🐞 Bug fixes

• JobOperator#stop can not stop JobExecution correctly in some cases #4064
• ClassCastException in RepositoryItemReader when using Slice instead of Page #4115
• Inconsistent state validation rules between RepositoryItemReader and RepositoryItemReaderBuilder #4276
• @StepScope not working when XML namespace activated #3936
• Incorrect handling of file deletion in File-based writers #4203

🚀 Enhancements

• Optimize ExitStatus#addExitDescription #3979
• High memory consumption during long running jobs #3790

📔 Documentation

• Fix minor example in job.adoc #4199
• Incorrect reference to AbstractJobTests in documentation #4182

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 5.3.25
• Spring Retry: 1.3.4
• Spring AMQP: 2.3.16
• Spring Data: 2.7.8
• Spring Integration: 5.5.16
• Spring Kafka: 2.9.6
• Spring LDAP: 2.4.1
• Micrometer: 1.9.8

❤️ Contributors

We would like to thank all contributors who helped in shipping this release!