Uplink Connections

• Improved cancellation behavior, e.g. when cancelling during tool data upload/download
• Improved behavior and automatic reconnection after connection interruptions
• Improved notifications for failed Uplink/SSH connection attempts
• Added transmission of early RCE version information from client side during SSH login
• Added received early RCE version information to related event log entries on server side
• Prevented SSH/Uplink connections from auto-reconnecting after certain authentication failures
• Prevented SSH/Uplink connections from auto-reconnecting in case of unknown errors

GUI

• Fixed an issue with the "Connect immediately" option in connection dialogs
• Fixed transparency issues with some combo boxes on Ubuntu that led to unreadable entries

Bugfixes

• An issue with the script API that affected the RCE.create_input_file() method when using the Python
  integration has been fixed
• Fixed a bug that prevented the deletion of temporary files generated during the execution of Jython scripts
• Prevented issues with .rce/common folders created without version information
• Command "components list -r" now only lists the remote components as expected

Other Improvements

• Added a CITATION.cff file (see https://github.com/citation-file-format/), making this release
  citable (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17878323)
• Increased the maximum heap space property in the rce.ini file from 2GiB to 4GiB
  This should have no effect on RAM usage unless your RCE instance actually needs that much RAM
• The integration of the Example tool during the generation of the Workflow Examples Project is now
  avoided if another workflow component named "Example" already exists
• Implemented a safeguard that prevents application startup when executing RCE as administrator/root,
  unless explicitly allowed via the new --allow-privileged command line flag.
  You may need to set this flag when running RCE as pseudo-root in rootless containers, e.g. Podman
• Improved documentation in the user guide
• Made build shells scripts more portable by not requiring an installed "zip" command
• Added "-e" flag to the run-unit-tests script to enable "extended" unit tests

Third-party Library Upgrades

• Upgraded activemq to 5.19.1
• Upgraded apache sshd to 2.16.0
• Upgraded bouncycastle to 1.83
• Upgraded commons-exec to 1.5.0
• Upgraded commons-lang3 to 3.20.0
• Upgraded jackson to 2.20.1
• Upgraded mwiede-jsch to 2.27.6

Quality assurance

• Fixed an issue in the BDD test executor that could cause long test sessions to fail with "inotify" errors
• Improved the Uplink crash-and-reconnect BDD test setup
• Improved "repoguard" rules
• The REUSE declarations were updated by splitting the deb5 file into TOML files for each bundle
  to adapt to the REUSE 3.3 specification
• The Checkstyle rules have been updated to match the latest Checkstyle version
• Fixed a unit test that was broken on Windows 11
• Fixed various minor warnings and Checkstyle issues