• As of this version, Shadow is compiled with Java 8 source and target compatability. This aligns the plugin with the minimum required Java version
  for Gradle 6.0 (https://docs.gradle.org/6.0/release-notes.html).
• Update ASM to 9.0 to support JDK 16.
• Tim Yates, Benedikt Ritter - Enable Configuration Caching for Gradle 6.6+ #591
• Caleb - doc updates #583
• Schalk W. Cronjé - log4j version update for CVE-2020-9488 #590
• Victor Tso - Input stream handling for large projects #587
• Matthew Haughton - Implement Task Configuration Avoidance pattern #597