⭐ New features

• Add ability to start reading from a custom offset in KafkaItemReader #737
• Add encoding parameter in StaxEventItemReader #807
• Add job name tag to spring.batch.job.active metric #3750
• Add getUniqueJobParametersBuilder() method in JobLauncherTestUtils #767
• Add JobParametersIncrementer implementation based on a DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer #1521

🐞 Bug fixes

• SimpleCompletionPolicy should have getChunkSize() method #3738

🚀 Enhancements

• Add connection parameter to AbstractCursorItemReader#cleanupOnClose #735
• BulkOperations API Implementation for Remove Operations in MongoItemWriter #3737
• StaxEventItemReader#isFragmentRootElementName method should be protected #1020
• Let FlatFileItemReader comment detection logic be customizable #1134

📔 Documentation

• Fix typo in spring-batch-intro.adoc #3755
• Updated spring-doc-resources version to 0.2.2

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3.0-M2
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2020.0.0-M2
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 5.4.0-M2
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 2.3.0-M2
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 2.6.0-M1