v5.1.3

Heads-up: ❗This is the last OSS release of the 5.1.x line ❗Please check the support page.

⭐ New features

• Add DatabaseType POSTGRES for the product name EnterpriseDB #4627

🚀 Enhancements

• Bad performance of GET_LAST_STEP_EXECUTION query on DB2 with large STEP_EXECUTION table #4657
• Missing @FunctionalInterface in JobKeyGenerator #4613

🐞 Bug fixes

• Different behavior when interrupting a job, depending on the parallel flow order #3939
• MongoPagingItemReader never reset page number #1086
• Job restart after stop fails #1287
• Wrong column types in JdbcStepExecutionDao #4648

📔 Documentation

• Grammatical error in restart.adoc #4600
• Typo in architecture doc #4607
• Typo in the documentation chapter Spring Batch Integration #4649
• Missing documentation about MultiResourceItemWriter not creating empty files when no data goes through delegates #4645
• Missing note about not scoping Step beans with Job scope #3900
• Unclear documentation about wildcard usage to select input files #4707
• Regression in Javadoc deployment path with 5.1.2 #4604

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.1.16
• Spring Retry: 2.0.11
• Micrometer: 1.12.12
• Spring Integration: 6.2.11
• Spring AMQP: 3.1.8
• Spring Kafka: 3.1.10
• Spring Data: 3.2.12
• Spring Ldap: 3.2.9

❤️ Contributors

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

v5.2.1

🐞 Bug fixes

• JobExecution#getJobExecution(@Nullable Long executionId) returns null when using MongoDB as JobExplorer #4722
• Different behavior when interrupting a job, depending on the parallel flow order #3939
• MongoPagingItemReader never reset page number #1086
• DerbyPagingQueryProvider remaining pages query is not correct #1253
• Job restart after stop fails #1287

🚀 Enhancements

• Update DerbyPagingQueryProvider for Derby 10.7 and above #1673

📔 Documentation

• Missing note about not scoping Step beans with Job scope #3900
• Repeating 'the the' exists #4615
• Unclear documentation about wildcard usage to select input files #4707
• Incorrect class name and grammatical error in docs whats-new #4720
• Fix link section #4696
• Error in Migration guide #4695
• Incorrect link and closing tag for listeners in documentation #4610

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.2.1
• Spring Retry: 2.0.11
• Micrometer: 1.14.2
• Spring Integration: 6.4.1
• Spring AMQP: 3.2.1
• Spring Kafka: 3.3.1
• Spring Data: 3.4.1
• Spring Ldap: 3.2.9

🔨 Tasks

• Deprecate SqlWindowingPagingQueryProvider #4733

❤️ Contributors

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

@Seungpang, @Solodye, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @uli-f, and @xeounxzxu

v5.2.0

⭐ New features

• Add support for MongoDB as JobRepository #877
• Introduce a resourceless job repository implementation #4679
• Add adapters for Java functional interfaces #4672
• Add ability to customize the job parameters converter in the default batch configuration #4650
• Add CompositeItemReader analogous to CompositeItemWriter and CompositeItemProcessor #757
• Allow dependent steps to start concurrently #2044
• Add blocking queue item reader/writer to enable implementing the staged event-driven architecture in batch jobs #2350
• Add support for data classes in JdbcCursorItemReaderBuilder & JdbcPagingItemReaderBuilder #4578
• Add support for query hints in JPA item readers #4479
• Add possibility to configure line separator in RecursiveCollectionLineAggregator #4594
• Add JobRegistrySmartInitializingSingleton #4521
• Add DatabaseType POSTGRES for the product name EnterpriseDB #4627
• Revisit the mechanism of job registration #4547

🐞 Bug fixes

• Incorrect bean configuration in DefaultBatchConfiguration #4543
• BeanPostProcessorChecker.postProcessAfterInitialization WARNING after upgrade spring-framework-6.1.0 #4489
• Possible duplicate state transitions in flow definition #3674
• Order of Transition Elements Still Does Not completely adhere to documentation #3996
• Memory leak in MessageChannelPartitionHandler when polling the database #4598
• ListItemWriter<T>::getWrittenItems has bad wildcard return type #4576
• SimpleBinaryBufferedReaderFactory misses line endings #811
• StepExecution.getEndTime() returns null in StepExecutionListener.afterStep() #3846
• Default value for ignoreWarnings in JdbcCursorItemReaderBuilder does not align with documentation #4570
• Remote partitioning doesn't work if you're using graalvm #4564
• SystemCommandTasklet does not propagate errors #4483
• Incorrect Chunk property value in implementation of ItemWriter write method #4560
• Incorrect step configuration when setting the taskExecutor before faultTolerant() #4438
• Incorrect deprecation in MongoPagingItemReader #4552
• JobRepository.deleteJobInstance() Fails with Foreign Key Constraint Violation if Job Executions have Step Executions #4382
• DefaultJobParametersConverter throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if input is empty string #4505
• Wrong column types in JdbcStepExecutionDao #4648
• MongoStepExecutionDao returns an different stepExecution if a job has multiple steps spring-projects-experimental/spring-batch-experimental/issues/3

🚀 Enhancements

• Bad performance of GET_LAST_STEP_EXECUTION query on DB2 with large STEP_EXECUTION table #4657
• Use Threadlocal.remove() instead of Threadlocal.set(null) #4601
• Performance issue in DefaultFieldSet due to the usage of SimpleDateFormat #1694
• Improve Error Messages in JobParametersBuilder methods #4581
• Implement jumpToItem in JsonItemReader #4557
• Maintain similar ordering of elements between DefaultStateTransitionComparator and FlowJobBuilder #4527
• Avoid collection copying #4553
• Make util classes to follow code style guide #4545
• Use annotation @Override consistently #4512
• Check dirty flag of step execution context before update in inner loop #4503
• Missing @FunctionalInterface in JobKeyGenerator #4613
• Proper default value for skipLimit #4661

📔 Documentation

• Flow order priority does not match documented behavior #4456
• Incorrect link to batch reference documentation on project page #4637
• Typo in architecture doc #4607
• Grammatical error in restart.adoc #4600
• Incorrect link in appendix #4595
• Missing information about error handling in ChunkListeners #4384
• Improve Javadoc regarding the sort order in RepositoryItemReader #4462
• Fix code sample that uses deprecated StepBuilderFactory #4582
• Misleading documentation on ItemWriteListener #4400
• Incorrect code example in documentation #4550
• Reference Documentation Uses Deprecated Class StepExecutionListenerSupport #4538
• Incorrect Type of getter in Documentation for JobParameters#getDouble #4526
• UI Aligment Issue - Spring Batch Version Number in Docs #4534
• Missing documentation about MultiResourceItemWriter not creating empty files when no data goes through delegates #4645
• Typo in the documentation chapter Spring Batch Integration #4649

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.2.0
• Spring Retry: 2.0.10
• Micrometer: 1.14.1
• Spring Integration: 6.4.0
• Spring AMQP: 3.2.0
• Spring Kafka: 3.3.0
• Spring Data: 3.4.0
• Spring Ldap: 3.2.8

🔨 Tasks

• Deprecate the usage of LobHandler #4588
• Deprecate SystemPropertyInitializer #4680
• Remove deprecated APIs scheduled for removal in v5.2.0 #4398
• Regression in javadocs deployment script #4511

❤️ Contributors

Many thanks to all contributors who worked on this release!

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Full change log: v5.1.2...v5.2.0

v5.2.0-RC1

⭐ New features

• Allow Subclasses in the CompositeItemReader #4682

🐞 Bug fixes

• Wrong column types in JdbcStepExecutionDao #4648
• MongoStepExecutionDao returns an different stepExecution if a job has multiple steps spring-projects-experimental/spring-batch-experimental/issues/3

🚀 Enhancements

• Missing @FunctionalInterface in JobKeyGenerator #4613

📔 Documentation

• Missing documentation about MultiResourceItemWriter not creating empty files when no data goes through delegates #4645
• Typo in the documentation chapter Spring Batch Integration #4649

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.2.0-RC2
• Spring Retry: 2.0.10
• Micrometer: 1.14.0-RC1
• Spring Integration: 6.4.0-RC1
• Spring AMQP: 3.2.0-RC1
• Spring Kafka: 3.3.0-RC1
• Spring Data: 3.4.0-RC1
• Spring Ldap: 3.2.7

❤️ Contributors

Many thanks to all contributors who worked on this release!

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Full change log: v5.2.0-M2...v5.2.0-RC1

v5.2.0-M2

⭐ New features

• Add support for MongoDB as JobRepository #877

• Introduce a resourceless job repository implementation #4679

• Add adapters for Java functional interfaces #4672

• Add ability to customize the job parameters converter in the default batch configuration #4650

• Add DatabaseType POSTGRES for the product name EnterpriseDB #4627

• Simple CompositeItemReader analogous to CompositeItemWriter and CompositeItemProcessor #757

• Allow dependent steps to start concurrently #2044

• Add blocking queue item reader/writer to enable implementing the staged event-driven architecture in batch jobs #2350

🚀 Enhancements

• Bad performance of GET_LAST_STEP_EXECUTION query on DB2 with large STEP_EXECUTION table #4657

🔨 Tasks

• Deprecate the usage of LobHandler #4588
• Deprecate SystemPropertyInitializer #4680

❤️ Contributors

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

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Full change log: v5.2.0-M1...v5.2.0-M2

v5.2.0-M1

⭐ New features

• Add support for data classes in JdbcCursorItemReaderBuilder & JdbcPagingItemReaderBuilder #4578
• Add support for query hints in JPA item readers #4479
• Add possibility to configure line separator in RecursiveCollectionLineAggregator #4594
• Revisit the mechanism of job registration #4547
• Add JobRegistrySmartInitializingSingleton #4521

🐞 Bug fixes

• Incorrect bean configuration in DefaultBatchConfiguration #4543
• BeanPostProcessorChecker.postProcessAfterInitialization WARNING after upgrade spring-framework-6.1.0 #4489
• Possible duplicate state transitions in flow definition #3674
• Order of Transition Elements Still Does Not completely adhere to documentation #3996
• Memory leak in MessageChannelPartitionHandler when polling the database #4598
• ListItemWriter<T>::getWrittenItems has bad wildcard return type #4576
• SimpleBinaryBufferedReaderFactory misses line endings #811
• StepExecution.getEndTime() returns null in StepExecutionListener.afterStep() #3846
• Default value for ignoreWarnings in JdbcCursorItemReaderBuilder does not align with documentation #4570
• Remote partitioning doesn't work if you're using graalvm #4564
• SystemCommandTasklet does not propagate errors #4483
• Incorrect Chunk property value in implementation of ItemWriter write method #4560
• Incorrect step configuration when setting the taskExecutor before faultTolerant() #4438
• Incorrect deprecation in MongoPagingItemReader #4552
• JobRepository.deleteJobInstance() Fails with Foreign Key Constraint Violation if Job Executions have Step Executions #4382
• DefaultJobParametersConverter throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if input is empty string #4505

🚀 Enhancements

• Use Threadlocal.remove() instead of Threadlocal.set(null) #4601
• Performance issue in DefaultFieldSet due to the usage of SimpleDateFormat #1694
• Improve Error Messages in JobParametersBuilder methods #4581
• Implement jumpToItem in JsonItemReader #4557
• Maintain similar ordering of elements between DefaultStateTransitionComparator and FlowJobBuilder #4527
• Avoid collection copying #4553
• Make util classes to follow code style guide #4545
• Use annotation @Override consistently #4512
• Check dirty flag of step execution context before update in inner loop #4503

📔 Documentation

• Flow order priority does not match documented behavior #4456
• Incorrect link to batch reference documentation on project page #4637
• Typo in architecture doc #4607
• Grammatical error in restart.adoc #4600
• Incorrect link in appendix #4595
• Missing information about error handling in ChunkListeners #4384
• Improve Javadoc regarding the sort order in RepositoryItemReader #4462
• Fix code sample that uses deprecated StepBuilderFactory #4582
• Misleading documentation on ItemWriteListener #4400
• Incorrect code example in documentation #4550
• Reference Documentation Uses Deprecated Class StepExecutionListenerSupport #4538
• Incorrect Type of getter in Documentation for JobParameters#getDouble #4526
• UI Aligment Issue - Spring Batch Version Number in Docs #4534

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.2.0-RC1
• Spring Retry: 2.0.9
• Micrometer: 1.14.0-M3
• Spring Integration: 6.4.0-M3
• Spring AMQP: 3.2.0-M3
• Spring Kafka: 3.3.0-M3
• Spring Data: 3.4.0-M1
• Spring Ldap: 3.2.6

🔨 Tasks

• Remove deprecated APIs scheduled for removal in v5.2.0 #4398
• Regression in javadocs deployment script #4511

❤️ Contributors

Many thanks to all contributors who worked on this release!

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Full change log: v5.1.2...v5.2.0-M1

v5.1.2

🐞 Bug fixes

• Incorrect Chunk property value in implementation of ItemWriter write method #4560
• SystemCommandTasklet does not propagate errors #4483
• Remote partitioning doesn't work if you're using graalvm #4564
• SimpleBinaryBufferedReaderFactory misses line endings #811
• Memory leak in MessageChannelPartitionHandler when polling the database #4598

🚀 Enhancements

• Improve Error Messages in JobParametersBuilder methods #4581

📔 Documentation

• Reference Documentation Uses Deprecated Class StepExecutionListenerSupport #4538
• Incorrect code example in documentation #4550
• Misleading documentation on ItemWriteListener #4400
• Code sample uses deprecated StepBuilderFactory #4582
• Typo in java-config.adoc #4591
• Incorrect link in appendix #4595

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.1.7
• Spring Retry: 2.0.6
• Micrometer: 1.12.6
• Spring Integration: 6.2.5
• Spring AMQP: 3.1.5
• Spring Kafka: 3.1.5
• Spring Data: 3.2.6
• Spring Ldap: 3.2.3

❤️ Contributors

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

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Full change log: v5.1.1...v5.1.2

v5.0.6

🐞 Bug fixes

• Incorrect Chunk property value in implementation of ItemWriter write method #4560
• SystemCommandTasklet does not propagate errors #4483
• Remote partitioning doesn't work if you're using graalvm #4564
• SimpleBinaryBufferedReaderFactory misses line endings #811
• Memory leak in MessageChannelPartitionHandler when polling the database #4598

🚀 Enhancements

• Improve Error Messages in JobParametersBuilder methods #4581

📔 Documentation

• Reference Documentation Uses Deprecated Class StepExecutionListenerSupport #4538
• Incorrect code example in documentation #4550
• Misleading documentation on ItemWriteListener #4400
• Code sample uses deprecated StepBuilderFactory #4582
• Typo in java-config.adoc #4591

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.0.20
• Spring Retry: 2.0.6
• Spring AMQP: 3.0.14
• Spring Kafka: 3.0.17

❤️ Contributors

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

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Full change log: v5.0.5...v5.0.6

v5.1.1

⭐ New features

• Add JobRegistrySmartInitializingSingleton #4521

🐞 Bug fixes

• Incorrect error message in JobOperatorFactoryBean #4528
• DefaultJobParametersConverter throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if input is empty string #4505
• JobRepository.deleteJobInstance() Fails with Foreign Key Constraint Violation if Job Executions have Step Executions #4382
• Incorrect step configuration when setting the taskExecutor before faultTolerant() #4438
• Incorrect deprecation in MongoPagingItemReader #4552

🚀 Enhancements

• Check dirty flag of step execution context before update in inner loop #4503

📔 Documentation

• Incorrect Type of getter in Documentation for JobParameters#getDouble #4526
• Broken link to Spring Batch docs #4498
• UI Aligment Issue - Spring Batch Version Number in Docs #4534

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.1.4
• Spring Retry: 2.0.5
• Spring Integration: 6.2.2
• Spring Data: 3.2.3
• Spring AMQP: 3.1.2
• Spring Kafka: 3.1.2
• Micrometer: 1.12.3

❤️ Contributors

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

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Full change log: v5.1.0...v5.1.1

v5.0.5

🐞 Bug fixes

• Incorrect error message in JobOperatorFactoryBean #4528
• DefaultJobParametersConverter throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if input is empty string #4505
• JobRepository.deleteJobInstance() Fails with Foreign Key Constraint Violation if Job Executions have Step Executions #4382
• Incorrect step configuration when setting the taskExecutor before faultTolerant() #4438

🚀 Enhancements

• Check dirty flag of step execution context before update in inner loop #4503

📔 Documentation

• Incorrect Type of getter in Documentation for JobParameters#getDouble #4526

🆙 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Framework: 6.0.17
• Spring Retry: 2.0.5
• Spring AMQP: 3.0.11
• Spring Kafka: 3.0.14

❤️ Contributors

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

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Full change log: v5.0.4...v5.0.5