* 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