Axon Framework - Release 5.0.0-RC3

Announcements
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I’m glad to announce that we’ve released Axon Framework version 5.0.0-RC3 on Nov 06, 2025.
This release contains:

:chart_with_upwards_trend: Enhancements

  • 4 / 4 Use singular subjectives describing the process of doing in package name (gerundium) #3867
  • Rename SimpleEventStore to StorageEngineBackedEventStore #3863
  • 2 / 4 Extract and modules out of messaging #3859
  • Removed exceptional results references from ResultMessage #3844
  • test(messaging): - rewrite to use declarative approach #3843
  • should wait for commands in progress to be finished #3842
  • Cleanup messaging module - restructure packages and modules #3836
  • [#3814] feat: Non-blocking parameter resolution - add for #3817
  • Async - eg. non-blocking #3814
  • Remove leftover logic #3602

:beetle: Bug fixes

  • Retrofit split/merge concurrency issue from 4.12.2 #3866
  • AxonServerCommandBusConnector must wait for incoming commands to complete on shutdown #3865
  • Fixed inconsistent responses issue in DistributedQueryBus #3845
  • fix(messaging): QueryGateway - subscriptionQuery - use converter for response payload #3839
  • Fix token query methods #3838

:hammer_and_wrench: Dependency upgrades

  • chore(deps): bump the maven-dependencies group across 1 directory with 20 updates #3823

:heart: Contributors

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