What's New in Spring Batch 5

Discover the latest advancements in Spring Batch 5 in this comprehensive conference talk from Spring I/O 2023. Explore the culmination of two years of work, featuring dozens of improvements, new features, and bug fixes contributed by over 50 developers. Delve into major changes in this new generation of the framework, including dependency updates, Java version updates, Java records support, @EnableBatchProcessing improvements, and parameter conversion enhancements. Learn about new database support, execution context improvements, schema updates, and batch metrics advancements. Gain insights into enabling batch metrics and tracing, as well as GraalVM native support improvements. Understand the removed features, support policy, and future plans for Spring Batch. Whether you're a current Spring Batch user or curious about the new release, this talk provides valuable information to enhance your understanding and implementation of the framework.