v3.2.0-RC1

⭐ New Features

• @PartitionOffset supprt TopicPartitionOffset.SeekPosition #3178
• Add an option to leave consumer group when closing Streams #3168
• Add checkstyle rule on empty-line-separater #3162
• Remove org.apache.kafka native runtime hints #3147
• Adding new KafkaListenerEndpointRegistry.getListenerContainersMatchingId(predicate: Predicate<String>) #3135
• Allows to initialize/inject the Topology object without starting the Kafka streams. #3020
• More and proper tags for observation spans #2609

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Duplicate record consumption due to offset decrease in last offset commit #3186
• Setting the Kafka Streams property default.dsl.store has no effect #3176
• BatchInterceptor is not working properly with retries #3166
• MDCs are missing in logs produced by DefaultErrorHandler. #3151
• In kafka events, the traceId and spanId are not written in the logs #3146

📔 Documentation

• fix typo in JsonDeSerializer.TYPE_MAPPINGS #3144
• Spring Kafka not working properly with Java 21 Virtual Threads, listeners are tied to a platform thread forever #3074

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Bump org.springframework:spring-framework-bom from 6.1.5 to 6.1.6 #3194
• Bump io.projectreactor:reactor-bom from 2023.0.4 to 2023.0.5 #3193
• Bump log4jVersion from 2.23.0 to 2.23.1 #3157

❤️ Contributors

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

@JooHyukKim, @juwit, @sobychacko, and @system205