- Added a new JavaVersion enum constant (EIGHTEEN) as a feature update.
- Fixed a large set of bugs covering Thymeleaf auto‑configuration, Tomcat keep‑alive, Actuator @ReadOperation, R2DBC metrics, Prometheus scraping, and various configuration and classpath issues.
- Enhanced documentation across many areas (Thymeleaf, Netty compression, Gradle APIs, property placeholders, etc.) and upgraded core dependencies such as Couchbase, Dropwizard Metrics, Groovy, Hibernate Validator, Lettuce, Log4j2, Logback...