The spring version 2.5 used in core is very old and this makes it problematic when trying to integrate jenkins with another component, or integrating components within jenkins as most things have moved way passed 2.5 to 4.x.
Note - this may also require an upgrade of groovy.
- is related to
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JENKINS-21249 Update Groovy
- Resolved
- relates to
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JENKINS-49555 Split most of Spring Framework out of core
- Resolved