v4.2.5.RELEASE

🐞 Bug fixes

• Setting resource should be optional for JsonItemReaderBuilder #3731
• Resource should be optional in StaxEventItemReaderBuilder #3736
• StaxEventItemReaderBuilder failing to set name for Reader at build #3753
• Job scoped steps can not be used within FlowBuilder #670
• After restarting a failed job using RunIdIncrementer, all subsequent job launches throw ClassCastException #3799
• Use isQuoteCharacter instead of direct char comparison in DelimitedLineTokenizer #682
• Incorrect behaviour of RepositoryItemReader#jumpToItem() on restart #1074
• Do not throw NPE for job instances without executions #3798

🚀 Enhancements

• kafkaTemplate in KafkaItemWriter should be protected #3802

📔 Documentation

• Fix typo in spring-batch-intro.adoc #3755