[ANN] Release 4.2.RC1

Glad to announce Cayenne 4.2 release candidate. It fixes a few remaining JDK 17 compatibility issues (Gradle, protostuff/ROP). Also a number of bug fixes. Very good chance the next 4.2 release will be "GA".

Full list of bug fixes:

CAY-2711 JDK 17 compatibility
CAY-2728 Add ExtendedType to generate user-friendly exceptions for internally used values
CAY-2630 Prefetched relationships not preserving pending changes
CAY-2697 Read-only cgen template creates mutator methods for to-many relationships
CAY-2724 Duplicating relationship after editing its name
CAY-2727 Modeler: cgen destDir Unix platform path separator
CAY-2729 Unable to use custom templates from a folder at upper level then datamap
CAY-2730 Duplicating lines in a cgen config saved to datamap.xml
CAY-2731 Exception when setting a CLOB on H2 v2.0.202
CAY-2733 Modeler can’t use custom templates set in a datamap
CAY-2734 Improve support for the DECIMAL type
CAY-2736 Can’t use function names as a path in a string-based expression

Cheers,
Andrus