- Fixed several bugs: RestTemplateBuilder incompatibility, CompositeHealth serialization, logging system selection, RandomValuePropertySource divide‑by‑zero, and startup issues on JDK 11 with SecurityManager.
- Improved documentation: corrected Spring Data JPA link, clarified Redis connection pool creation, added details for spring.profiles.default, Kubernetes terminationGracePeriodSeconds, and session cookie domain description.
- Upgraded numerous dependencies including AppEngine SDK, Dropwizard Metrics, Gson, Hibernate, JBoss Logging, Jetty, Johnzon, Neo4j OGM, RSocket, Spring AMQP, Spring Integration, and Spring Kafka.