2021.21.0

Highlights

• Switch to Java 11 (#1596)
  • Switch from Java 8 to Java 11
    • Update Github Actions workflow
    • Update Gitpod Dockerfile (use Java 11.0.13-tem Eclipse Adoptium Temurin build)
    • Update all .classpath files to use JavaSE-11
    • Update EdgeApp and BackendApp.bndrun to use JavaSE-11
  • Replace apache xmlrpc with aXMLRPC
    • Apache ws-xmlrpc depends on javax.xml.bind, which was deprecated since Java 9 and was removed in Java 11
    • Thank you @gturri for providing a nearly drop-in replacement for Apache ws-xmlrpc
    • This also removes the dependency for Apache WebServices Common Utilities (ws-commons-util), which was also removed
    • Update OdooUtils to use aXMLRPC instead
  • Replace deprecated methods in OneWire
    • clazz.newInstance(): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53257073/java-9-replace-class-newinstance
    • new Long() by Long.valueOf()
    • new Integer() by Integer.valueOf()
    • new Integer() by Integer.parseInt()
  • Remove InfluxDB config as it is not installed by default in Gitpod
  • By default remove the .settings directory which is specific to Eclipse IDE (via tools/prepare-commit.sh)

If you need a prepuilt Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Java 11, please refer to https://adoptium.net/. Updated Debian Packages by the Eclipse Adoptium project are still work-in-progress (see adoptium/installer#330), but the ones by Adopt-OpenJDK are still available here: https://adoptopenjdk.jfrog.io/ui/native/deb/pool/main/a

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Bump jna from 5.9.0 to 5.10.0 in /cnf (#1662)
• Update UI dependencies d977003
  • Waiting for Ionic v6 to update Angular to v13: https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/angular-13-support/217067
• Update gradle to 7.3 2c3f4a6