Full Changelog: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/compare/7.20.0-rc.1032...7.20.0-rc.1034

• Add TWENTY_SIX to JavaVersion enum #49193

• Jackson properties may not be applied correctly to RestClients #49223
• ClassNotFoundException when using Actuator without spring-boot-health #49196
• Using the OTel and Zipkin starters together creates invalid configuration #49183
• Whitespace can be incorrectly removed when spring-boot-configuration-processor runs on multi-line javadoc #49060
• Jackson2HttpMessageConvertersConfiguration uses ConditionOn Jackson3 XMLMapper class #49015
• server.jetty.threads.max is ignored when using virtual threads #48989
• Slice test includes fail to load when using spring-boot-starter-test-classic #48981
• Docker credential helpers with file extensions cannot be executed on Windows #48979
• Java version requirement check for native image is confusing if AOT didn't run #48963
• TestPropertyValues.Pair.fromMapEntry(Entry<String, String>) does not comply with its nullability contract #48948

• Couchbase and Kafka are incorrectly listed as supporting SSL with Docker Compose #49212
• Document that use of non idiomatic format for '@Value' still apply for environment variables #49109
• Document naming convention for custom test-scoped starters #49017
• Delay removal of Jackson 2 support until 4.3 at the earliest #49010
• LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt files have the wrong content in the latest releases #49003
• ApplicationContextAssert documents a non-existent assertion in getFailure() #48977
• Highlight the importance of the preStop hook when configuring Kubernetes probes #48946

• Upgrade to AssertJ 3.27.7 #49095
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 9.2.5 #49184
• Upgrade to Groovy 5.0.4 #49097
• Upgrade to Hibernate 7.2.3.Final #49098
• Upgrade to Hibernate 7.2.4.Final #49167
• Upgrade to Jaybird 6.0.4 #49099
• Upgrade to JBoss Logging 3.6.2.Final #49100
• Upgrade to Jersey 4.0.2 #49101
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.1.6 #49102
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.30 #49103
• Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 6.0.3 #49233
• Upgrade to Logback 1.5.29 #49169
• Upgrade to Logback 1.5.32 #49245
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.16.3 #49111
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.6.3 #49112
• Upgrade to MongoDB 5.6.3 #49105
• Upgrade to MySQL 9.6.0 #49106
• Upgrade to Netty 4.2.10.Final #49107
• Upgrade to Postgresql 42.7.10 #49202
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2025.0.3 #49087
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2025.1.3 #49088
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.5 #49216
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 7.0.3 #49217
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 4.0.3 #49090
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 4.0.2 #49091
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 2.0.3 #49092
• Upgrade to Spring Security 7.0.3 #49093
• Upgrade to Spring Session 4.0.2 #49094
• Upgrade to Tomcat 11.0.18 #49108

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@GaetanoCerciello, @dsyer, @linkian209, @nosan, @quaff, @scordio, and @srt

• Whitespace can be incorrectly removed when spring-boot-configuration-processor runs on multi-line javadoc #49039
• server.jetty.threads.max is ignored when using virtual threads #48982
• Docker credential helpers with file extensions cannot be executed on Windows #48965

• Couchbase and Kafka are incorrectly listed as supporting SSL with Docker Compose #49211
• Document that use of non idiomatic format for '@Value' still apply for environment variables #49054
• Document naming convention for custom test-scoped starters #49014
• LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt files have the wrong content in the latest releases #48996
• ApplicationContextAssert documents a non-existent assertion in getFailure() #48973
• Highlight the importance of the preStop hook when configuring Kubernetes probes #48936

• Upgrade to AssertJ 3.27.7 #49075
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.30 #49076
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.6.42.Final #49077
• Upgrade to Jaybird 6.0.4 #49078
• Upgrade to JBoss Logging 3.6.2.Final #49079
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.32 #49080
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.30 #49081
• Upgrade to Logback 1.5.32 #49243
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.15.9 #49064
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.5.9 #49065
• Upgrade to MySQL 9.6.0 #49083
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.131.Final #49165
• Upgrade to Postgresql 42.7.10 #49201
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2024.0.15 #49066
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.5.6 #49067
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2025.0.9 #49068
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.16 #49069
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.4.5 #49070
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.5.7 #49071
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.3.13 #49244
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.3.6 #49072
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.2.15 #49073
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.5.8 #49225
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.5.5 #49074
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.52 #49084
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.3.23.Final #49166

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@dsyer, @linkian209, @nosan, @quaff, @scordio, and @srt

• Bump org.htmlunit:neko-htmlunit from 4.14.0 to 4.15.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1415
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.11.2 to 3.11.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1416
• Bump maven-surefire-plugin.version from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1428
• Bump org.htmlunit:neko-htmlunit from 4.15.0 to 4.17.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1434
• Bump org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib from 2.2.10 to 2.2.21 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1443
• Bump org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-maven-plugin from 2.2.10 to 2.2.21 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1444
• Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 11.0.0 to 12.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1445
• Required Java version clarification in README.md by @Emkas in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1453
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.27.4 to 3.27.7 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1459
• Update Bouncy Castle version to 1.83 by @andreasrosdal in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1460
• Fix IndexOutOfBoundsException in FopGlyphProcessor due to 1:N Thai Glyph Expansion by @PskDream in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1457
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.3.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1461
• Bump junit.version from 5.13.4 to 6.0.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1462
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.20.0 to 2.21.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1463
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.11.3 to 3.12.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1465
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1464
• Add text coordinate extraction API (PR #1442 fixed) by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1466
• [WIP] Refactor PdfContentTextExtractor and PdfTextLocator to reduce duplicate code by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1467
• Reduce code duplication in PDF parser classes by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1468
• [WIP] Fix compatibility issue for Android by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1469
• openpdf-html: Improve support for CSS @font-face #1426 by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1470
• Improve openpdf-renderer: documentation, build config, and code quality by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1471
• Add comprehensive unit test suite for openpdf-renderer module by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1472
• Improve Image alignment documentation for inline image placement by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1474
• fix issue #1446 - VSCode project loading failure by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1475
• Fix non-breaking space (U+00A0) handling in text justification by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1473
• Fix AI(11) length for GS1-128 Production date barcode by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1476
• [WIP] Fix Barcode128Test test by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1478
• Fix for Issue #1430: API to set custom first-line baseline Y in ColumnText by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1477
• Fix indexed image detection to prevent PDF size inflation by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1479
• Add basic support for PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 conformance levels by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1480
• feat: add support for Ideographic Variation Sequences (IVS) in TrueTy… by @wang0331 in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1482
• Bump com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations from 2.41.0 to 2.47.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1483
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin from 3.4.2 to 3.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1484
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1486
• Bump org.jacoco:jacoco-maven-plugin from 0.8.13 to 0.8.14 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1485
• Bump org.htmlunit:neko-htmlunit from 4.17.0 to 4.21.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1487
• docs: Update Contributors.md by @wang0331 in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1488
• Complete font-face improvements for #1426 by @alexdupre in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1489
• Improve openpdf-html with htmlunit-neko DOMParser integration and HTML5 feature tests by @Copilot in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1490
• Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 12.1.1 to 13.2.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1495
• Bump org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib from 2.2.21 to 2.3.10 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1493
• Bump org.sonatype.central:central-publishing-maven-plugin from 0.8.0 to 0.10.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1491
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin from 3.14.0 to 3.15.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1494
• Bump org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-maven-plugin from 2.2.21 to 2.3.10 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1492

• @andreasrosdal made their first contribution in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1460
• @PskDream made their first contribution in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1457
• @Copilot made their first contribution in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1466
• @wang0331 made their first contribution in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1482
• @alexdupre made their first contribution in https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/pull/1489

Full Changelog: https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/compare/3.0.0...3.0.1

• 6d0c57e: [dotnet] [bidi] Add UserContext in event args (#17100) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17100
• 9aace1d: [dotnet] Remove global suppressions from Support project (#17099) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17099
• 4331724: [dotnet] Implicit global usings (#17094) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17094
• 77f325f: [dotnet] Selenium Manager as async (breaking change) (#17088) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17088
• f770e3a: [dotnet] Remove unnecessary ICommandServer interface (breaking change) (#17103) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17103
• 0f0ff6a: [dotnet] Fix start/quit implementation on incorrect level (#17105) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17105
• d8195c8: [grid] Fix Distributor thread exhaustion in node health-check cycle (#17104) (Viet Nguyen Duc) #17104
• 741fe01: [grid] Fix WebSocket connection counter leaks in ProxyNodeWebsockets (#17106) (Viet Nguyen Duc) #17106
• d330e8d: [dotnet] Refactor waiting until driver service is initialized (#17107) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17107
• 88b7673: [dotnet] Asynchronously start driver service (breaking change) (#17108) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17108
• 527a40b: [grid] Distributor retry session when RemoteNode executor shutting down (#17109) (Viet Nguyen Duc) #17109
• d4b49f5: [dotnet] Stop/Dispose driver service asynchronously (#17110) (Nikolay Borisenko) #17110
• ab138ab: [py] Add in rules to agents around python 3.10+ (#17102) (David Burns) #17102

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/compare/7.20.0-rc.1031...7.20.0-rc.1032

• Optimize request and response header handling in Spring MVC #36334

• Consistent adaptation of HTTP headers on Servlet responses #36343
• Copy methodAnnotations in MethodParameter copy constructor #36342
• Improve performance of validation groups determination in WebFlux #36336
• Reuse AnnotatedMethod annotation cache in derived instances #36322
• Optimize the addition of a charset to the MediaType in AbstractHttpMessageConverter #36320
• Optimize MediaType(MediaType, Charset) constructor #36318
• Detect all common size exceptions from Tomcat and Commons FileUpload 2.x #36317
• Consistently support @Autowired as a meta-annotation #36315
• Avoid duplicate required attribute lookup for @Autowired annotations #36314
• Cache @ResponseBody presence per controller class in RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor #36311

• ResolvableType#getGenerics() breaks serialization #36346
• DefaultHttpMessageConverters not adding provided configurer #36332
• Restore early MessageConsumer creation for temporary queue #36321
• Multipart upload leak on client abort (ByteBuf.release() not called) #36262

• Document that SpEL expressions using Optional with null-safe and Elvis operators are not compilable #36331
• Improve documentation of baseline API version to emphasize version must be supported #36316
• Stop referring to obsolete ListenableFuture in documentation #36313
• Stop referring to standard Java features as "Java 8" features in documentation #36310

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Niravil and @TAKETODAY