v5.0.0-M8

⭐ 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

❤️ Contributors

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

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Full Change log: 5.0.0-M7...5.0.0-M8

v5.0.0-M7

⭐ New Features

• Parameter types improvement #2122
• Support Java 8 Dates for Job Parameters #1035

🚀 Enhancements

• Revisit the default behaviour of job parameters conversion #3960

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M6
• 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-M6

📔 Documentation

• Fix minor example in job.adoc #4199
• Incorrect reference to SimpleJdbcTemplate in reference documentation #4197
• Improve documentation of scoped beans definition #1502

Deprecations and API changes

• Remove ParameterType enumeration #3960
• Deprecate JobParameters#toProperties #3960
• Deprecate JobParametersBuilder#addParameter #3960
• The method JobParameter#getType now returns T instead of Object

❤️ Contributors

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Full Change log: 5.0.0-M6...5.0.0-M7

v4.3.7

🐞 Bug fixes

• Unable to register an annotation-based StepExecutionListener in a fault-tolerant step #4137
• Unable to read XML data without spring-tx in the classpath #4132
• Add missing initialized flag set to FlowJob #4142
• Fix non-nullable columns in MySQL migration for Spring Batch 4.3 #4145

🚀 Enhancements

• Declare dependency on jettison as optional #4196

📔 Documentation

• Improve documentation of scoped beans definition #1502
• Incorrect reference to SimpleJdbcTemplate in reference documentation #4197

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 5.3.23
• Spring Retry: 1.3.3
• Spring AMQP: 2.3.16
• Spring Data: 2.5.12
• Spring Integration: 5.5.15
• Spring Kafka: 2.7.14
• Spring LDAP: 2.3.8.RELEASE
• Micrometer: 1.8.10

❤️ Contributors

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

v5.0.0-M6

⭐ New Features

• Add support to customize transaction attributes #4195
• Add support to configure the transaction manager in SimpleJobOperator #1078
• Add support to configure the transaction manager in SimpleJobExplorer #1307
• Revisit the configuration of infrastructure beans with @EnableBatchProcessing #3942
• Add native-image support for AbstractJobRepositoryFactoryBean #4144
• Add native hints for Spring Batch #4187

🚀 Enhancements

• Can't wrap JobRepository in a tracing representation #3899
• Improve JobBuilder and StepBuilder APIs with regards to setting mandatory properties #4192
• Deprecate Job/Step builder factories #4188

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Incorrect transaction manager configuration in BatchConfigurer #4191
• Inconsistent transaction manager configuration between XML and Java config styles #4130

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M6
• 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-M5

Deprecations and API changes

• Deprecate JobBuilderFactory and StepBuilderFactory support #4188
• Removal of BatchConfigurer and DefaultBatchConfigurer #3942
• Removal of SimpleBatchConfiguration and ModularBatchConfiguration #3942

❤️ Contributors

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Full Change log: 5.0.0-M5...5.0.0-M6

v5.0.0-M5

🚀 Enhancements

• Migrate tests to JUnit Jupiter #4166
• Remove the dependency to JUnit in AssertFile #4112

🐞 Bug Fixes

• JobRepositoryTestUtils should work against the JobRepository interface #4070
• The test datasource should not be autowired in JobRepositoryTestUtils #4178
• The job under test should not be autowired in JobLauncherTestUtils #1237
• RepositoryItemReader#setRepository is broken in 5.0.0-M4 #4164
• Fix non-nullable columns in MySQL migration for Spring Batch 4.3 #4145

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-M4
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.1.2.Final

📔 Documentation

• Update reference documentation to use the Spring Asciidoctor Backend #3865

Deprecations and API changes

• Deprecate Hibernate support #4150
• Deprecate AssertFile #4181
• Use the Chunk API consistently #3954

❤️ Contributors

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

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Full Changelog: 5.0.0-M4...5.0.0-M5

v5.0.0-M4

⭐ New Features

• Add FunctionalInterface annotation where appropriate #4107
• Add FieldExtractor implementation for Java records #4159
• Configure the right FieldExtractor based on the type of items in FlatFileItemWriterBuilder #4161
• Configure the right FieldSetMapper based on the type of items in FlatFileItemReaderBuilder #4160
• Change transaction manager type to JdbcTransactionManager in default batch configuration #4126

🚀 Enhancements

• Replace deprecated IntegrationFlows #4155
• Rename SimpleJobLauncher to TaskExecutorJobLauncher #4123
• Reduce use of deprecated APIs #4120

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Unable to build the project without an internet connection #4152
• Add missing initialized flag set to FlowJob #4142
• Unable to register an annotation-based StepExecutionListener in a fault-tolerant step #4137
• Fix tests catching nested exceptions #4136
• Unable to read XML data without spring-tx in the classpath #4132
• Maven surefire uses wrong provider for Spring Batch Core #4121
• Lost transactionAttribute when using chaining StepBuilder #3686
• ItemReadListener not being correctly registered after adding a StepExecutionListener #773
• Cannot subclass final class com.sun.proxy.$Proxy202 #793
• StepBuilderFactory Only Supports Listener Annotations, Not Listener Interfaces #1098

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-M3
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.1.1.Final

📔 Documentation

• Add package-info.java to integration #4141
• Editing pass #4163
• Javadoc editing #4158
• Improve Javadocs #4129

❤️ Contributors

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

• @Buzzardo
• @jonatan-ivanov
• @hpoettker
• @acktsap

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Full Changelog: 5.0.0-M3...5.0.0-M4

v5.0.0-M3

⭐ Features

• Create Maven BOM for Spring Batch modules #1097
• Allow Lambdas to be passed as item processors in Java DSL #4061
• Best to distinguish CreateTime and StartTime in StepExecution #4049
• Make charset configurable in JdbcExecutionContextDao #795

🚀 Enhancements

• Add @Nullable where appropriate in JobExecution and StepExecution #4077
• Change default encoding to UTF-8 in JdbcExecutionContextDao #3983
• Add java.util.UUID to the trusted classes list in Jackson2ExecutionContextStringSerializer #4110
• AbstractFileItemWriter should support java.nio #756
• Make JUnit4 dependency optional in spring-batch-test #4033

🐞 Bug fixes

• FixedLengthTokenizer wrong tokenization with UTF-8 extended characters #3714
• Inconsistent default encoding in FlatFileItemReader and FlatFileItemWriter #1154
• StaxEventItemWriter.unclosedHeaderCallbackElements prevents new job execution #4044
• Circular reference error when autowiring JobBuilderFactory #3991
• NPE when creating MongoItemReader using a builder without specifying sorting #4082

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-M2

📔 Documentation

• Incorrect documentation in "4.6.6 Abort a job" section #4037
• Editing pass for Javdocs #4096 #4090
• Editing pass for reference docs #4083
• Fix Javadoc of SpringBatchTest annotation #4102

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all contributors who helped in making this release possible!

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Full Changelog: 5.0.0-M2...5.0.0-M3

v4.3.6

🐞 Bug fixes

• Incorrect job restart with null parameters of type long/double #4087
• SqlSyntaxErrorException when creating table BATCH_JOB_EXECUTION with db2 v9 #4001
• StaxEventItemWriter.unclosedHeaderCallbackElements prevents new job execution #4044
• NPE when creating MongoItemReader using a builder without specifying sorting #4082

🚀 Enhancements

• Add @Nullable where appropriate in JobExecution and StepExecution #4077
• Add java.util.UUID to the trusted classes list in Jackson2ExecutionContextStringSerializer #4110

📔 Documentation

• Incorrect documentation in "4.6.6 Abort a job" section #4037
• Fix Javadoc of SpringBatchTest annotation #4102
• Wrong size for BATCH_JOB_INSTANCE.JOB_KEY in Appendix A #4071

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 5.3.20
• Spring Retry: 1.3.3
• Spring AMQP: 2.3.16
• Spring Data: 2.5.11
• Spring Integration: 5.5.12
• Spring Kafka: 2.7.14
• Spring LDAP: 2.3.8.RELEASE
• Micrometer: 1.7.12

❤️ Contributors

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

v5.0.0-M2

⭐ Features

• Add Micrometer Observation API usage #4065
• Integrate SAP Hana as supported Spring Batch database #1087

🚀 Enhancements

• Rename schema-oracle10g to schema-oracle #1057
• Constructors with var args/Lists #686
• Remove benign [WARNINGS] from batch build #4066
• MongoItemReader#setSort check its argument #4014
• Collection's empty data check using CollectionUtils.isEmpty #4021
• Add @Nullable to StepExecution::endTime #4034
• Remove SQLLite Batch database tables before starting tests #4063

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M2
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M2
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Micrometer 2.0.0-M2

📔 Documentation

• Added missing docs for batch.core and batch.core.configuration packages #4068
• Wrong size for BATCH_JOB_INSTANCE.JOB_KEY in Appendix A #4071
• Fix typos in documentation #4010
• Fix Javadoc of FaultTolerantChunkProvider #4029

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all contributors who helped in making this release possible!

v4.3.5

🐞 Bug fixes

• Adjust h2 schema to work with v2.0.x #4043
• Adjust H2PagingQueryProvider to work with v2.x #4047

🚀 Enhancements

• Simplify GET_LAST_STEP_EXECUTION #3997
• Make countStepExecutions access batch_job_execution only once #3876
• Add @Nullable to StepExecution::endTime #4034
• Collection's empty data check using CollectionUtils.isEmpty #4021
• Check arguments of MongoItemReader#setSort #4014

📔 Documentation

• Add example for in-memory repository, with no deprecated classes #4016
• Document default types of beans registered by EnableBatchProcessing annotation #3993
• Fix Javadoc of FaultTolerantChunkProvider #4029
• Fix typos in documentation #4010