v6.0.0-RC4

⭐ New Features

• Introduce DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer for SQL Server sequences #29447
• Introduce findAllAnnotationsOnBean variant on ListableBeanFactory #29446
• Introduce support for Jakarta WebSocket 2.1 #29436
• Allow @ControllerAdvice in WebFlux to handle exceptions before a handler is selected #22991

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Bean with unresolved generics do not use fallback algorithms with AOT #29454
• TomcatRequestUpgradeStrategy is not compatible with Tomcat 10.1 #29434
• Autowiring of a generic type produced by a factory bean fails after AOT processing #29385

📔 Documentation

• Reference PDF containing full docs not available #28451

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Revisit Servlet API baseline: Servlet 6.0 in the build, Servlet 5.0 compatibility at runtime #29435
• Upgrade to Context Propagation 1.0.0 #29442
• Upgrade to Jackson 2.14.0 #29351
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0 #29441

❤️ Contributors

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

@divcon, @fmbenhassine, @imkulwant, @izeye, and @wilkinsona