1.3 M3

⭐ New Features

• Allow publication completion to delete database entries instead of setting completion date #748
• Support for external application module contributions #613
• Support for test execution optimization #31

💡 Improvements

• Move spring.modulith.republish-outstanding-events-on-restart into spring.modulith.events.… namespace #823
• Rename FormatableType to FormattableType #813
• Improve/fix Kotlin code examples #809
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server in JDBC event publication registry #804
• Support transitive dependency lookup for ApplicationModules #802
• Replace Spring Boot's @MockBean and @SpyBean with Framework's @MockitoBean and @MockitoSpyBean #795
• Invalid package reference in JacksonEventSerializer #788
• Wrong assert message of HourHasPassed #768

🪲 Bugs

• Inconsistent reference documentation on republication of incomplete event publications #818
• ApplicationModules.of(…) throws NoClassDefFoundError when using the jMolecules Kotlin library #801
• ApplicationModules bootstrap failing for non-unique base packages #797
• Invalid sub-module reference from module 'module3.submodule32' to module 'module3.submodule31' #787

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.4 M3 #824

❤️ Contributors

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

@lukasdo, @davidbilge, @ThiagoBfim, @breun, @martinbeentjes, and @sivaprasadreddy