New release: JPlag v5.0.0

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We just released v5.0.0 of JPlag. This release adds many exciting features and overhauls the report viewer.
Furthermore, we now provide a web-based demo and a page on the Helmholtz RSD.

What's new?

• New language modules (Javascript, Typescript, SCXML, LLVM-IR, EMF-model).
• Normalization mechanisms that improve resilience against obfuscation attacks.
  • Token sequence normalization to counteract statement insertion & reordering (for Java and C++, use --normalize).
  • Subsequence match merging to counteract many obfuscation attacks (use --match-merging).
• Support for Java 21 (including preview feature support).
• Improvements to modeling plagiarism detection (Emfatic view, improved generic model view, normalization via --normalize).
• More resilience regarding different file encodings.
• Cleaner log via progress bars.
• We created a completely reworked and redesigned report viewer, It offers:
  • More features (sort by cluster, graph-style cluster visualization, log scale histogram, etc.).
  • More metrics and information (e.g. similarity per file).
  • A printable comparison view (via the browsers print function)
  • Searchable top comparison list.
  • A dark mode.
  • An optional local-hosted version of the report viewer (use the --mode option).

For more information, see the release notes.
If you have any questions regarding the new release, please feel free to post below.

New Contributors

• @Kr0nox made their first contribution in Move Report Viewer to vite #1029
• @TwoOfTwelve made their first contribution in Feature/file encoding #1026
• @smjonas made their first contribution in Add SCXML language module #1030
• @jazerix made their first contribution in File total tokens added to report output #1036
• @uuqjz made their first contribution in Match merging against obfuscation #1202
• @NiklasHeneka made their first contribution in Add LLVM IR language module #1233
• @olmokramer made their first contribution in Allow passing multiple options in the "Advanced" group #1301
• @nheir made their first contribution in Add universal character names in identifiers to cpp parser #1408

Full Changelog: v4.3.0...v5.0.0