v3.1.0-M1

📔 Documentation

• Update kafka sample adoc #2811
• Antora #2801

🔨 Tasks

• Initial docs-deploy #2802
• Remove deprecated interfaces, classes, and methods #2797
• Output of asciidoctorPdf can be pulled from cache when run on machines with different checkout directories #2794
• Move main to 3.1; Upgrade Dependency Versions #2790
• Examine synchronized Blocks #2730
• Remove ThreadLocal Usage #2729

❤️ Contributors

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

@erichaagdev, @esperar, and @rwinch

External Links

• Reference Documentation