- Added feature to exclude groovy.lang.MetaClass from configuration annotation processing
- Fixed numerous bugs including PropertyMapper chaining, jar resource leaks, DevTools shutdown commands, thread‑safety issues, servlet factory reference, and others
- Updated documentation (jOOQ expansion, regex fix) and upgraded a wide range of dependencies such as Spring Framework, Micrometer, Spring Kafka, Hibernate Validator, Tomcat, Jetty, and more)