- Fixed a wide range of bugs in Kafka security handling, Cloud Foundry integration, Spring Boot components, and resource cleanup.
- Upgraded numerous dependencies, notably Spring Framework 7.0.9, Spring Security 7.0.7, and related libraries (Jackson, Micrometer, Hibernate, etc.).
- Improved documentation, added hints, corrected typos, and removed the deprecated InfluxDB auto‑configuration.
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