⭐ New features

• Use contextual lambdas to configure batch artefacts #4818
• Add support for delete operations in MongoDB DAOs #5060

🚀 Enhancements

• Improve performance of JdbcStepExecutionDao::getLastStepExecution #4798
• Optimize step executions counting in MongoStepExecutionDao #5061
• Change configuration log level to debug #5055
• Remove unused id from persistence domain object #5054

🐞 Bug fixes

• JsonObjectReader fails to read JSON array format due to Jackson 3.0 FAIL_ON_TRAILING_TOKENS default change #5047
• ChunkOrientedStep: Unnecessary ItemReader.read() calls when chunk size exceeds item count #5048
• JobParameter constructor validates wrong parameter (value instead of name) #5049
• Incorrect error message in JobOperatorTestUtils constructor #5051
• ChunkOrientedStepBuilder throws IllegalArgumentException when retry() is used(configured) without retryLimit() #5068
• ChunkOrientedStepBuilder throws IllegalArgumentException when skip() is used(configured) without skipLimit() #5069
• MongoJobExecutionDao doesn't handle temporal job parameter types correctly #5063
• Incorrect Step status in StepExecutionListener#afterStep #4362
• Cannot deserialize TopicPartition from JobRepository #3797
• Incorrect restart behaviour with no identifying job parameters #4755
• Incorrect ordering when retrieving job executions with JobExecutionDao #5062
• Errors are not propagated from job execution #808

📖 Documentation updates

• Include Javadocs as part of Antora docs

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 7.0.0-RC3
• Spring Integration: 7.0.0-RC2
• Spring Data: 4.0.0-RC2

❤️ Contributors

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

Full change log: v6.0.0-RC1...v6.0.0-RC2