The internal caching of the LdapUserProvider had a major design issue and has therefore been reimplemented. It is now based on Caffeine Cache. The reimplementation implied some changes of the public API:

The following methods do not declare (and throw) checked exceptions any longer, but throw wrapping RuntimeExceptions instead. If you have overridden these methods in a custom UserProvider, please change the signatures accordingly.

The following methods have no invalidate argument any longer, because the LdapUserProvider does no longer cache at this level. If you use these methods in a custom UserProvider, delete the argument from the invocation. If you have overridden these methods, assume that invalidate is always true , and adjust the signature and implementation accordingly.

(CMS-17737)