Internal changes & Bugfixes * Bumped dependencies. * Fixed "connection closed" database errors in MQTT service due to overly long living persistence manager.

Version 2.7.3

Internal changes & Bugfixes * Bumped dependencies. * Fixed unvalidated query in some MQTT subscriptions. * Declared bouncycastle as direct dependency.

Version 2.7.2

Internal changes & Bugfixes * Bumped dependencies. * Reduced bus errors when receiving unknown entity types. This can happen when one instance has a reduced data model.

Version 2.7.1

Internal changes & Bugfixes * Fixed #2304: Nextlinks with not causing exception.

Version 2.7.0

New Features * Sensor and Actuator metadata can now be JSON, and queried as such. * Added optional timezone parameter to datetime functions. These functions only make sense if one can specify the timezone to operate in. * Made query functions pluggable using the interface PluginFunction. * Enabled compression in Tomcat.

Internal changes & Bugfixes * Fixed #2263: Custom Entity Linking Fails with UUID primary keys. * Fixed #2247: GeoJSON format incorrect when location or feature is a full Feature. * Fixed inconsistent model state when database is not ready at startup. * Fixed exception when auto-detecting base url and no path header is set. * Fixed incorrect nullable default in XML-CSDL. * Fixed #2210: issue with Projects Plugin when using String FeatureOfInterest ids. * Changed error when insertion fails due to constraints to 409. * Fixed expand returning null link when target can not be read