- Added Actuator health check for Elasticsearch REST clients and several new default behaviors (RabbitMQ template queue deprecation, SSL client auth disable, Java 9 multi‑release JAR support).
- Fixed numerous issues including HibernateMetricsAutoConfiguration errors, embedded Mongo version NPE, multipart size defaults, WebFlux error template rendering, and endpoint mapping logs.
- Updated many libraries (Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Flyway, etc.) and improved documentation for test slices and system requirements.