Draft: Release candidate

Release candidate checklist:

• define a release version: 1.5.0
• IP check (Orange contribution: eclipsefdn/emo-team/iplab#13195 (closed), Sejung contribution: eclipsefdn/emo-team/iplab#6858 (closed))
• define a release date
• double check Eclipse release process https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#release
• prepare elements (pre-built jar, etc.)
• create a new release review https://projects.eclipse.org/node/7303/create-release
• ask EMO for project review (email to send)
• wait for EMO approval
• update CHANGELOG with release date and version
• add git tag
• merge

Release notes:

Release Candidate 1.5.0 - 2025-02-xx

Added

• [Semantic Service] Added more "classical" ontologies in the default ontologies repository.

• [SemanticDescriptors] New Semantic Descriptors feature

  • Support for ontology and ontologyRef resources
  • Added associated attributes validationEnable and semanticValidated in
  • Added associated Semantic Validation processing

• [MgmtObj] Added new MgmtObj resources: Battery, Firmware, Memory, Reboot

• [FlexCnt] FlexContainer and FlexContainerInstance feature (contribution from Sejong University) with "SDS-2022-0147R02-Clarify_ambiguous_of_behavior_of_flexContainerInstance" contribution

• [Filtering]

  • Added various filter conditions: createdBefore, createdAfter, modifiedSince, unmodifiedSince, parent labels, child labels, parent resource type, child resource type, attribute, custom attribute, parent attribute, parent custom attribute, child attribute, child custom attribute
  • Added a filterGroup mechanism (fg) to manage conjonctions / disjunctions / recursivity

• [Gitlab] templates for:

  • New feature issues
  • Bugs
  • Merge requests

• Changelog with previous release and unreleased notes

Fixed

• Updated files (readme, contributing, etc.) with new Gitlab links and practices

• [MongoDB persistence]

  • Replaced obsolete mongo-java-driver-3.4.2.jar by mongodb-driver-sync-3.8.2.jar / mongodb-driver-core-3.8.2.jar
  • Added FlexContainerInstance, SemanticDescriptor, Ontology and OntologyRepository

• [SDT AE] Fixed the announcement

• Java version check at launch not working properly (!9 (merged))

• Build issues (!9 (merged))

• Various cleanup & minor bug fixes