Spring Batch 5.0.0-M8 is out!

On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 5.0.0-M8 is now available from our milestone repository.

In this milestone, we introduced two main changes:

• New default execution context serialization format
• SystemCommandTasklet enhancements

This blog post walks through these two major changes in details. For the complete list of changes,
please check the release notes.

New default execution context serialization format

In this milestone release, the DefaultExecutionContextSerializer was updated to serialize/deserialize the context to/from Base64.