v3.3.0-RC1

⭐ New Features

• Add TaskScheduler option for Kafka metrics components #3561
• Improving Observability in Asynchronous Processing (CompletableFuture, Mono) #3528
• KafkaListener with property overrides: overridden properties are not applied to key- and value-deserializers #3526
• Customize Instantiation of KafkaStreams in StreamsBuilderFactoryBean #3515
• Allow @Override of KafkaAdmin createAdmin() #3483
• KafkaHeaders.DELIVERY_ATTEMPT is not added for batch listeners #3407
• @RetryableTopic not working for asynchronous @KafkaListener return types #3276

🐞 Bug Fixes

• NullPointerException in AbstractKafkaHeaderMapper #3581
• @KafkaListener containerPostProcessor SpEL expression is not being evaluated #3544
• Docs say defaultRetryTopicKafkaTemplate is the default template bean name. @RetryableTopic javadoc says retryTopicDefaultKafkaTemplate #3514
• Code example in the documentation for Dynamically Creating Containers - Prototype Beans (Kotlin) is wrong #3513

📔 Documentation

• Fix typos across multiple documents #3538

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.11.2 to 5.11.3 #3586
• Bump org.springframework.retry:spring-retry from 2.0.9 to 2.0.10 #3566
• Bump mockitoVersion from 5.14.1 to 5.14.2 #3565
• Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.11.1 to 5.11.2 #3531
• Bump log4jVersion from 2.24.0 to 2.24.1 #3530
• Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.11.0 to 5.11.1 #3519

❤️ Contributors

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

@bky373, @chickenchickenlove, @engkimbs, @esperar, @kwonyonghyun, @shalk, and @yhao3