Release 1.8

Release 1.8 contains several improvements, fixes and dependency updates.

Improvements

• Add support for HTTP API cookie parameter (#452, #453) - thanks to @arthurkamwt for contributing
• Add environment variables to tune async init without the need to recompile (#450)

Fixes

• AwsHttpApiV2ProxyHttpServletRequest.getParameterMap returns arrays containing null for empty query params (#427)
• ${} versions in archetypes need escaping otherwise they will be replace directly

Dependencies

• Update Spring dependencies (framework to 5.3.17, boot to 2.6.5, security to 5.6.2)
• Update OWASP dependency checker to 6.5.3
• Explicitly set commons-io version to 2.11.0 to avoid older transitive dependency version (CVE-2021-29425)
• Update Log4J version to 2.17.2
• Move spotbugs plugin config to parent pom
• Update Jackson version to 2.13.2/ 2.13.2.1 (databind) (CVE-2020-36518)
• Update commons-codec version to 1.15