⭐ New Features

• Add Spring Batch version in the execution context #4215

🚀 Enhancements

• Update MySQL Connector/J and use new Maven coordinates #4211

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix link to spring-batch.xsd in spring.schemas 05f6d13

Deprecations and API changes

• Remove support for Gemfire #4214
• Change setter name for isolationLevelForCreate in AbstractJobRepositoryFactoryBean #4213

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC1
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-RC1
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-RC1
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-RC1
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-RC1
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.0-RC2
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-RC1

❤️ Contributors

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

Full Change log: 5.0.0-M8...5.0.0-RC1