[cross-project-issues-dev] Staging for SimRel 2024-09 M2 is Complete

[Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

    The staging repository content of
    
    
      https://download.eclipse.org/staging/2024-09/
    
    
    has been promoted to the following repository for 2024-09 M2:
    
    
      https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2024-09/202408021000/
    
    
    This is ready for consumption by EPP.
    
    
    It will become visible in the composite as scheduled Friday, August
    2, 2024:

  https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2024-09

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We have set a new "high" bar for the lowest number of duplicates ever

It's depressing to see two versions of guava.  Some folks (you and I know who you are) continue to include this in their features and then also fail to provide updated contributions.

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I've been actively trying to eliminate 3rd party dependencies that are out-dated and come from dubious sources, i.e., dependencies that will be hard to update should a serious CVE rear its ugly head:

https://github.com/eclipse-simrel/simrel.build/issues/438

This too is proving a daunting tasks where even fixes contributed by PRs lie may dormant for way longer than one might hope.  I can lead a horse to water...