Prepare release 5.4.0

Author: greenrobot-team

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ 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
+## 5.4.0 - 2026-03-24
 
 - Update Android and JVM libraries to database version `5.3.0-2026-03-23`
 - Admin: Status tab "Count and Sizes" and "System and Info" improved

README.md

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ agp = "AGP_VERSION"
 kotlin = "KOTLIN_VERSION"
 
 # Define a variable for the version of the ObjectBox plugin
-objectbox = "5.3.0"
+objectbox = "5.4.0"
 
 [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 "5.3.0" apply false
+    id("io.objectbox") version "5.4.0" apply false
 }
 ```
 
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ dependencyResolutionManagement {
 
 buildscript {
     // Define a variable for the ObjectBox plugin version
-    val objectboxVersion by extra("5.3.0")
+    val objectboxVersion by extra("5.4.0")
 
     repositories {
         // Add Maven Central to the plugin repositories     
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ allprojects {
 
 buildscript {
     // Define a variable for the ObjectBox plugin version
-    ext.objectboxVersion = "5.3.0"
+    ext.objectboxVersion = "5.4.0"
   
     repositories {        
         // Add Maven Central to the plugin repositories

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 = "5.3.1"
+    val versionNumber = "5.4.0"
 
     // Release mode should only be enabled when manually triggering a CI pipeline,
     // see the release checklist in the objectbox repo.

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 = "5.2.0-2026-03-10";
+    public static final String JNI_VERSION = "5.3.0-2026-03-23";
 
     /**
      * The ObjectBox database version this Java library is known to work with.