See micrometer-metrics/micrometer#1424
See gh-19880

Closes gh-19639

* pr/19855:
  Polish "Encourage use of SpringBootApplication"
  Encourage use of SpringBootApplication

Closes gh-19855

See gh-19855

See gh-19855

Closes gh-19857

This commit removes references of cache infra following the move to
Micrometer. We no longer ships an infinispan specific binder so the
dependency has been removed as well.

Closes gh-19838

This reverts commit 487b9cbf.

Fixes gh-19788

Closes gh-19763

Closes gh-19710

The release did not happen in time for 2.1.12.

See gh-19649.

The JarFile was not being closed which linked a file handle and caused
a test failure on Windows.

The local variable has been renamed as, when declared in a
try-with-resources, Checkstyle was confused by the shadowing of the
jarFile field and required references to jarFile within the try-block
the be prefixed with this.

See gh-19595

Closes gh-19761

Closes gh-19641

Closes gh-19734

Closes gh-19733

Closes gh-19732

Closes gh-19731

Closes gh-19730

Closes gh-19729

Closes gh-19728

Closes gh-19727

Closes gh-19726

Closes gh-19725

Closes gh-19724

Closes gh-19723

Closes gh-19722

Closes gh-19721

Closes gh-19720

Closes gh-19719

Closes gh-19642

* pr/19595:
  Polish "Limit ChronoField values to their range"
  Limit ChronoField values to their range

Closes gh-19595

See gh-19595

See gh-19595

Closes gh-19530

Closes gh-19281

* pr/19540:
  Polish "Make equality checks defensive to null reference"
  Make equality checks defensive to null reference

Closes gh-19540

See gh-19540