- Fixed nondeterministic JavaBean property binding and numerous bugs in actuator, Redis, JPA repositories, error handling, WebFlux tags, and other core components
- Improved documentation covering DevTools usage, error handling, and renamed SLA to SLO, plus clarified metric and security property sections
- Upgraded a wide range of third‑party libraries (ActiveMQ, Caffeine, DB2 JDBC, Dropwizard Metrics, Groovy, Hibernate, HttpCore, Jetty, Micrometer, Netty, Reactor, Spring AMQP, Batch, Data, Framework, HATEOAS, Kafka, Security, Tomcat, Unde...