Release 1.7

Release 1.7 contains several improvements and dependency updates.

Improvements

• Add support for Lambda Authorizers in combination with Http API 2.0 payload format (#386)
• Change AwsHttpServletRequest constructor to protected to allow extension (#422)
• Jersey startup time improvements (#366)
• Updated sample and archetype maven build files to avoid "The packaging for this project did not assign a file to the build artifact" message (#336)
• fix: asyncInit() code sample (#391)
• fix: form param names must be included in getParameterNames() (#340)
• getServletContextName() must not throw UnsupportedOperationException (#448)

Dependencies

• Update Spring dependencies (framework to 5.3.15, boot to 2.6.3, security to 5.6.1)
• Update Log4J dependency to 2.17.1 (CVE-2021-45105, CVE-2021-44832)
• Update Struts2 dependency to 2.5.29
• Update SLF4J version to 1.7.36
• Minor dependency updates (Jackson, Jersey, Jetty, aws-lambda-java-log4j2, lambda-logging)
• Remove unused jetbrain annotations dependency

Other changes

• Release is now automated through a GitHub action