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+Highlights:
+
+We now build test server into native executables!
+WorkflowImplementationOptions.setLocalActivityOptions has been added allowing specification of local activity options on workflow configuration.
+worker_task_slots_available metric was added.
+Some metrics were renamed for consistency across SDKs. Old metric names were deprecated, check io.temporal.worker.MetricsType for reference.
+Release was reworked to include broad ranges of supported dependencies instead of strict versions.
+
+Changeset:
+2022-01-12 - 77a1ff1f - Remove "Resolved versions" dependencies resolution strategy during Nexus publishing (#965)
+2022-01-12 - f0ebbe73 - Expose turning off time skipping for WorkflowRule and WorkflowExtension (#967)
+2022-01-13 - 66f4c5b0 - Fix WorkflowServiceStubsOptions#rpcRetryOptions wiring (#972)
+2022-01-13 - 6710f1ab - Improve WorkflowServiceStubsOptions#setRpcTimeout javadoc (#973)
+2022-01-14 - e768926d - Make GraalVM exe generation part of the build (#974)
+2022-01-16 - ce18af36 - Upgrade protobuf-java-util for CVE-2021-22569 (#980)
+2022-01-18 - 5f8a0d38 - Provide configuration hooks extending usage of standard SDK configuration functionality (#984)
+2022-01-18 - 912e5de8 - Synchronize activity metric names with Core and GoSDK, old names are deprecated (#985)
+2022-01-18 - fd701f89 - Split out temporal-test-server module (#978)
+2022-01-20 - 09695634 - Fix a problem with LocalActivityWorker ignoring initial and maximum intervals (#990)
+2022-01-20 - f835a572 - Remove deprecated name.remal.check-updates plugin (#992)
+2022-01-21 - 73fb0202 - Add Jackson jdk8 support in JacksonJsonPayloadConverter (#993)
+2022-01-21 - daedfd28 - Add Jackson jdk8 support in JacksonJsonPayloadConverter (#994)
+2022-01-23 - d92db251 - Refactor and cleanup Worker metrics classes structure (#987)
+2022-01-24 - 5c9a51b3 - Expose WorkflowInfo.getCronSchedule (#996)
+2022-01-24 - 8bc83da8 - Introduce GH actions for native-image builds (#1000)
+2022-01-24 - bcb564ec - Add worker_task_slots_available metric and worker_type tag (#997)
+2022-01-24 - ead55bd5 - Add WorkflowImplementationOptions.setLocalActivityOptions (#975) (#1001)
+2022-01-25 - 6c833b4b - Polish #1001 (#1003)
+2022-01-25 - 7dc05bb8 - Workflow input arguments should be strings (#1002)
+2022-01-26 - 64c14031 - Retain strong references to all Gauges (#1006)
+2022-01-28 - 66bff71d - Prevent Windows 2022 being used for native-images (#1008)
+2022-01-31 - 5b4900a8 - Adds a prep-release workflow (#1018)
+2022-02-01 - 8f92ee22 - Rework slf4j version to a version range (#1021)
+2022-02-01 - ce2da63a - Dependencies upgrade (#1020)