New release: JPlag v4.0.0

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With this version, we release a complete overhaul of JPlag. Note that this includes breaking changes with previous versions!

This update introduces the following features:

• A new and re-designed web-based report viewer (https://jplag.github.io/JPlag/)
• Support for new programming languages: Go, Kotlin, R, Scala, Swift, Rust
• Support for a modeling language: EMF metamodels
• Support for Java files containing new language features (Java 17 support)
• An overhauled language module for natural text
• An overhauled language module for C#
• Support for multiple submission directories (root folders)
• Support for old submission directories, which are only checked against for reference
• Support for cluster calculation
• Improved performance due to effective parallelization

The following features are currently not supported:

• visualizing the clustering results in the report viewer

The following features are permanently discontinued (and removed from the project):

• the character language module (use the text language module instead)

New Contributors

• @GabrielL made their first contribution in refactor: move non generic frontend-utils code into their respective frontends #275
• @SimDing made their first contribution in Readd clustering #281
• @cholakov11 made their first contribution in Replace the outdated HTML report generation #192 #287
• @nestabentum made their first contribution in Write Clusters To JSON Report #453
• @robinmaisch made their first contribution in Add R language frontend #455
• @JanWittler made their first contribution in Add ignore rule for .vscode and .antlr directories #554
• @SuyDesignz made their first contribution in End to End Testing (Java) #551
• @SirYwell made their first contribution in Replace ANTLR with CoreNLP in text frontend #622

For development details see the milestone v4.0.0.
Full Changelog: v3.0.0...v4.0.0

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