🐞 Bug fixes

• fix: Prevent exception when `LoggedRequest` is constructed from an entity that cannot be decompressed (#3447) @tomakehurst
• fix: Prevent response body templating being attempted when no template expressions are present (#3447) @tomakehurst
• fix: Exception thrown when a templated content-type header is present in a response definition (#3447) @tomakehurst

👻 Maintenance

• Release workflow now triggers docs version bump and wiremock-docker release @tomakehurst

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.35...4.0.0-beta.36

🚀 New Features

• feat: Unified `Entity` / `EntityDefinition` / `EntityResolver` body abstraction for HTTP stubs, webhooks and messages (#3428) @tomakehurst
• feat: Add `Entity` body getter to `Request` interface (#3434) @tomakehurst
• feat: Switch webhooks to use `EntityDefinition`, allowing file paths, JSON and binary bodies (#3432) @tomakehurst
• feat: Fixed message channel handling (#3440) @tomakehurst
• feat: Breaking change reporting via japicmp on `@PublishedAPI`-annotated classes (#3427) @tomakehurst

🔒 API Deprecations

• Deprecate `Body` in favour of `Entity` (#3433) @tomakehurst

📦 Dependency updates

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.34...4.0.0-beta.35

🐞 Bug fixes

• fix: Include all operands in `AbstractLogicalMatcher` equals/hashCode (#3400) @rnagulapalle
• fix: Standalone JAR startup regression — stop relocating joptsimple in shadow JAR (#3408) @tomakehurst

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.33...4.0.0-beta.34

🚀 New Features

• feat: Use Bouncycastle to generate HTTPS certificates (#3354) @Malandril
• feat: Recorder serve event transformer — allows transforming stubs during recording (#3403) @tomakehurst
• feat: `LoggedRequest` and `LoggedResponse` constructor parameters now immutable (#3405) @tomakehurst

📦 Dependency updates

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.32...4.0.0-beta.33

👻 Maintenance

• Remove need for breaking-change `MappingsSaver.mutate`; return removed stubs from delete operations (#3383) @Mahoney

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.31...4.0.0-beta.32

🐞 Bug fixes

• fix: Improve consistency of stub modification — persist before updating in-memory store (#3379) @Mahoney

📦 Dependency updates

• chore(deps): bump jetty from 12.1.7 to 12.1.8 (#3380) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.networknt:json-schema-validator to 2.0.1 (#3344) @pedroboado
• chore(deps): bump com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom (#3372) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.diffplug.spotless (#3369) @dependabot

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.30...4.0.0-beta.31

🚀 New Features

• feat: `jsonPath` helper now writes extracted arrays as JSON instead of toString (#3330) @picimako
• feat: Add batch methods to `StubLifecycleListener` (#3351) @RafeArnold

🐞 Bug fixes

• fix: Prepend `http://` to proxy URIs appropriately (#3352) @RafeArnold
• fix: Improve proxy URL error message and handling (#3338) @RafeArnold
• fix: Stop deleting ignored stubs on import @RafeArnold

📦 Dependency updates

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.29...4.0.0-beta.30

🚀 New Features

• Add `fromProxy` flag to `LoggedResponse` (#3329) @RafeArnold

👻 Maintenance

• Improve wiremock-url performance (#3323) @Mahoney
• Null-mark `GlobalSettings` with jspecify (#3322) @RafeArnold

📦 Dependency updates

• chore(deps): bump jetty from 12.1.5 to 12.1.6 (#3324) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump org.apache.httpcomponents.core5:httpcore5 (#3328) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.uber.nullaway:nullaway (#3313) @dependabot

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.28...4.0.0-beta.29

🐞 Bug fixes

• fix: Improve and fix percent encoding logic in wiremock-url (#3321) @Mahoney
• fix: `Authority.of()` should not produce authorities with empty ports (#3318) @Mahoney
• fix: Make `Uri` → `java.net.URI` conversion less confusing (#3316) @Mahoney
• fix: Handle surrogate pairs in percent encoding (#3321) @Mahoney

📦 Dependency updates

• chore(deps): bump net.ltgt.errorprone (#3320) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.diffplug.spotless (#3315) @dependabot

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.27...4.0.0-beta.28

🚀 New Features

• URL improvements: use typed URL in proxy renderer, add common Path transformations, improve builders (#3314) @Mahoney

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.26...4.0.0-beta.27