⭐ New Features

• Parameter types improvement #2122
• Support Java 8 Dates for Job Parameters #1035

🚀 Enhancements

• Revisit the default behaviour of job parameters conversion #3960

🔨 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-M6

📔 Documentation

• Fix minor example in job.adoc #4199
• Incorrect reference to SimpleJdbcTemplate in reference documentation #4197
• Improve documentation of scoped beans definition #1502

Deprecations and API changes

• Remove ParameterType enumeration #3960
• Deprecate JobParameters#toProperties #3960
• Deprecate JobParametersBuilder#addParameter #3960
• The method JobParameter#getType now returns T instead of Object

❤️ Contributors

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

Full Change log: 5.0.0-M6...5.0.0-M7