thought-machine/please v11.4.0

Please v11.4.0

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Please v11.4.0 is ready!

This release comes with the following new set of features:

• Added --run flag to plz watch which invokes the targets using plz run instead of build / test (#272).
• Replace hyphen with underscore in buildenv plzconfig sections (#274)
• Added plz query rules which prints out the currently known set of rules definitions.

Also includes features from previous versions which haven't been announced here yet:

• Support for Java 9 and JEP-220 features: java_module and java_runtime_image can be used to build a standalone Java image using modules.
  New config properties jlinktool and javahome have been added.
• Add support for merging Akka's reference.conf files when building java_library and java_binary targets with akka dependencies
• Add --env flag on plz run that applies config values to the environment (notably PATH)
• python_binary and python_test rules can now import binary modules directly via an import hook that dynamically extracts them as needed. Hence zip_safe is not needed in many cases it was previously.

This is planned to be the last non-patch release in the 11.x series. v12.x is not too far away and will contain major changes & enhancements to the parsing engine.