4.3.8 Backported issues

[fmbenhassine]

• JobOperator#stop can not stop JobExecution correctly in some cases #4064
• Incorrect handling of file deletion in File-based writers #4203
• Optimize ExitStatus#addExitDescription #3979
• ClassCastException in RepositoryItemReader when using Slice<T> instead of Page<T> #4115
• Inconsistent state validation rules between RepositoryItemReader and RepositoryItemReaderBuilder #4276
• @StepScope not working when XML namespace activated #3936
• High memory consumption during long running jobs #3790
• Fix minor example in job.adoc #4199
• Incorrect reference to AbstractJobTests in documentation #4182

[fmbenhassine]

Closing this as 4.3.8 has been released: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/releases/tag/4.3.8