Adapt to API changes in Micrometer and Spring Boot's test context loader API now exposing a checked ContextLoadException to signal failures during ApplicationContext bootstraps.
Added dedicated prepare-release profile to make sure that all modules get their versions updated on mvn release:prepare. This is required to make sure the tag lands on a commit that especially has the distribution module updated so that the documentation publication actually produces the artifacts for the released version.
Switch to consistent usage of secrets via environment variables. Remove documentation generation from standard build. Some general POM polishing. A bit of release documentation.
Tweak build to contain a dedicated ci build profile for Javadoc creation post delombokification. Added an artifactory build profile to set up Artifactory deployment for milestones and snapshots.
Cleanups in sonatype build profile to avoid the definition of a snapshot repository to avoid snapshots accidentally be deployed there.
Re-enable observability module after a migration from Spring Cloud Sleuth to Micrometer. Bind the application of the observability instrumentation to the management.tracing.enabled flag.
Upgrade to Spring Boot 3 and Java 17 as project baselines. Removed legacy JavaEE modules and replaced them by ones compatible with JakartaEE 9.
Disabled the Observability module for now as Spring Cloud Sleuth has been removed the Boot 3 compatible Spring Cloud branch and we need to migrate the module to Micrometer first.
