v3.0.0

Java Version: Java SE 14

With this version, we release a complete overhaul of JPlag. Note that this includes breaking changes with previous versions!

This update introduces the following features:

• a Java API for third-party integration
• a simplified and improved command-line interface
• support for Java files containing new language features
• improved colors for source codes matches in the report
• a parallel comparison mode, which allows fast comparison of large submission sets
• fixes regarding file encoding (some older language frontends might still have some issues)
• many minor bugfixes and performance optimizations

The following features are currently not supported:

• result clustering
• comparison based on maximum similarity

The following features are permanently discontinued (and removed from the project):

• the comparison modes experimental, external, special, and revision.
• the deprecated web service
• the legacy java frontends

New Contributors:

• @krusche made their first contribution in #89
• @philippbauch made their first contribution in #89
• @JLLeitschuh made their first contribution in #78
• @Alberth289346 made their first contribution in #85
• @tsaglam made their first contribution in #94
• @dfuchss made their first contribution in #93
• @sebinside made their first contribution in #137
• @Strohgelaender made their first contribution in #154
• @dogayalcin made their first contribution in #235
• @dependabot made their first contribution in #90

For development details see the milestone v3.0.0.
Full Changelog: v2.12.1-SNAPSHOT...v3.0.0-SNAPSHOT