- Fixed numerous bugs such as auto‑configuration of ScheduledBeanLazyInitializationExcludeFilter, duplicate banner output, property binding errors, IPv6 Redis sentinel parsing, and other runtime issues.
- Improved documentation by correcting typos, clarifying Tomcat SSL connector examples, fixing Actuator and Kafka Streams docs, and aligning type‑safe configuration examples.
- Upgraded a wide range of dependencies (Byte Buddy, Dropwizard Metrics, Ehcache, Elasticsearch, Hazelcast, Hibernate, HttpClient5, Micrometer, Netty, PostgreSQL, Reactor, Spring Framework, Spring Security, Tomcat, etc.) to newer versions.