💡 Improvements

• Allow finding links in embedded documents for HalLinkDiscoverer #2385
• AOT preparations need to consider Jackson 3 packages #2382
• Avoid reflection in IanaLinkRelations #2381

🪲 Bugs

• Add explicit proxying metadata for DummyInvocationUtils #2384

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.2.21 #2389
• Upgrade to Logback 1.5.20 #2388
• Upgrade to Jackson 3.0.1 #2387
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 RC3 #2386

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Plugin 4.0 RC1 #2379
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 RC1 #2375
• Upgrade to Reactor 2025.0 RC1 #2374
• Upgrade to AssertJ 3.27.6 #2373
• Upgrade to Mockk 1.14.6 #2372
• Upgrade to Lombok 1.18.42 #2371
• Upgrade to Logback 1.5.19 #2370
• Upgrade to JUnit 6.0.0 #2369
• Upgrade to Jackson 3.0.0 #2368

⭐ New Features

• Upgrade to Jackson 3 #2357

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Jackson 3.0 RC9 #2365
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 M9 #2364
• Upgrade Reactor to 2024.0.10 #2363
• Upgrade Lombok to 1.18.40 #2362
• Upgrade Kotlin to 2.2.20 #2361

⭐ New Features

• Remove all deprecations declared until 2.0 #2335
• Remove deprecated VndErrors support #2334

💡 Improvements

• Improve logical comparability of Link instances #2336
• Move to jSpecify for nullability checks #2332
• Disable single-template HAL FORMS defaulting #2331

🪲 Bugs

• HalConfiguration changed order of (default) mediatypes #2333
• Code in section 6.1.1 of the reference guide does not compile #2330

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.2.10 #2356
• Update to Spring Framework 7.0 M8 #2355
• Update to Jackson 2.20 RC1 #2354
• Upgrade to Jackson 2.19.2 #2353
• Upgrade to Reactor 2024.0.9 #2352
• Upgrade to Mockk 1.14.5 #2351
• Upgrade to JUnit 5.13.4 #2350
• Upgrade to AssertJ 3.27.4 #2349
• Upgrade to Kotlin 2.2 #2343

❤️ Contributors

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

@freeftr and @greg-at-moderne

🪲 Bugs

• Code in section 6.1.1 of the reference guide does not compile #2338
• HalConfiguration changed order of (default) mediatypes #2337

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.8 #2340
• Upgrade Reactor to 2024.0.7 #2339

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 M5 #2329
• Upgrade Kotlin to 2.1.21 #2328
• Upgrade Reactor to 2024.0.6 #2324
• Upgrade Mockk to 1.14.2 #2323
• Upgrade Jackson to 2.19.0 #2322

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.7 #2325
• Upgrade Reactor to 2024.0.6 #2321
• Upgrade Mockk to 1.14.2 #2320
• Upgrade Jackson to 2.19.0 #2319

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade Kotlin to 2.1.20 #2317
• Upgrade JUnit to 5.12.2 #2316
• Upgrade Kotlin Koroutines to 1.10.2 #2315
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 M4 #2314
• Upgrade to Spring Plugin 4.0 M1 #2303
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 M2 #2302
• Upgrade Mockk to 1.13.16 #2295
• Upgrade Logback to 1.5.16 #2294
• Upgrade JUnit to 5.12.0-M1 #2292

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade Slf4j to 2.0.17 #2312
• Upgrade Lombok to 1.18.38 #2311
• Upgrade Jackson to 2.18.3 #2310
• Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.6 #2309
• Upgrade Reactor to 2024.0.5 #2308
• Upgrade Mockk to 1.14.0 #2307
• Upgrade Logback to 1.5.18 #2306

💡 Improvements

• application/hal+json is used, but it's non-standard #2276

🪲 Bugs

• Disabling Jacksons auto-detection mode breaks rendering of HalFormsOptions #2257

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.3 #2299
• Upgrade Reactor to 2024.0.3 #2298
• Upgrade AssertJ to 3.27.3 #2297
• Upgrade Reactor to 2024.0.2 #2287
• Upgrade Jackson to 2.18.2 #2286
• Upgrade Logback to 1.5.16 #2284
• Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.2 #2283
• Upgrade Mockk to 1.13.16 #2282
• Upgrade JUnit to 5.11.4 #2281