Upgraded to Hessian 4.0.7; deprecated Burlap support
Fixed javadoc build on JDK 8 (deactivating the super-strict doclint checks)
Temporarily deactivated DetectSplitPackagesPlugin due to failure on JDK 8 on CI server
Fixed annotation attribute processing for enum arrays

Based on https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-framework/pull/263
Allow for reuse of key visitor classes in tooling

Based on https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-framework/pull/263
Removed unnecessary CGLIB 2.2 dependency from spring-test-mvc module
Removed references to deprecated queryForInt method from documentation

Issue: SPR-10257
Fixed typo in code example

Issue: SPR-10394
Added "getName()" accessor to MethodReference

Issue: SPR-10422
Link to JIRA change log instead of local changelog.txt file
Prepared for JDK 1.9

Aiming for the JdkVersion class to support one generation ahead now, in order for the test suite to properly detect 1.7/1.8+ JVMs even when running against a JDK 1.9 preview at some point.
Upgraded to Jackson 1.9 (raising minimum to 1.8+) and 2.2
Added note on non-thread-safety of Jackson's DateFormat support
Removed deprecated helper classes and methods (that have been deprecated since 3.0 or before)
Removed support for deprecated registerSharedEditor mechanism
Removed UriTemplate's unused encodeUri template method
Polished UriComponents implementation
Polishing
Replaced shared editor usage with PropertyEditorRegistrar
Added "postProcessConfiguration" template method to LocalValidatorFactoryBean