4.17.0

• Milestone 4.17.0
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What's Changed

• Prepare for the 4.17 release by @merks in #1733
• Update Tycho to 4.0.8 by @merks in #1735
• Use edge as default browser and use modern help #1736 by @wimjongman in #1737
• Fix label localization for xlsx (#1745) by @speckyspooky in #1746
• Change the method call to set the page margin (#1747) by @speckyspooky in #1748
• Fix the image scaling based on the given dimension (#1750) by @speckyspooky in #1751
• Enhance the image scaling of excel and keep the size of small images (#1752) by @speckyspooky in #1753
• Enhance the image alignment for excel (#1760) by @speckyspooky in #1761
• Update target platform for jasper 9.0.90 by @merks in #1766
• Remove the org.eclipse.birt.designer product from the update site by @merks in #1767
• Enable the birt-runtime-test of birt-runtime and birt-runtime-osgi by @merks in #1768
• Normalize all line separators to linux by @merks in #1769
• Enable the birt-runtime-test of birt-runtime-osgi by @merks in #1772
• Enhance the report designer to provide the excel emitter configuration directly (#1770) by @speckyspooky in #1771
• Remove birt-epp by @merks in #1774
• Cleanup web site and update site references by @merks in #1775
• Improve the source bundle content of the update site by @merks in #1776
• Remove *.product files that are not actually used to build products by @merks in #1777
• Simplify and cleanup the build process by @merks in #1779
• Remove nested jars fop, commons-cli, tidy, and commons-codec by @merks in #1782
• Remove the deprecated security manager and add a JVM-birt system property for activation (#1778) by @speckyspooky in #1780
• Remove console output messages (#1753) by @speckyspooky in #1786
• Enhance the property for the excel emitter (#1787) by @speckyspooky in #1788
• Enhance the designer properties for the excel emitter (part 3, #1770) by @speckyspooky in #1789
• Clean up more unused build infrastructure by @merks in #1791
• Replace org.apache.commons.codec with org.apache.commons.commons-codec by @merks in #1792
• Remove references to non-BIRT bundles from features by @merks in #1794
• Remove unused ant scripts by @merks in #1796
• Fix the index out of bound exception of rank calculation (#1797) by @speckyspooky in #1798
• Change suspicious \ to / in paths in pom.xml ant logic by @merks in #1801
• Reorganization of the excel README.MD to have an alphabetic property order and enhance documentation details by @speckyspooky in #1803
• Change parameter encoding from 8859-1 to UTF-8 (#1800) by @speckyspooky in #1805
• Include website clone in the project setup by @merks in #1807
• Remove commons-codec-1.5.jar: uk.co.spudsoft.birt.emitters.excel.tests by @merks in #1808
• Excel emitter avoid null pointer exception of merged rows with image (#1810) by @speckyspooky in #1811
• Fix html table processor to validate the node type (#1812) by @speckyspooky in #1813
• Show the DataView when a new report is created #1738 by @wimjongman in #1739
• Cleanup unused parts of org.eclipse.birt.releng.birtbuilder by @merks in #1815
• Prune org.eclipse.birt.build to the contents used to build the runtime by @merks in #1816
• Enhance comments, raw types and other small hints to reduce java warnings by @speckyspooky in #1814
• Ensure that org.eclipse.birt.build.ant.PackTask filters out CODESIGN.* by @merks in #1820
• Reduce org.eclipse.birt.engine.runtime content by @merks in #1821
• Improve org.eclipse.birt.engine.runtime content by @merks in #1822
• Enhance the PDF options to provide the control option to include the CIDSet of a font (#1817) by @speckyspooky in #1823
• Switch CrosstabXYLayoutEditPolicy to use TableXYLayoutEditPolicy by @merks in #1826
• Update the target platform to use the new version of derby by @merks in #1829
• Enhance the JDBC Driver Manager to validate all driver supported properies (JDBC-driver, #1825) by @speckyspooky in #1827
• Reduce 3rd party dependencies by @merks in #1830
• Improve java doc and remove warnings of the driver manager (#1825) by @speckyspooky in #1831
• Enhanced JDBC driver manager with configuration based on new JVM parameters (#1832) by @speckyspooky in #1833
• Remove UI dependencies from org.eclipse.birt.osgi.runtime by @merks in #1834
• Ensure that org.apache.axis is in the org.eclipse.birt.engine.runtime by @merks in #1835
• Update the ant script for building the runtime product artifacts by @merks in #1836
• Properly update the index.jsp for the web viewer by @merks in #1837
• Documentation of the JDBC connection property validation by @speckyspooky in #1838
• Remove org.eclipse.birt.jetty.overlay by @merks in #1839
• Enhance java documentation and remove java warnings of HTML2PDF layout by @speckyspooky in #1840
• Improve the description of the README.MD by @speckyspooky in #1842
• Only disable the failing rendering tests for windows by @merks in #1843
• Enhance the designer to add the PDF emitter options like configuration at advanced property register (#1844) by @speckyspooky in #1845
• Adjust the PDF.emitter REAMDME.md and optimized the documentation (#1844) by @speckyspooky in #1846
• Enhance of SVG-converting for PDF based on external resources (#1841) by @speckyspooky in #1857
• Fix the NPE of images without wrapping grid/table (#1855) by @speckyspooky in #1856
• Fix deadlock when POI tried to initialize its logger by @merks in #1859
• Test org.eclipse.birt.axis.utility.UTF8Encoder is used and is correct by @merks in #1860
• Simplify the org.eclipse.birt.engine.runtime product by @merks in #1861
• Fix hidden antidiagonal line of merged cells (#1870) by @speckyspooky in #1871
• Fix the word column width which is larger like 22in (#1867) by @speckyspooky in #1869
• Fix the display of diagonals if the style is unset (#1872) by @speckyspooky in #1873
• Fix the maximum size of a word page and set the size to max value 22in (#1874) by @speckyspooky in #1875
• Enhance the hyperlink text decoration option to enable/disable the default style handling (#1864) by @speckyspooky in #1865
• Enhance JavaScript syntax highlighter (#1882) by @speckyspooky in #1883
• Added java doc comments for JavaScript constants (#1882) by @speckyspooky in #1884
• Enhance the update site to include all all-in-one product features by @merks in #1885
• Improve links in the product definition by @merks in #1886
• Stabilize the 4.17 target platform with long term stable update sites by @merks in #1893
• Add margin handling to the element "Label" (#1895) by @speckyspooky in #1896
• XLSX, fix the user property, new location of configuration fix with "getReportDesignConfiguration()" by @speckyspooky in #1898
• Fix the doubled margin calculation of text elements (foreign text) by @speckyspooky in #1900
• The preview does not work anymore: #1901 by @wimjongman in #1904
• Fix DOCX font size converting issue (#1905) by @speckyspooky in #1906

Full Changelog: 4.16.0...4.17.0