📣 borb release notes

This release is a maintenance release.

• FormField elements behave more like LayoutElement now
• Add more SmartArt
• Add automated testing using GitHub actions
• Add Version class to have 1 point of reference for getting version/author/producer information

Usage Statistics

Recently, borb has gone into the early stages of finding a reseller.
This is a very exciting step that I am sure will bring positive things for all of us, both borb and its users.

Understandably, the marketing/sales team would like some data to figure out what our target audience is, where to invest effort and resources, and more.
So I have added UsageStatistics to borb. This class gathers the following data:

• anonymous user ID (This is a randomly generated UUID, it is persisted in the installation directory of borb to ensure consistency between calls)
• city
• country name
• country code
• system platform (the operating system on which borb is running)
• state
• utc time in ms
• version (the version of borb that is running)

These statistics are periodically sent to our server(s). I have done my best to ensure this does not hinder the performance of borb in any way.
I urge to look at the source code of the License package to reassure yourself of the fact that we are gathering only the bare minimum of data.

Nevertheless, I fully understand that you may prefer not to send this information.
You can turn it off by calling UsageStatistics.disable().