• AAE-41417 Send activity-started event for async multi-instance tasks by @revatilimaye in https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/pull/5276
• AAE-41710 Update Assertj to 3.27.7 by @killerboot in https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/pull/5280

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2026-01-30 Release of logback version 1.5.27

• Updated license to Eclipse Public License version 2.0 from version 1.0, retaining the GPL 2.1 dual-license.

• Fixed missing MDC data transmitted by SocketAppender reported in issues/1010 by Lars Vogel.

• Removed all Receiver classes and components which were already disabled for several years.

• Refactored file scanning code for improved clarity.

• In SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy modified totalSizeCap and maxFileSize comparison to taking into account file compression. This fixes issues/1007.

• A bit-wise identical binary of this version can be reproduced by building from source code at commit 3618eb01aad6672f9cd250dccf7546a69cbe982f associated with the tag v_1.5.27. Release built using Java "21" 2023-10-17 LTS build 21.0.1.+12-LTS-29 under Linux Debian 11.6.

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• a0ef99e: [py] Modularize Bazel build with per-module targets (#17012) (Titus Fortner) #17012
• cca0889: [dotnet] update formatting rules (#17019) (Titus Fortner) #17019

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