Prepare release 5.3.0

greenrobot-team · greenrobot-team · commit f7c8dca0d65d · 2026-03-10T14:03:19.000+01:00
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,12 +4,78 @@ Notable changes to the ObjectBox Java library.
 
 For more insights into what changed in the database libraries, [check the ObjectBox C changelog](https://github.com/objectbox/objectbox-c/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).
 
-## Next release
+## 5.3.0 - 2026-03-10
+
+- Gradle plugin: to apply the plugin, it is no longer necessary to add a manual mapping of the plugin ID in your
+  projects Gradle settings file. This was resolved by publishing Gradle plugin marker artifacts.
+  [#960](https://github.com/objectbox/objectbox-java/issues/960)
+- Gradle plugin: it is no longer necessary to apply the plugin after the dependencies block when manually including
+  ObjectBox dependencies.
+- (Minor) performance improvements of HNSW vector search on Linux ARM targets
                     
 ### Sync
 
+- Sync protocol version 10
 - SyncClient: support updating filter variables. After login, stage updates using put and remove, then schedule to send
   them to the server with `applyFilterVariables()`.
+- Update client sync filters variables when online
+- Clients report errors to the server
+
+### Migration instructions
+
+#### Drop the Gradle plugin ID mapping
+
+If your `settings.gradle.kts` or `settings.gradle` file contains lines similar to:
+
+```kotlin
+pluginManagement {
+    repositories {
+        mavenCentral()
+    }
+    
+    resolutionStrategy {
+        eachPlugin {
+            if (requested.id.id == "io.objectbox") {
+                useModule("io.objectbox:objectbox-gradle-plugin:${requested.version}")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+```
+
+Update them to remove the plugin mapping configuration:
+
+```kotlin
+pluginManagement {
+    repositories {
+        mavenCentral()
+    }
+}
+```
+
+#### Apply the plugin using plugins syntax
+
+If your build scripts are applying the plugin after the dependencies block similar to:
+
+```kotlin
+dependencies {
+    // ...  
+} 
+
+apply(plugin = "io.objectbox")
+```
+
+Change them to apply the plugin using plugins syntax:
+
+```kotlin
+plugins {
+    id("io.objectbox")
+}
+
+dependencies {
+    // ...  
+}
+```
 
 ## 5.2.0 - 2026-02-16
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ agp = "AGP_VERSION"
 kotlin = "KOTLIN_VERSION"
 
 # Define a variable for the version of the ObjectBox plugin
-objectbox = "5.2.0"
+objectbox = "5.3.0"
 
 [plugins]
 # For an Android project, using Android Gradle Plugin 9.0 or newer
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ Your project can now use ObjectBox, continue by [defining entity classes](https:
 
 plugins {
     // Add the ObjectBox plugin
-    id("io.objectbox") version "5.2.0" apply false
+    id("io.objectbox") version "5.3.0" apply false
 }
 ```
 
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ dependencyResolutionManagement {
 
 buildscript {
     // Define a variable for the ObjectBox plugin version
-    val objectboxVersion by extra("5.2.0")
+    val objectboxVersion by extra("5.3.0")
   
     repositories {
         // Add Maven Central to the plugin repositories     
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ allprojects {
 
 buildscript {
     // Define a variable for the ObjectBox plugin version
-    ext.objectboxVersion = "5.2.0"
+    ext.objectboxVersion = "5.3.0"
   
     repositories {        
         // Add Maven Central to the plugin repositories
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ plugins {
 buildscript {
     // Version of Maven artifacts
     // Should only be changed as part of the release process, see the release checklist in the objectbox repo
-    val versionNumber = "5.2.1"
+    val versionNumber = "5.3.0"
 
     // Release mode should only be enabled when manually triggering a CI pipeline,
     // see the release checklist in the objectbox repo.
diff --git a/objectbox-java/src/main/java/io/objectbox/BoxStore.java b/objectbox-java/src/main/java/io/objectbox/BoxStore.java
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ public class BoxStore implements Closeable {
      * ReLinker uses this as a suffix for the extracted shared library file. If different, it will update it. Should be
      * unique to avoid conflicts.
      */
-    public static final String JNI_VERSION = "5.1.1-2026-02-18";
+    public static final String JNI_VERSION = "5.2.0-2026-03-10";
 
     /**
      * The ObjectBox database version this Java library is known to work with.
