- Fixed a wide range of bugs affecting RestTemplateBuilder, health serialization, config import handling, JDK 11 startup with SecurityManager, logging system selection, bootBuildImage, and other components.
- Improved documentation with clarifications for Redis connection pools, session cookie domain, Kubernetes terminationGracePeriodSeconds, default profiles, Kotlin version requirements, and corrected Spring Data JPA link.
- Upgraded core dependencies such as Spring Framework 5.3.8, Spring AMQP 2.3.8, Spring Kafka 2.6.9, Dropwizard Metrics 4.1.22, Ehcache 3.9.4, Gson 2.8.7, Hibernate 5.4.32.Final, Jetty 9.4.42, jOOQ 3.14.11, Neo4j driver 4.1.3, RSocket 1.1.1...