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Release history and use in Alma

This is the fifth ACS development to be used in Cycle 9. Below is the list of addressed tickets.

Summary of Changes

• ​Obsolescence management including changes originally planned for 2 releases
  • Third party tools (Upgrades and cleanup)
    • expat, shunit
  • Java (~50 dependencies + clean-up) – Most notably
    • Hibernate
    • Spring
    • JAXB
  • ​Python (14 dependencies) – Most notably
    • numpy
    • matplotlib
    • setuptools
  • Support for Python 3.8 (3.6 is still default, 3.8 will be made default in 2022FEB)
  • Support to patch Maven dependencies
    • They get installed to $ALMASW_INSTDIR/JavaDependencies/lib/<artifactId>-<version>-acs.jar
    • Examples are castor and xercesImpl
• New BACI properties (longLongSeq and uLongLongSeq)
• Implementation in C++, Java and Python
• Some cleanup and alignments in Java and Python (Missing BACI property types and misspellings)
• New Makefile bug-fixes and improvements
  • Support of MAKE_ONLY directive
• Patched pip to allow --target + --target-scripts directories
  • Proposed patch to upstream, currently in review
• ACS Makefile allows to deploy PY_PACKAGES to a PyPI server generating a setup.py from Makefile/rules.mk information
• Python component code is now correctly reloaded on activation without restarting the container (Just make sure no references are left before requesting your new reference)

Addressed JIRA tickets

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