- Fixed ClientObservationConventionAdapter overwriting WebClient attributes and prevented StackOverflowError in custom deny‑all filter on Tomcat with Log4j2.
- Corrected BindValidationFailureAnalyzer target, Maven property handling failures, and ensured @ServletComponentScan registers components in mock web environments.
- Updated numerous dependencies (ActiveMQ, AspectJ, Byte Buddy, Groovy, Hibernate, Jakarta JSON‑B, Jersey, jOOQ, Lombok, Micrometer, Neo4j, Netty, R2DBC PostgreSQL, Reactor, SLF4J, Spring modules, Tomcat) and fixed Javadoc link for @WriteO...