v4.0.0-M2

⭐ New Features

• Verify support for the new Consumer Rebalance protocol in Spring Kafka #3847
• Upgrade Apache Kafka client dependencies to version 4.0.0 #3814
• GH-3810 Move the logging statement after the conditional statement. #3811
• Enable the tracing on the reply of a ReplyingKafkaTemplate #3808
• Optimize a MessagingMessageListenerAdapter returning null from the DelegatingInvocableHandler.invoke() #3697

🐞 Bug Fixes

• If an Error is thrown in the application's @KafkaListener listener code #3843
• KafkaOperations is missing nullable annotations #3813

📔 Documentation

• Fix plural words #3842
• Fix typo document #3824
• Update testing docs for 4.0.0 with the updates in EmbeddedKafka #3822
• Adding whats-new section for 4.0.0 #3821

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Bump io.projectreactor:reactor-bom from 2024.0.4 to 2024.0.5 #3859
• Bump org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-reactor from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 #3836
• Bump kotlinVersion from 2.1.10 to 2.1.20 #3817

❤️ Contributors

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

@ghgh415263, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @sobychacko, and @sullis