3.28.0

🚀 New features and improvements

• Bump pmdVersion from 7.16.0 to 7.17.0 (#661) @timpeeters
• Bump pmdVersion from 7.15.0 to 7.16.0 (#652) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump pmdVersion from 7.14.0 to 7.15.0 (#643) @dependabot[bot]

📝 Documentation updates

• Update historical PMD version in docs (#662) @slawekjaranowski
• Document that excludes takes priority over includes (#645) @elharo

👻 Maintenance

• feat: enable prevent branch protection rules (#653) @sparsick
• Add Apache 2.0 LICENSE file (#650) @Ndacyayisenga-droid
• Prefer JDK built-in methods for string joining (#646) @elharo
• [MPMD-412] - More specific catch blocks (#642) @elharo

📦 Dependency updates

• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.8.1 to 3.18.0 in ITs (#648) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump pmdVersion from 7.16.0 to 7.17.0 (#661) @timpeeters
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.18.0 to 3.19.0 (#658) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-resources from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 (#654) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-i18n from 1.0-beta-10 to 1.0.0 (#655) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump pmdVersion from 7.15.0 to 7.16.0 (#652) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.19.0 to 2.20.0 (#651) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.10 to 3.9.11 (#649) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.17.0 to 3.18.0 (#647) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump resolverVersion from 1.9.23 to 1.9.24 (#644) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump pmdVersion from 7.14.0 to 7.15.0 (#643) @dependabot[bot]