Closes gh-26793

See gh-26785

Closes gh-26785

See gh-26775

See gh-26767

See gh-26702

Closes gh-26702

Closes gh-26767

See gh-26775

Closes gh-26775

Closes gh-26708

The support for fallback parsing patterns in @DateTimeFormat introduced
in gh-20292 introduced a regression in that the original cause of the
parsing exception was no longer retained.

This commit ensures that the original DateTimeParseException is set as
the cause for any newly created DateTimeParseException, thereby
retaining the original exception as the root cause.

Closes gh-26777

Some operating systems delete temp files not just when booting up, but
also during operation. This commit makes sure that the
DefaultPartHttpMessageReader recreates the directory used to store
files in, if it's not there.

Closes gh-26790

This commit allows the spring-expression module to be more easily repackaged
for embedding in third-party JARs -- for example, via the Shadow Gradle plugin.

Closes gh-26779

The RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor is no longer automatically
registered via XML namespace elements.

Closes gh-26783

See gh-26782

* pr/26781:
  Update to Gradle Enterprise Gradle Plugin 3.6.1

Closes gh-26781

See gh-26781

Closes gh-26782

This commit introduces support in both servlet and webflux for the
"Accept-Patch" header, which is sent when the client sends unsupported
data in PATCH requests.
See  section 2.2 of RFC 5789.

Closes gh-26759

This commit introduces support in both servlet and webflux for the
"Accept-Patch" header in OPTIONS requests, as defined in section 3.1 of
RFC 5789.

See gh-26759

* pr/26776:
  Update copyright year of changed file
  Fix javadoc link syntax

Closes gh-26776

See gh-26776

See gh-26776

Avoid DNS resolution.

See gh-26748

See gh-26767

Closes gh-26748

* pr/26755:
  Add since to WebClient.ResponseSpec.awaitBodyOrNull()

Closes gh-26755

See gh-26755

Such variant is already provided for ClientResponse but not
for WebClient.ResponseSpec.

Closes gh-26731

This commit adds support for Kotlin non-nullable type which resolves
to primitive Java types in BridgeMethodResolver#findBridgedMethod.

Closes gh-26585

See gh-26746

See gh-26746

Closes gh-26744

This commit fixes an issue with CronExpression when used in combination
with ZonedDateTime and daylight saving time.

Closes gh-26744

This commit changes the encoding used to parse multipart headers from
ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, in accordance with RFC 7578.

Closes gh-26736

See gh-26679