⭐ New Features

• Add support to customize transaction attributes #4195
• Add support to configure the transaction manager in SimpleJobOperator #1078
• Add support to configure the transaction manager in SimpleJobExplorer #1307
• Revisit the configuration of infrastructure beans with @EnableBatchProcessing #3942
• Add native-image support for AbstractJobRepositoryFactoryBean #4144
• Add native hints for Spring Batch #4187

🚀 Enhancements

• Can't wrap JobRepository in a tracing representation #3899
• Improve JobBuilder and StepBuilder APIs with regards to setting mandatory properties #4192
• Deprecate Job/Step builder factories #4188

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Incorrect transaction manager configuration in BatchConfigurer #4191
• Inconsistent transaction manager configuration between XML and Java config styles #4130

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M6
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M6
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-M6
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.0-M1
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-M5

Deprecations and API changes

• Deprecate JobBuilderFactory and StepBuilderFactory support #4188
• Removal of BatchConfigurer and DefaultBatchConfigurer #3942
• Removal of SimpleBatchConfiguration and ModularBatchConfiguration #3942

❤️ Contributors

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

Full Change log: 5.0.0-M5...5.0.0-M6