1.12.0

⚠️ Important changes (maintenance release):

• Now fully compatible with AGP 9 and upcoming Android 17
• minSdk had to bumped to 23 (introduced by AndroidX Camera 1.5.0)
• compileSdk was bumped to 36
• This library now targets Java 17
• Ship official Firebase R8 rules to support strictFullModeForKeepRules

Update dependencies:

• CameraX 1.6.1
• Kotlin 2.3.21
• Appcompat 1.7.1 (currently still required and also transitive dependency of MlKit)
• AndroidX Core 1.18.0
• Junit 6.1.0

Update Plugins:

• Android Gradle 9.2.1
• Detekt 2.0.0-alpha.3
• Dokka 2.2.0

Update Tools:

• Gradle 9.5.1
• Android SDK build tools 36.1.0

Update docs:

• Add section about publishing to CONTRIBUTING.md

Misc:

• Update GitHub workflow actions
• Fix sourcesJar upload