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

Summary of Changes

Added ExternalDependencies in ExtProds to install third party software and tools
- searchFile in bash and the 3 programming languages are now considering JavaDependencies and ExternalDependencies
Upgraded TMCDB Explorer to use current version of several JAR files including external (hibernate, spring, etc.) ones
- They were frozen during an old release (for instance hibernate 3 and old ALMA SW jar versions)
TMCDB Explorer clone functionality was fixed
Upgraded Pmw package for Python 3 compatibility
Fix in Makefile linking which gave priority to .a over .so files, leading to some unexpected crashes under some specific conditions
Fixed and stabilized several test cases (Currently ~20/640 are failing)
JAR files targets in ACS Makefile are now creating artifacts in M2 repository with the 'install' command
- A new command 'deploy_all' was added to ACS Makefile, which is intended to deploy artifacts to a remote repository

Addressed JIRA tickets

Jira

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