Enhancements

Core

• Support Java 24 / class file major version 68 (#1364)

Lang

• Improve performance for transitive dependency checks (#1381; thanks to @To6i 👏)

Library

• New GeneralCodingRules.OLD_DATE_AND_TIME_CLASSES_SHOULD_NOT_BE_USED (#1385; thanks to @Bukama 👏)
• Improve GeneralCodingRules.testClassesShouldResideInTheSamePackageAsImplementation to not fail for classes with no tests in their packages (#1368; thanks to @krzysztof-owczarek 👏)

JUnit

• Fix failure when junit.testFilter is used (#1361; thanks to @Sparkymann 👏)
• Enable @AnalyzeClasses annotation to be used as meta annotation (#1300; thanks to @mathze 👏)

Documentation

• Fix user guide describing wrong default behavior of @AnalyzeClasses (#1406)
• Clarify Slices documentation (#1366; thanks to @mipo256 👏)

Internal improvements

• Run tests with JUnit Platform to pave the way to migrate to JUnit 5 (#1294)
• Update Gradle Wrapper from 7.6 to 8.12 (#1392)
• Extend CI to run tests with JDK 21 (#1408)