Important❗: This is the last OSS release of Spring Batch 4. Please refer to the support policy page for more details about our support policy.

🐞 Bug fixes

• NullPointerException in RepeatTemplate#doHandle() when unwrapIfRethrown() returns null if logging in DEBUG #1123
• Job scoped bean doesn't cleanup in unit test #1288

📔 Documentation

• Update documentation about serializable keys in the execution context #4457
• Incorrect JavaDoc for Methods returning JobFlowBuilder in JobBuilder #4415
• Incorrect Javadoc in DefaultFieldSet and DefaultFieldSetFactory #4494
• Regression with the CSS styles and JS toggle in the reference documentation of 4.3.x #4437

🔨 Tasks

• Upgrade to gradle 6.9.4
• Switch to spring-asciidoctor-backends for documentation

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 5.3.31
• Spring Retry: 1.3.4
• Spring AMQP: 2.3.16
• Spring Data: 2.7.18
• Spring Integration: 5.5.20
• Spring Kafka: 2.9.13
• Spring LDAP: 2.4.1
• Micrometer: 1.9.17

❤️ Contributors

We would like to thank all contributors who helped in shipping this release!