v4.0.2

⭐ New Features

• Remove TODO comment and unnecessary null checks for getBeanName() #4253
• Standardize usage of @Serial annotation for serialVersionUID #4236
• @BackOff does not recognize the __listener placeholder #4232

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Duplicated metric "spring.kafka.listener" increment when RetryableTopic enabled #4230

📔 Documentation

• Fix reference of deprecated serde APIs in docs #4244
• Update example Javadoc for EnableKafka annotations #4239
• Correct method javadoc #4229
• Fix plural words rendering in docs #4201

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Bump com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom from 2.20.1 to 2.20.2 #4256
• Bump org.springframework:spring-framework-bom from 7.0.2 to 7.0.3 #4252
• Bump io.micrometer:micrometer-tracing-bom from 1.6.1 to 1.6.2 #4251
• Bump io.projectreactor:reactor-bom from 2025.0.1 to 2025.0.2 #4249
• Bump org.springframework.data:spring-data-bom from 2025.1.1 to 2025.1.2 #4248
• Bump io.micrometer:micrometer-bom from 1.16.1 to 1.16.2 #4247
• Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 #4237
• Bump log4jVersion from 2.25.2 to 2.25.3 #4226

❤️ Contributors

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

@david-parkk, @jjank, @ngocnhan-tran1996, and @quaff