🐞 Bug fixes

• Incorrect value of kind attribute in spring-batch-3.0.xsd #1479
• KafkaItemWriter should wait for results of kafkaTemplate.sendDefault call #3773
• Incorrect usage of StringBuilder in TransactionAwareBufferedWriter #3745

🚀 Enhancements

• Provide constructors for injection #3819
• Jackson2ExecutionContextStringSerializer should trust result of Arrays.asList() by default #3830
• Add java.sql.Timestamp to trusted classes in Jackson2ExecutionContextStringSerializer #3855
• Added isXXXEnabled for logging statements #3814
• Better sizes for StringBuilder #3813
• Reduce the toCharArray overhead #3812

📔 Documentation

• Fix javadoc on ItemReadListener interface #3815
• Fix javadoc in ExitStatus #3811
• chunk-oriented-processing and completion-policy inconsistent with documentation #1629
• Regression in the "Configuring and Running a Job" section of the reference documentation #3848