• Log warning when default context configuration is ignored within test class hierarchies #36390
• Ignore flush calls on ServletServerHttpResponse body outputstream #36385

• Leverage ResourceHandlerUtils in ScriptTemplateView #36458
• Restore ScriptTemplateViewTests #36456
• Fix log message in ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader #36453
• DefaultResponseErrorHandler - setMessageConverters() not called via RestClient #36434
• Resolve context initializers only once in AbstractTestContextBootstrapper #36430
• Invoke resolveContextLoader() only once in AbstractTestContextBootstrapper #36425
• Further align synthesized annotation toString() with modern JDKs #36417
• Introduce setDefaultCharset() in AbstractResourceBasedMessageSource #36413
• Support for JPA 4.0 flush mode "explicit" #36401
• Support application-wide defaultHtmlEscape setting in WebFlux RequestContext #36400
• Support Predicate<RequestPath>> in path API version resolver #36398
• Avoid duplicate flushes in HttpMessageConverter implementations #36383
• Add support for non-flushing OutputStream to StreamUtils #36382
• Make it easier to get InputStream from RestClient #36380
• RuntimeHintsWriter should comply with reachability-metadata-schema-v1.2.0.json #36379
• Make it easier to create custom HttpExchangeAdapter #36374
• Improve ResourceHttpMessageConverter target type support #36368
• org.springframework.test.web.servlet.assertj.AbstractHttpServletResponseAssert#headers case sensitivity #36349
• Allow registering serialized lambda metadata through RuntimeHints #36339
• Refactor calculateHashCode in RequestMappingInfo #36325

• MetadataReader misses enclosing class name for Kotlin nested classes with Java 24+ #36451
• Guard against invalid id/event values in Server Sent Events #36440
• Component scanning fails against non-loadable annotation type with enum array on Java 25 #36432
• Duplicate ServletServerHttpRequest headers #36418
• Incomplete debug message in ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader #36410
• Inconsistent ApplicationEventMulticaster state after removing ApplicationListener implemented by FactoryBean #36404
• Propagate max frame length to WebSocket session #36370
• Graceful shutdown of SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor #36362
• Duplicate response headers with ResponseEntity<Mono<T>> (or Kotlin suspend function) controller method #36357
• HttpServiceProxyFactory returns LinkedHashMap instead of target type for method with generic return type #36326
• HttpMediaTypeException thrown when calculating compatible media types #36300

• Document FullyQualifiedConfigurationBeanNameGenerator in Javadoc and reference docs #36455
• Document @Fallback alongside Primary in the reference manual and @Bean Javadoc #36439
• Fix links to UriComponentsBuilder and polish examples #36403
• Emphasize @Configuration classes over XML and Groovy in testing chapter #36393
• Document tips to avoid issues with ignored default context configuration in tests #36392
• Polish SpEL operator examples in reference docs #36367
• Add programmatic configuration tabs in the transactional refdoc #36323
• Document registration recommendations for BeanPostProcessor and BeanFactoryPostProcessor #34964

• Upgrade to JUnit 6.0.3 #36389
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.16.4 #36444
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0.4 #36443

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

@AgilAghamirzayev, @aavoronin93, @cetf9h, @froggy0m0, @gbouwen, @husseinvr97, @jisub-dev, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @siom79, and @xxxxxxjun

• Leverage ResourceHandlerUtils in ScriptTemplateView #36459
• Restore ScriptTemplateViewTests #36457
• Fix log message in ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader #36454
• Resolve context initializers only once in AbstractTestContextBootstrapper #36431
• Exclude legacy @javax.validation.Constraint from convention-based annotation attribute override check #36412
• Optimize MediaType(MediaType, Charset) constructor #36351
• Optimize the addition of a charset to the MediaType in AbstractHttpMessageConverter #36350
• Consistent adaptation of HTTP headers on Servlet responses #36345
• Improve performance of validation groups determination in WebFlux #36337
• Detect all common size exceptions from Tomcat and Commons FileUpload 2.x #36324

• Guard against invalid id/event values in Server Sent Events #36442
• Incomplete debug message in ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader #36411
• Inconsistent ApplicationEventMulticaster state after removing ApplicationListener implemented by FactoryBean #36405
• Graceful shutdown of SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor #36384
• HttpMediaTypeException thrown when calculating compatible media types #36363
• ResolvableType#getGenerics() breaks serialization #36347
• Multipart upload leak on client abort (ByteBuf.release() not called) #36327

• Document @Fallback alongside Primary in the reference manual and @Bean Javadoc #36441
• Document registration recommendations for BeanPostProcessor and BeanFactoryPostProcessor #36436
• Fix links to UriComponentsBuilder and polish examples #36406
• Emphasize @Configuration classes over XML and Groovy in testing chapter #36394
• Polish SpEL operator examples in reference docs #36375

• Upgrade to JUnit 5.14.3 #36388
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.15.10 #36446
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.16 #36445

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/compare/7.21.0-rc.23...7.21.0-rc.24

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/compare/7.21.0-rc.22...7.21.0-rc.23

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/compare/7.21.0-rc.21...7.21.0-rc.22

• 874358a: [dotnet][rb][java][js][py] Automated Browser Version Update (#17200) (Selenium CI Bot) #17200
• 85bc60c: [grid] Align Router-Node read timeout with session pageLoad capability (#17211) (Viet Nguyen Duc) #17211
• 1dc4a61: [py] Do not close externally provided log_output streams (#17204) (Jitendra Singh2) #17204
• 51be94c: [dotnet] [bidi] Keep events deserialization at transport layer (#17212) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17212
• d7b436a: [dotnet] [bidi] Parallel event handlers (#17213) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17213
• 1173aee: [java] specify nullability in other java packages (#17194) (Andrei Solntsev) #17194

• build(deps): bump joda-time:joda-time from 2.14.0 to 2.14.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/pull/5328
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 4.32.5 to 4.32.6 in the github-actions group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/pull/5329
• build(deps-dev): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 in the maven-plugins group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/pull/5327

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/compare/7.21.0-rc.20...7.21.0-rc.21

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/compare/7.21.0-rc.19...7.21.0-rc.20

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/compare/7.21.0-rc.18...7.21.0-rc.19

• #27996 - Test profile config properties can bleed into other test profiles
• #28033 - io.quarkus.smallrye.graphql.deployment.ConcurrentAuthTest fails on MacOS M1
• #40918 - ConnectionBase logs NULL messages even with FINE log level
• #48289 - Custom Quarkus Test Class orderer not respected
• #49668 - Customize OIDC discovery endpoint address
• #50087 - Kafka Dev Service Loading on Different Docker Network
• #50177 - Panache 2 / Hibernate processor : make sure implementing PanacheRepository sets the primary entity even for custom repos
• #50178 - Panache 2 / Hibernate Processor : Make sure JD annotations work even without @Repository.
• #50179 - Panache 2 : Make CrudRepository equivalents for stateful and HR
• #50180 - Panache 2 / Hibernate Processor: make sure the JD annotations can be used in place of the ORM equivalents
• #50563 - OutOfMemoryException: Metaspace in quarkus-smallrye-openapi-deployment tests
• #51585 - Assign module names and descriptors to core components
• #51934 - Docs curate outcome build item
• #51949 - Dev ui config properties - show file location of application.properties
• #52218 - Add Chinese (Simplified) localization for Dev UI
• #52308 - Polish NettyRecorder
• #52354 - Setting the quarkus.test.class-orderer property would break tests
• #52368 - Quarkus main with future defaults all not working with GraalVM master
• #52404 - Align Config usage with the new Test ClassLoading strategy
• #52410 - Micrometer - Prometheus: throw an exception if meter registration fails
• #52425 - Panache Next: tests and changes after upstream fixes in hibernate-processor
• #52448 - Register for reflection classes loaded with class loader parameter
• #52492 - Panache Next: naming a repository ManagedBlocking results in duplicate accessor method
• #52513 - build(deps): bump org.mvnpm:type-fest from 5.4.3 to 5.4.4
• #52532 - Prefer the profile-aware test class orderer in error message
• #52546 - Quarkus OIDC can send concurrent refresh token requests for the same session
• #52551 - Do not use a two-layer stack of JUnit test orderers
• #52564 - build(deps): bump com.gradle:develocity-maven-extension from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4
• #52575 - Do not use System Properties to set test profile configuration
• #52592 - Enhance documentation of AdditionalApplicationArchiveBuildItem
• #52651 - Relax quarkus-oidc requirement that UserInfo endpoint must be available for OAuth2 login to succeed
• #52653 - Add Marco to be notified of LRA labels
• #52657 - build(deps): bump org.jetbrains:annotations from 26.0.2 to 26.1.0
• #52658 - build(deps): bump org.mvnpm:marked from 17.0.1 to 17.0.3
• #52661 - Remove jboss-parent from Dependabot
• #52671 - docs: DeployCommandActionResultBuildItem
• #52680 - Adjust our messaging in README.md
• #52692 - Remove pointless settings from Hibernate-related integration tests + use dev services in a few more integration tests
• #52694 - Allow to customize OIDC discovery path
• #52697 - build(deps): bump com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt from 10.7 to 10.8
• #52698 - build(deps): bump com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-common-protos from 2.65.1 to 2.66.0
• #52707 - Add grpc encoding tests; grpc-accept-encoding usage
• #52715 - Prep changes for loading Maven POM 4.1
• #52716 - quarkus-maven-plugin does not attach a main artifact, causing maven-install-plugin and maven-deploy-plugin to fail
• #52719 - Do not enforce UserInfo for OAuth2 if user prefers not to
• #52760 - Move more of REST Client to Gizmo2
• #52762 - build(deps): bump org.mvnpm:markdown-it from 14.1.0 to 14.1.1
• #52771 - docs: ConsoleFormatterBannerBuildItem
• #52781 - Remove guard preventing test from running on Mac
• #52782 - Fix null message on connection exception
• #52788 - Be more careful with allocations in SyntheticComponentsUtil
• #52792 - Allow CORS origin header to return * when specifically configured
• #52807 - Add integration test for Avro schemas with enum references
• #52809 - unable to run kafka IT with jib and dev service
• #52810 - Align Mongo Client registration, discovery and retrieval
• #52819 - build(deps): bump com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations from 2.47.0 to 2.48.0
• #52825 - build(deps): bump org.yaml:snakeyaml from 2.5 to 2.6
• #52829 - Include component tests in orderer
• #52845 - DevMode test with ValueRegistry
• #52862 - Throw exception on Prometheus meter registration failure
• #52864 - Dev UI: Show file location for application.properties config sources
• #52866 - Avoid a possible race condition in WorkspaceLoader
• #52871 - Allow CORS origin header to return * when specifically configured
• #52875 - Make sure static init logging is initialized early
• #52876 - Fix tests that rely on rendered log text
• #52877 - build(deps): bump org.checkerframework:checker-qual from 3.53.1 to 3.54.0
• #52881 - ArC: fix test that asserts on formatted log message
• #52884 - Remove unused references to Gizmo 1
• #52886 - Fix raw type usage in bytecode recorder
• #52887 - Deprecate ObjectLoader
• #52891 - Silence warning about using deprecated ObjectLoader
• #52895 - Adjust filter of log messages to capture the listening port
• #52900 - Fix test to work even if there is module name or CL name
• #52907 - Bump module-services-plugin to 1.3
• #52910 - build(deps): bump com.gradle.plugin-publish from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 in /devtools/gradle
• #52911 - Add PathTree.getResourceNames()
• #52918 - Dev UI Cosmetic changes
• #52922 - Use getParent() instead of shadowing the parent field
• #52926 - Bump kubernetes-client-bom from 7.5.2 to 7.6.1
• #52929 - build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0
• #52930 - build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-shade-plugin from 3.6.1 to 3.6.2
• #52936 - Revert "Bump rest-assured from 5.5.6 to 6.0.0, load Groovy parent-first"
• #52938 - [Docs]: Review Deploy to Openshift guide and update for Java 25
• #52939 - OIDC: avoid some concurrent token refresh requests for the same session
• #52944 - ArC - Reduce allocations for injection points
• #52956 - Update default masked headers for rest client log
• #52959 - Fix Gradle 9.4 test failures by inlining warm-up build and removing test ordering
• #52990 - Review of the TLS reference guide
• #52997 - OOM fix for Dev UI
• #53007 - Reintroduce QuarkusClassLoader#parent()
• #53016 - Move network creation from IntegrationTestUtil into the DevServicesProcessor build step
• #53019 - Re-enable injection of config from previous dev services to dependencies (regression fix)
• #53021 - build(deps): bump io.smallrye.common:smallrye-common-bom from 2.16.0 to 2.17.0