⭐ New features

• Allow Subclasses in the CompositeItemReader #4682

🐞 Bug fixes

• Wrong column types in JdbcStepExecutionDao #4648
• MongoStepExecutionDao returns an different stepExecution if a job has multiple steps spring-projects-experimental/spring-batch-experimental/issues/3

🚀 Enhancements

• Missing @FunctionalInterface in JobKeyGenerator #4613

📔 Documentation

• Missing documentation about MultiResourceItemWriter not creating empty files when no data goes through delegates #4645
• Typo in the documentation chapter Spring Batch Integration #4649

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.2.0-RC2
• Spring Retry: 2.0.10
• Micrometer: 1.14.0-RC1
• Spring Integration: 6.4.0-RC1
• Spring AMQP: 3.2.0-RC1
• Spring Kafka: 3.3.0-RC1
• Spring Data: 3.4.0-RC1
• Spring Ldap: 3.2.7

❤️ Contributors

Many thanks to all contributors who worked on this release!

Full change log: v5.2.0-M2...v5.2.0-RC1