On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 6.1.0-M2 is available now from Maven Central! This second milestone brings a number of new features, enhancements and a few breaking changes on top of 6.1.0-M1 . This blog post walks you through the major changes: Dependencies upgrade Collection prefix for the MongoDB job repository Default conversion service based on DefaultFormattingConversionService Async processing APIs and local chunking moved to spring-batch-core Flushing support in RepositoryItemWriter Location patterns for resource-based readers Comp