General

• RAT-478 raised the Java language level to 17! We recommend running with Java 21, due to an existing problem in the JDK to generate RAT's Javadoc (tracked via RAT-497).
• RAT-478 introduced the possibility to allow setting default charsets when processing files. We use UTF-8 to read configuration and exclusion definition files instead of the system encoding in pre-0.18 releases.

Maven

• RAT-508 reduced the logging output of exclusion parsers and the exclusion engine. If you want to see these messages run with -X or use the <verbose>true</verbose> option in your pom.xml or -Drat.verbose=true on the command line.

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