- Upgraded Hibernate to 6.2.22.Final with a GraalVM native‑image incompatibility notice (downgrade to 6.2.20.Final recommended).
- Fixed a wide range of bugs covering image naming, banner charset, Gradle version support, property placeholder resolution, Gson settings, Testcontainers typo, Docker 25.0 buildpacks, resource loading, Mockito static mocks, tracing proper...
- Added documentation clarifications and performed extensive dependency upgrades across the Spring ecosystem and related libraries.