Embedded datasources now get their bean ids set as database name to allow multiple databases of the same type in parallel. Refactored tests a little and made BeanDefinitionParser package private to align with the other ones. Adapted changelog accordingly.

DefaultMessageListenerContainer's skips no-message-received commit on Tibco (avoiding a deadlock; SPR-7558)

getTestExecutionListeners() returns actual List which allows for iteration as well as modification (SPR-7595)

DispatcherPortlet's default resource serving explicitly prevents access to WEB-INF and META-INF (SPR-7540)

fixed ApplicationContext event processing for repeated invocations to non-singleton listener beans (SPR-7563)

revised "ClassUtils.isAssignable" semantics to cover primitives vs wrappers in both directions (SPR-7610)

* documented that @Async can't be used in conjunction with lifecycle callbacks such as @PostConstruct
* provide sample for workaround
* added semantic markup for code

The shutdown mechanism for in-memory databases has changed since 10.6. We now have to trigger 'drop' instead of 'shutdown'. Besides that we can skip purging the database manually in newer versions.

AspectJExpressionPointcut uses bean ClassLoader for initializing the AspectJ pointcut parser (SPR-7570)

AnnotationSessionFactoryBean's "postProcessConfiguration" is non-final now (because of Hibernate 3.6; SPR-7581)

+ change jpa Maven dependency from provided to compile

Minor correction to doc updates made as part of SPR-7545 - "cache-period" attribute was incorrectly documented as "cache-seconds".

- Relocate and fix typos in interface-based @RequestMapping tip (SPR-7537)
- Fix typos in constructor-arg 'name' disambiguation section (SPR-7443)
- Polish whitespace in DefaultServletHttpRequestHandler (SPR-7553)

If you want to reference parameters by name in XML
configuration you can also use @ConstructorProperties
to name the parameters in the class.

Added documentation on constructor argument 
disambiguation by using the argument names.

changed the access of the "reconcileColumnsToUse" and "reconcileParameters" methods to protected (SPR-7556)

Extended documentation to include hints on what to 
consider when working with proxied controllers.
Explained the necessity of moving @RequestMapping
annotations to the interface or use proxy-target-
class="true".

DispatcherPortlet throws custom NoHandlerFoundException instead of misleading UnavailableException (SPR-7542)

SPR-7545 - Reference documentation now reflects the final state of the ResourceHttpRequestHandler and references the DefaultServletHttpRequestHandler properly.

When using PropertiesLoaderSupport implementations (principally
PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer), an assumption was made that any
Resource representing a set of properties must be file-based.  SPR-7547
exposed the fact that if a non-file-based Resource implementation such
as ByteArrayResource were passed in, an IllegalStateException would be thrown
from the AbstractResource base class' implementation of getFilename().

This is now patched, and PropertiesLoaderSupport implementations treat
Resource implementations equally, regardless of file-orientation.

See also SPR-7552.