Why was org.apache.poi.Version.getReleaseDate() removed in release 5.2.4

Hello

I wanted to upgrade POI from version 5.2.2 to 5.2.5 in one of our local projects. I noticed that the method

org.apache.poi.Version.getReleaseDate()

has been removed starting from release 5.2.4. We use this method as part of a diagnostics feature to get versioning and release date information of libraries that we use.

Assuming that POI adopts Semantic Versioning, this is annoying. For a patch release (5.2.3 -> 5.2.4), I would not assume that a method of its public API gets removed without further notice. The change has neither been documented in the changelog (https://poi.apache.org/changes.html) nor does the relevant SVN commit (https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/trunk/poi/src/main/version/Version.java.template?revision=1910760&view=markup) give a clue on reasons why it has been removed.

Would it be possible to reintroduce this method, please? Note that the build token `@DSTAMP@` used by the project's Gradle build script is also still existing; which poses the question to me why the method has been removed but the Gradle build has not been cleaned up correspondingly (yes, I have checked that as well `@DSTAMP@` is nowhere else used).

Thanks
Thorsten