- Fixed multiple bugs including Flyway/Liquibase migration timing, Redshift driver detection, RabbitMQ metrics, JPA deadlock on ContextRefreshedEvent, Thymeleaf dialect handling in tests, and metric interceptor errors.
- Enhanced documentation with updated Gradle plugin recommendations, Kafka Streams metrics, property defaults formatting, bootRun examples, custom banner usage, reference index versioning, and logging shutdown hook guidance.
- Upgraded numerous dependencies such as Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Data, Micrometer, Hibernate, and others to newer releases.