- Fixed multiple bugs including outdated JSTL dependency handling, JUnit caching, AOP proxy duplication, profile precedence, Logback charset defaults, method validation inheritance, and Prometheus endpoint content type.
- Improved documentation by correcting examples, URLs, Javadoc tags, yaml formatting, property descriptions, and removing markdown syntax in messages.
- Upgraded a wide range of libraries (AppEngine SDK, Gson, Hazelcast, Johnzon, Kafka, Logback, Micrometer, Neo4j driver, Netty, Reactor, Spring modules, Tomcat) to newer versions.