⭐ Features

• Create Maven BOM for Spring Batch modules #1097
• Allow Lambdas to be passed as item processors in Java DSL #4061
• Best to distinguish CreateTime and StartTime in StepExecution #4049
• Make charset configurable in JdbcExecutionContextDao #795

🚀 Enhancements

• Add @Nullable where appropriate in JobExecution and StepExecution #4077
• Change default encoding to UTF-8 in JdbcExecutionContextDao #3983
• Add java.util.UUID to the trusted classes list in Jackson2ExecutionContextStringSerializer #4110
• AbstractFileItemWriter should support java.nio #756
• Make JUnit4 dependency optional in spring-batch-test #4033

🐞 Bug fixes

• FixedLengthTokenizer wrong tokenization with UTF-8 extended characters #3714
• Inconsistent default encoding in FlatFileItemReader and FlatFileItemWriter #1154
• StaxEventItemWriter.unclosedHeaderCallbackElements prevents new job execution #4044
• Circular reference error when autowiring JobBuilderFactory #3991
• NPE when creating MongoItemReader using a builder without specifying sorting #4082

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-M2

📔 Documentation

• Incorrect documentation in "4.6.6 Abort a job" section #4037
• Editing pass for Javdocs #4096 #4090
• Editing pass for reference docs #4083
• Fix Javadoc of SpringBatchTest annotation #4102

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all contributors who helped in making this release possible!

Full Changelog: 5.0.0-M2...5.0.0-M3