⭐ New features

• Add support for annotation based JobExecutionListener in the JobBuilder #817
• Set proxyBeanMethods to false on ModularBatchConfiguration and SimpleBatchConfiguration #3715
• Add setter for standalone attribute in StaxEventItemWriter #758
• Add support to use Java 14 records as items #3693
• Add JpaCursorItemReader implementation #901

🐞 Bug fixes

• Unable to set partitionOffsets in KafkaItemReaderBuilder #3761

⚠️ Deprecations

• Deprecate JobExecution#stop() #1605
• Deprecate MultiResourceItemReader#getCurrentResource #3776
• Deprecate AbstractNeo4jItemReader #3777
• Deprecate org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.Alignment enum #3778
• Deprecate org.springframework.batch.item.xml.StaxUtils #3779
• Deprecate the Map-based JobRepository/JobExplorer implementations #3780
• Deprecate ScheduledJobParametersFactory #3781

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3.0-RC1
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2020.0.0-RC1
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 5.4.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 2.3.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 2.6.1