Update Checker Notice

This release introduces the "Axon Framework Update Checker," which report the Axon Framework version and anonymized machine identifier to AxonIQ Servers.
In return, the Update Checker receives information about version updates and potential vulnerabilities, reporting this to the Axon Framework application.
For more details on what it does, why we added it, what you get in return, and how you can configure it, can be found onthis page.

🔨 Breaking changes

If your application uses theJobRunrEventScheduler orJobRunrDeadlineManager, be sure to upgrade to JobRunr 8!
This dependency upgrade pull request for Axon Framework 4.12.0 upgraded the version of JobRunr, which is not backwards compatible.

⭐ Features

• #3543 Update Checker with Anonymous Usage Analytics
• #3556 - Introduce theTopologyChangeListener

📈 Enhancements

• #3431 Added caching for unknown classes
• #3530 Incompatibility of MessageAuthorizationDispatchInterceptor and Tracing (DataDog)
• #3549 Spring Authorization intercepting simplification

🪲 Bug fixes

• #3551 - TrackingEventProcessor does not restart after janitor timeout interruption
• #3532 Duplicate call toEventstream.excludePayloadType() inEventBuffer.skipMessagesWithPayloadTypeOf()
• #3533 Remove duplicate call toEventstream.excludePayloadType when skipping anUnknownSerializedType

📖 Documentation

• #3374 docs: fix broken link for allocation-size details in "Auto-increment and sequences" section
• #3391 Spring Boot App Fails to Start: Missing RuntimeDomain Class from Protobuf After Axonframework Update from 4.10.3 to 4.11.1
• #3518 Upcasting snapshots documentation
• #3531 docs(event-snapshots): add warning - make it clear that SnapshotFilter implementations should check the aggregate type
• #3534 docs(known-issues): describeProtobuf version conflicts with Axon Server Connector
• #3546 Add Snapshot Event Upcasting section andSnapshotFilter usage warning

🛠️ Dependency upgrades

The following dependency updates were included in this release:

• #3282 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 8 updates
• #3300 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 3 updates
• #3301 Bump com.mchange:c3p0 from 0.11.0-pre1 to 0.11.0-pre2
• #3303 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 3 updates
• #3321 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 6 updates
• #3330 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 4 updates
• #3341 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 5 updates
• #3347 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 2 updates
• #3359 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 4 updates
• #3368 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 7 updates
• #3386 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 3 updates
• #3387 Bump actions/setup-java from 4.7.0 to 4.7.1 in the github-dependencies group
• #3406 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 4 updates
• #3416 Bump the maven-dependencies group across 1 directory with 3 updates
• #3419 Bump com.mysql:mysql-connector-j from 9.2.0 to 9.3.0 in the maven-dependencies group
• #3430 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 4 updates
• #3441 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 4 updates
• #3445 Bump the maven-dependencies group across 1 directory with 4 updates
• #3446 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 2 updates
• #3448 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 2 updates
• #3453 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 5 updates
• #3462 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 2 updates
• #3472 Bump org.postgresql:postgresql from 42.7.6 to 42.7.7
• #3476 Bump the maven-dependencies group with 5 updates
• #3537 Bump the maven-dependencies group across 1 directory with 17 updates
• #3548 Bump the maven-dependencies group across 1 directory with 8 updates

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

• @MateuszNaKodach
• @OLibutzki
• @abuijze
• @hahawin
• @smcvb