7.0.0-alpha.1

WARNING: This release updates the minimum required JVM version to 17 and Kotlin to 1.7.21

Major Changes

• feat: add and use graphiql as default for browser IDE (#1623 #1641) @samuelAndalon
• [build] update to kotlin 1.7.21 (#1627) @samuelAndalon
• update to SpringBoot 3 and Java 17 (#1638) @dariuszkuc

Minor Changes

• feat: add missing async leafs use case to sync exhaustion (#1612) @samuelAndalon
• feat: add graphiql explorer plugin (#1624) @samuelAndalon
• feat: add explorer and exporter plugins (#1626) @samuelAndalon
• plugin: allow configuring streamed response for introspection task/mojo (#1639) @dariuszkuc
• feat: config property to print schema (#1641) @samuelAndalon

Other Changes

• misc doc cleanup/updates (#1603 #1605 #1616 #1619 #1620 #1621 #1622 #1629 #1646)
• build updates
  • migrate build to version catalog (#1630) @dariuszkuc
  • [build] add Apollo Federation Subgraph Compatibility tests (#1628 #1632 #1637) @dariuszkuc
  • build: migrate to use buildSrc and convention plugins (#1633) @dariuszkuc
  • build: use typesafe project accessors (#1635) @dariuszkuc
  • Bump Gradle to 7.6 (#1648) @martinbonnin
  • migrate Gradle plugin IT to a composite build (#1654 #1656 #1657 #1658 #1659)
• dependency updates
  • chore: update federation-jvm version to 2.2.0 (#1634) @samuelAndalon