Internal changes & Bugfixes * Bumped dependencies. * Fixed unsubscribe not working correctly in some cases, causing duplicate messages. * Fixed "connection closed" database errors in MQTT service due to overly long living persistence manager. * Introduced [entityType][create/update/delete] roles for the fine-grained auth system. * [BUS] Fixed bus message decoding failing on unknown properties.

Version 2.8.0

New Features * Implemented fine-grained authorisation on MQTT topics, meaning a user subscribing on v1.1/Observations will only receive notifications for Observations they are allowed to see. * Implemented #2318: Added support for GZip and deflate compression on HTTP Uploads. * Implemented V2 API with HTTP and MQTT bindings, including request/response over MQTT 5. This feature was funded by BRGM (http://www.brgm.eu/), French PEPR OneWater - Eau Bien Commun (https://www.onewater.fr/en, ANR-22-PEXO-0009, under the Future Program France 2030) and test from Water4All Partnership members (https://www.water4all-partnership.eu/) * Implemented handling of nested complex properties.

Internal changes & Bugfixes * Fixed non-validated query in some MQTT subscriptions. * Declared bouncycastle as direct dependency. * Fixed prefer-header not working in batch requests. * Improved model editor: * Ensure main tables are generated before link tables. * Check key types are known when generating link tables. * Allow both ISO Strings and Objects with start/end for time values and intervals. * Fixed #2304: Nextlinks with not causing exception.