⭐ New features

• Add support for local chunking #5021
• Add remote step execution support #5024
• Add shutdown hook to gracefully stop job executions on sigterm #5028
• Add support for Jackson 3 #4842
• Support SEDA with Spring Integration MessageChannels #4719
• Use existing ItemWriter with CompositeItemWriter expecting different item types #4735

🚀 Enhancements

• Missing comma in StepExecution#getSummary #5025
• Improve performance of DefaultFieldSet.indexOf() method #4930
• Improve MessageChannelPartitionHandler::receiveReplies #4776

🐞 Bug fixes

• Spring batch terminate in started status after sigterm #4023
• Jdbc Hibernate Connection closed prematurly when launching a Job #5006
• OptimisticLockingFailureException caused by jobExecutionDao.updateJobExecution(jobExecution) #5022
• Missing GraalVM native image hints for StepContext.getJobParameters() #5041
• StepBuilder(JobRepository) fails due to timing mismatch between constructor validation and BeanNameAware #5027
• RecursiveCollectionLineAggregator.aggregate() fails on empty collection input #5023
• Incorrect retrieval of last step execution with MongoDB #4896
• Fix potential NPE in JdbcJobExecutionDao #5044

📖 Documentation updates

• FaultTolerantStepBuilder#skipLimit Javadoc is misleading with custom skipPolicy #4963
• Fix grammar error in testing documentation #4979
• Improve javadoc of JobInstanceDao#getJobNames method #5043

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 7.0.0-RC1
• Spring Integration: 7.0.0-RC1
• Spring AMQP: 4.0.0-RC1
• Spring Kafka: 4.0.0-RC1
• Spring Data: 4.0.0-RC1
• Spring Ldap: 4.0.0-RC1
• Micrometer: 1.16.0-RC1

❤️ Contributors

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

Full change log: v6.0.0-M4...v6.0.0-RC1