I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 5.0.0-M6 is now available from our milestone repository and that 4.3.7 is available from Maven Central. Version 4.3.7 is a patch release that can be used as a drop-in replacement for 4.3.6. You can find its release notes here. This blog post is more about the new milestone release, version 5.0.0-M6. In this milestone, we focused on improving the configuration process of Spring Batch to make it more flexible and straightforward. This blog post walks through the major changes in this area of the framework and presents the new features introduced in this…
I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 5.0.0-M5 is now available from our milestone repository. The main theme of this milestone is improving testing support in Spring Batch. This post walks through the major changes in this area as well as other changes introduced in this milestone release. For the complete list of changes, see the release notes. Test utilities configuration updates Up to version 4.3, the JobLauncherTestUtils used to autowire the job under test with the goal of facilitating the test setup. But what if multiple jobs are defined in the test context? And what if no Job beans…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 5.0.0-M4 is now available from our milestone repository. This fourth milestone introduces several improvements for Java Records support. It also comes with a number of enhancements, bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation updates. For more details about all the changes, see the release notes. Java Records Support Improvement The support for Java records as items in a chunk-oriented step was initially introduced in v4.3, but that support was limited, due to the fact that v4 has Java 8 as…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.6 has been released to Maven Central and that Spring Batch 5.0.0-M3 is now available from our milestone repository. Spring Batch 4.3.6 is a patch release that comes with a number of bug fixes, enhancements, and dependency updates. For more details about the changes, see the change log. This blog post is more about 5.0.0-M3, which comes with three major features: Native support improvements UTF-8 by default New Maven Bill of Materials Moreover, this milestone release comes with a number of…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 5.0.0-M2 is now available from our milestone repository. This second milestone comes with two major features: Introduction of the new Observation API from Micrometer 2.0 which gives you both metrics and tracing for your batch jobs! Addition of SAP HANA as a supported database for the job repository Moreover, this release comes with a number of enhancements and dependencies updates. For more details about all the changes, please check the change log. I would like to thank all contributors who had…
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! Spring Batch Home | Source on Github | Reference Documentation
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…
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! Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation
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! Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation
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! Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation
