Not requesting a change more a concern regarding this patch release.
Following commit https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/f22e2ac578f6db8f988cbbee0af5f381a86fdd04 Changed MockHttpServletRequest to utilize HttpServletMapping internally.
HttpServletMapping is an interface provided by the latest servlet-api - javax.servlet-api:4.+
Our projects auto import patch releases, thus with the 5.3.4 release any project utilizing the MockHttpServletRequest resolved in a failed master build as the dependency to the latest servlet-api is not something we've imported as an explicit dependency.
Find it strange that this would be released as a patch version and not part of a minor.
Comment From: sbrannen
Closing as a duplicate of #26555
Comment From: sbrannen
Find it strange that this would be released as a patch version and not part of a minor.
It was indeed a bit unconventional to include the binary dependency on Servlet 4 APIs in the point release, but the Servlet API mocks have actually been based on Servlet 4 since Spring Framework 5.0.
Comment From: sbrannen
Please note that the hard dependency on Servlet 4 in spring-test will be reverted in Spring Framework 5.3.5.
For details, see https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/26555#issuecomment-781992923.