For consistency with AnnotationAsyncExecutionInterceptor (based on AnnotatedElementUtils.findMergedAnnotation) which is the main companion of AnnotationMatchingPointcut's checkInherited mode.

Issue: SPR-16933

Issue: SPR-16933

Issue: SPR-16933

Includes Java 8 getDeclaredAnnotation shortcut for lookup on Class.

Issue: SPR-17146

Issue: SPR-17147

Issue: SPR-17141

Issue: SPR-16363

The dependency to Apache Commons has been removed in https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/51252ebbcaa9e65aee83311aec25ca3c7c6d7d37#diff-95dc9d8756aa91afb2ac28454f1b634c, but the javadoc still mentions it.

Issue: SPR-17144

Issue: SPR-17145

Issue: SPR-16362

This commit allows to specify a custom CorsConfigurationSource
in AbstractHandlerMapping (both Servlet and Reactive variants).

AbstractHandlerMapping#getCorsConfigurations method is now
deprecated.

Issue: SPR-17067

Issue: SPR-17143

Issue: SPR-17141

Issue: SPR-17136

1. Update ExchangeFilterFunctions to delegate internally to
HttpHeaders.setBasicAuth(user, password).

2. Remove deprecation from
ExchangeFilterFunctions.basicAuthentication(String user, String password)
It is still useful as a filter to insert the header.

3. Update deprecation notes.

Issue: SPR-17099

Issue: SPR-17074

Issue: SPR-16933

Issue: SPR-17131

Issue: SPR-17126

Issue: SPR-16398

Issue: SPR-17126

Includes pre-sizing of LinkedHashSet for conversion from array.

Issue: SPR-17123
Issue: SPR-17074

Issue: SPR-15404