⭐ New features

• Add support for observability with the Java Flight Recorder #4972
• Add ability to externally stop any kind of step #4965
• Revisit the concurrency model #4955
• Make Job interface a functional interface #4966
• Make Step interface a functional interface #4976
• Add StepExecution parameter to StoppableTasklet.stop() #4703

🚀 Enhancements

• Make JobRegistry optional in the default batch configuration #4971
• Make transaction manager optional in JobOperatorFactoryBean #4970
• Make transaction manager optional in Tasklet and Chunk-Oriented steps #4974

🐞 Bug fixes

• Incorrect step execution id generation in ResourcelessJobRepository #4975
• Conflicting info in @AfterChunk/@BeforeChunk annotation javadoc to current implementation #4961
• RecordFieldSetMapper fails with Record without components #4900

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 7.0.0-M9
• Spring Integration: 7.0.0-M3
• Spring AMQP: 4.0.0-M5
• Spring Kafka: 4.0.0-M5
• Spring Data: 4.0.0-M6
• Spring Ldap: 4.0.0-M3
• Micrometer: 1.16.0-M3

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release!

Full change log: v6.0.0-M2...v6.0.0-M3