On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.5 has been released to Maven Central repository. This patch release comes with a number of bug fixes, enhancements and dependency updates. You can find the complete change logs here: 4.3.5.

I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in this release!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone release of Spring Batch 5.0 is available now from https://repo.spring.io/milestone. This first milestone includes a number of major changes such as requiring Java 17+, migrating to Jakarta EE 9 APIs as well as upgrading our dependencies across the portfolio to major versions such as Spring Framework 6.0. For a complete list of changes, please check the change log.

We also took the opportunity of this major version to remove deprecated APIs and fix some issues that require non backward compatible changes. The migration guide contains more details about these changes and…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.2.8 and 4.3.4 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These patch releases come with a number of bug fixes and dependency updates. You can find the complete change logs here: 4.2.8 and 4.3.4.

I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in these releases!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.2.7 and 4.3.3 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These patch releases come with a number of bug fixes, improvements and dependency updates. You can find the complete change logs here: 4.2.7 and 4.3.3.

I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in these releases!

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I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.2 and 4.2.6 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These releases include a number of bug fixes and improvements. You can find the change logs here: 4.2.6 and 4.3.2.

I would like to thank all contributors who helped in making these releases possible!

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Introduction

Batch processing has been a challenging area of computer science since its inception in the early days of punch cards and magnetic tapes. Nowadays, the modern cloud computing era comes with a whole new set of challenges for how to develop and operate batch workload efficiently in a cloud environment. In this blog post, I introduce some of the challenges a batch developer or architect may face when designing and running batch applications at scale and show how Spring Batch, Spring Boot and Kubernetes can tremendously simplify this task.

Challenges of Designing and Running Batch…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.2.5 and 4.3.1 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These releases include a number of bug fixes and improvements. You can find the change logs here: 4.2.5 and 4.3.1.

I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in these releases!

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Dear Spring Batch community,

On behalf of the team and all contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Batch 4.3 is now generally available from Maven Central!

This release comes with a number of new features, enhancements, and dependency updates. You can find the complete list of changes in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

• Java records support
• GraalVM support
• New synchronized ItemStreamWriter
• New JpaCursorItemReader Implementation
• Performance improvements in MongoItemWriter and RepositoryItemWriter
• And more!

These features and enhancements have been…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-RC1 is now available from our milestone repository.

What’s New?

This release comes with a number of new features that you can find in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

1. GraalVM Support

A lot of work has already been done in Spring Framework to support running some types of Spring applications on GraalVM. In this release, we made changes in Spring Batch to correctly run Batch applications on GraalVM as well.

The support is still experimental, so we encourage you to give the release a try and share your feedback.

2. Java…

On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-M2 is now available from our milestone repository.

What’s new?

This release comes with a number of new features and enhancements that you can find in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

1. Kafka support enhancements

By default, the KafkaItemReader reads a topic from the beginning. When we initially introduced this reader in v4.2, it was not possible to configure it to read records from a custom offset. In this release, we added this feature. As a result of this addition, it is now possible to…