🚀 Enhancements

• Migrate tests to JUnit Jupiter #4166
• Remove the dependency to JUnit in AssertFile #4112

🐞 Bug Fixes

• JobRepositoryTestUtils should work against the JobRepository interface #4070
• The test datasource should not be autowired in JobRepositoryTestUtils #4178
• The job under test should not be autowired in JobLauncherTestUtils #1237
• RepositoryItemReader#setRepository is broken in 5.0.0-M4 #4164
• Fix non-nullable columns in MySQL migration for Spring Batch 4.3 #4145

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-M4
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.1.2.Final

📔 Documentation

• Update reference documentation to use the Spring Asciidoctor Backend #3865

Deprecations and API changes

• Deprecate Hibernate support #4150
• Deprecate AssertFile #4181
• Use the Chunk API consistently #3954

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

Full Changelog: 5.0.0-M4...5.0.0-M5