🐞 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!