📦 Dependency updates

• chore(deps): bump handlebars from 4.5.2 to 4.5.3 (#3495) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.diffplug.spotless from 8.7.0 to 8.8.0 (#3492) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 from 5.6.1 to 5.6.2 (#3491) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump gradle-wrapper from 9.6.0 to 9.6.1 (#3489) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump org.apache.httpcomponents.core5:httpcore5 from 5.4.2 to 5.4.3 (#3485) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.autonomousapps.build-health from 3.15.0 to 3.16.0 (#3486) @dependabot

✍ Other changes

• Premature entity definition metadata binding issue fix (#3493) @tomakehurst

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix standalone service descriptor merging (#3458) @Akshatsharma2205

📦 Dependency updates

• chore(deps): bump gradle-wrapper from 8.10 to 9.6.0 (#3479) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.diffplug.spotless from 8.6.0 to 8.7.0 (#3477) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump handlebars from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 (#3478) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.autonomousapps.build-health from 3.14.1 to 3.15.0 (#3467) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-bom from 5.3.2 to 5.4.0 (#3461) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump jetty from 12.1.8 to 12.1.10 (#3449) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.autonomousapps.build-health from 3.14.0 to 3.14.1 (#3448) @dependabot
• chore(deps): bump com.uber.nullaway:nullaway from 0.13.4 to 0.13.5 (#3455) @dependabot

✍ Other changes

• Switch to tag-based releases with version derived from tag (#3457) @tomakehurst
• Fix message channel bugs: routing, templating, required field validation (#3473) @tomakehurst
• Add deleteChannel to ChannelProviderDriver and wire through on removal (#3472) @tomakehurst
• Amend message trigger type hierarchy (#3471) @tomakehurst
• Message event log fixes (#3469) @tomakehurst
• Restore Exceptions.uncheck with type parameter to preserve backwards compatibility (#3468) @tomakehurst
• Make errorprone happy (#3460) @Mahoney
• Trim content-type header encoding part to allow for e.g. charsets with spaces appended (#3465) @tomakehurst
• Preserve recorded text response charset bytes (#3463) @king-407
• Prevent ContentTypeHeader throwing an exception when a non-permitted character appears in the charset (#3464) @tomakehurst
• Single message mapping admin APIs (#3462) @tomakehurst
• Add latest urltestdata.json (#3459) @Mahoney
• chore: Move errorprone into conventions plugin (#3453) @Mahoney
• Additional channel provider operations (#3456) @tomakehurst
• Simplify Exceptions.uncheck (#3454) @Mahoney

🐞 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