v3.3.1

⭐ New Features

• Allow kafka-clients 3.9.x with Spring-Kafka 3.3.x #3662
• Change "synchronized" to reentrant lock for virtual-threads #3652
• Allow configuring observation registry directly #3643

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Confusing warning in batch listener: No batch message converter is set. because record message converter is null. #3687
• EmbeddedKafkaBroker consume with seekToEnd does not reliably seek to the end #3660
• EmbeddedKafkaCustomizer ignores adminTimeout in EmbeddedKafka annotation #3658
• Value parameters in ReactiveKafkaProducerTemplate should be nullable #3617

📔 Documentation

• Fix dead page url in filtering.adoc #3648
• Calling .nack() suspends consumer group rebalance #2128

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.11.3 to 5.11.4 #3688
• Bump org.springframework:spring-framework-bom from 6.2.0 to 6.2.1 #3677
• Bump org.springframework.data:spring-data-bom from 2024.1.0 to 2024.1.1 #3676
• Bump io.micrometer:micrometer-bom from 1.14.1 to 1.14.2 #3675
• Bump log4jVersion from 2.24.2 to 2.24.3 #3674
• Bump org.springframework.retry:spring-retry from 2.0.10 to 2.0.11 #3673
• Bump io.micrometer:micrometer-tracing-bom from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 #3672
• Bump io.projectreactor:reactor-bom from 2024.0.0 to 2024.0.1 #3671
• Bump com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom from 2.18.1 to 2.18.2 #3654
• Bump log4jVersion from 2.24.1 to 2.24.2 #3647

❤️ Contributors

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

@bky373, @cfredri4, @omercelikceng, @pszymczyk, and @sobychacko