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Remove MatchableHandlerMapping

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Since Jul 30, 2026.

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Description

HandlerMappingIntrospector was created for Spring Security, which stopped using it in 7.0, and therefore its removal in #36481 was not expected to have any impact. However, it appears 3rd party code such as Spring Data REST may have a compile dependency on the related MatchableHandlerMapping interface. We can bring that back temporarily to extend the deprecation period. This issue is for its eventual removal

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