1.2.0

Bugfixes

• #623 - Fix an error related to incorrect closing the Kafka producer.
• #675 - Decouple from Spark embedded Json4s to fix sporadic classpath conflicts caused by inconsistent versions of Json4s and Jackson libraries provided by different versions and distributions of Spark (e.g. Databrics, EMR etc).
• #652 - Fix a reflection error in ExcelPlugin when reading from hdfs location.
• #700 - A hot fix for the breaking change in Spark internal API introduced as a remediation of the SPARK-43413 (Thank you @uday1409!).

Improvements

• #653 - The application name is now taken from the spark.app.name session configuration parameter, to allow for better customization of the names of jobs, that are executed within the same SparkContext instance (Thank you @uday1409).
• #649 - Developer setup improvement - add SDKMAN! config to automatically switch to the correct Java version required for the project build.