit2 now that support for XmlUnit 1 has been removed #1561
• Remove functionality that has been deprecated for removal in 5.0.0 #1560

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SimpleXsdSchema#loadSchema is not thread-safe #1573

📔 Documentation

• Document Null Safety Support in Reference Documentation #1662

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jakarta Annotation 3.0.0 #1644
• Upgrade to Jakarta Servlet 6.1.0 #1648
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.0-M7 #1552
• Upgrade to Spring Security 7.0.0-M1 #1559

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.9 #1631
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.5.2 #1654

❤️ Contributors

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

@mhalbritter

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SimpleXsdSchema#loadSchema is not thread-safe #1556

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Apache Santario 3.0.6 #1604
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.21 #1617
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.3.10 #1618
• Upgrade to XmlUnit 2.10.2 #1591
• Upgrade to Xom 1.3.9 #1603

❤️ Contributors

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

@nosan