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Changelog 6.0.0 (2025-12-12)

• spring-mock-mvc module now supports Spring 7.x
• spring-web-test-client now supports Spring 7.x
• Upgraded commons-lang3 from 3.18.0 to 3.19.0
• The spring modules now required Spring 5.3+ (previously 5.1 was required)
• New minimum Java baseline is now 17
• New minimum Groovy base is now 5.x
• Support for Jackson 3 object mapping
• Support for Yasson 3 object mapping
• Support for jakarta JsonB/Johnzon 3 object mapping
• Migrate json-path fully to Java, bypass GroovyShell for evaluation (#1844) (thanks to Michael Edgar for PR)
  • This fixed some nasty memory leaks when using JsonPath heavily in long running processes
• Stop resetting ResponseParserRegistrar during build (#1759, #1505, #1207 & #978) (thanks to Marc Easen for PR)
• Skip Null filters in FilterContextImpl (#1834) (thanks to Boyarshinov Alexander for PR)
• Upgraded Kotlin extension module to use Kotlin 2.2.21

• 0b3a0d9 [maven-release-plugin] prepare release rest-assured-6.0.0
• bd55281 [ci skip] Add exclusions for jackson3-example and spring7-mvc-webapp in pom.xml
• eb141e2 [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration
• 4c1a241 [maven-release-plugin] prepare release rest-assured-6.0.0
• 2f11520 Using newer version of dokka and using stdlib for kotlin instead of jdk8
• 6d9362c Ability to exclude osgi-tests in release
• 24380db Revert osgi-tests back to JUnit 4
• 9c12601 Upgraded Kotlin extension module to use Kotlin 2.2.21
• 4b1ff78 [ci skip] Prepare and perform release in single step
• 931f421 [ci skip] Removed explicit javadoc path workaround for JDK 8
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