⭐ New Features

• Improve testability of SystemCommandTasklet #3955
• String array command with SystemCommandTasklet #752

🚀 Enhancements

• Change DefaultExecutionContextSerializer to produce Base64 #4122
• Revisit the default configuration of ExecutionContextSerializer with EnableBatchProcessing #4140

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC1
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M6
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-M6
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.0-M1
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-RC1

Deprecations and API changes

• Deprecate throttle limit in favour of using similar features in TaskExecutor implementations #2218

:heart: Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

Full Change log: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/compare/5.0.0-M7...5.0.0-M8