added XmlAwareFormHttpMessageConverter, taking over the 3.0.2-introduced XML multipart support (avoiding a package cycle)

registerDependentBean resolves to the canonical bean name in order to handle alias references (SPR-7254)

added "expose-proxy" attribute to aop namespace (enforcing AopContext proxy exposure with CGLIB; SPR-7261)

added "expose-proxy" attribute to aop namespace (enforcing AopContext proxy exposure with CGLIB; SPR-7261)

fixed JSP ErrorsTag to avoid invalid "*.errors" id, using form object name as id prefix instead (SPR-7258)

fixed registerResolvableDependency mechanism to correctly handle non-serializable factory objects (SPR-7264)

Added a test to prove that @Qualifier works in conjunction with @Bean methods after some confusion by users that it may not.

CronTrigger defensively protects itself against accidental re-fires if a task runs too early (SPR-7004)

added limit for parsed SQL cache to NamedParameterJdbcTemplate (SPR-7237); added configurable cache limit to CachingMetadataReaderFactory

ConversionService is able to apply Converters to interface-based array elements (SPR-7150); a context ConversionService is able to override an ApplicationContext's resource editors (SPR-7079)

@Transactional qualifier value matches against @Qualifier annotations on @Bean methods as well (SPR-7232)

ScheduledTaskRegistrar (as used for @Scheduled processing) properly shuts down its default executor (SPR-6901)

parse default elements if they live in the default namespace or if their parent is from another namespace (SPR-7218)

refined BeanDefinitionParserDelegate to only parse default elements if they actually live in the default namespace (SPR-7218)