🐞 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!