:lady_beetle: Bug fixes

• Starting a flow with Flow#next makes the first step execute twice #4432
• DefaultJobParametersExtractor no longer copies keys from JobParameters when not contained in ExecutionContext #4458
• job scope bean doesn't cleanup in unit test #1288
• NullPointerException in RepeatTemplate#doHandle() when unwrapIfRethrown() returns null if logging in DEBUG #1123

:rocket: Enhancements

• Inaccurate exception message in SimpleJobRepository #4025
• Remove unnecessary expressions in AsyncItemWriter #4009

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Documentation unclear on how to replace deprecated AbstractTaskletStepBuilder#throttleLimit #4389
• Outdated Meta-data ERD #4358
• Incorrect JavaDoc for Methods returning JobFlowBuilder in JobBuilder #4415
• Incorrect Javadoc in DefaultFieldSet and DefaultFieldSetFactory #4494
• Update documentation about serializable keys in the execution context #4457

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.0.14
• Spring Retry: 2.0.4
• Spring AMQP: 3.0.10
• Spring Data: 3.0.12
• Spring Integration: 6.0.9
• Spring Kafka: 3.0.13
• Spring LDAP: 3.0.6
• Micrometer: 1.10.13

:heart: Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release!

Full change log: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/compare/v5.0.3...v5.0.4