V1.14.2: New Nexus challenge

What's Changed

This new edition packs tons of improvements and one new challenge. Loads of the imrovements are geared towards getting our multi-lang version up and running and to ease the review of its translations.

New content

• generate review instructions for external repo originating MRs by @commjoen in #2730
• Enhance external PR test instructions by @commjoen in #2733
• Fix #1115: optimize table rendering, cache score, purge/minify css/js, and enable virtual threads by @bhushan4work in #2718
• Add missing remediation guidance to challenge explanations by @commjoen with @Copilot in #2750
• new feature: translation reviewer/previewer as github page by @commjoen in #2752
• update preview instructions by @commjoen in #2753
• Add Open Graph / Twitter social preview card by @astra-intelligence in #2768

Bugfixes

• fix pre-commit by @commjoen in #2720
• fix: use per-challenge CTF answers for challenges 8, 30, 37 and 67 by @bhushan4work in #2721
• Fix for challenge 74 explanation by @commjoen in #2722
• challenge74: lower llama params + k8s resourcing, add injection e2e by @ArksherX in #2724
• fix: replace incorrect "wait 10" commands in k8s setup by @shivam-saini18 in #2731
• docs: clarify challenge count and ranges by @Simranjit8933 in #2735
• updated contributors by @commjoen in #2727
• Fix SpotBugs constructor warning in ChallengeUI by @commjoen with @Copilot in #2738
• fix js issues and update challenge 4 type by @commjoen in #2740
• Adding cloud support for challenge74 by @commjoen in #2739
• RC3: fixing all the cloud deployments by @commjoen in #2769

LCM

• Bump brace-expansion from 1.1.18 to 1.1.21 by @dependabot[bot] in #2716
• Bump brace-expansion from 1.1.18 to 1.1.21 in /src/test/K8s-tests by @dependabot[bot] in #2723
• feat: add challenge 75 with committed Maven settings.xml Nexus credentials by @bhushan4work in #2726
• rc1 of 1.14.2 by @commjoen in #2729
• adding @LittlePrimate, @S3DFX-CYBER, @bhushan4work to translator list by @commjoen in #2741
• Rc2 by @commjoen in #2743
• Translator help: adding golang scripts to create translations faster by @commjoen in #2744
• Update module google.golang.org/grpc to v1.83.1 [SECURITY] by @renovate[bot] in #2746
• Fix precommit items by @commjoen in #2748
• Update module google.golang.org/grpc to v1.83.2 [SECURITY] by @renovate[bot] in #2747
• Update dependency com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-maven-plugin to v3.10.4 by @renovate[bot] in #2754
• Update dependency com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin to v4.10.5.0 - autoclosed by @renovate[bot] in #2755
• Update dependency go to v1.27.2 by @renovate[bot] in #2756
• Update dependency org.linguafranca.pwdb:KeePassJava2 to v2.2.6 by @renovate[bot] in #2757
• Update dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin to v3.6.0 by @renovate[bot] in #2761
• Update aws-java-sdk-v2 monorepo to v2.56.0 by @renovate[bot] in #2760
• Update Dev Container by @renovate[bot] in #2758
• Update dependency OWASP/wrongsecrets-binaries to v0.3.0 by @renovate[bot] in #2762
• Update dependency python to 3.15 by @renovate[bot] in #2763
• Update docker/dockerfile Docker tag to v1.28 by @renovate[bot] in #2765
• Update dependency terraform to v1.16.6 by @renovate[bot] in #2764
• Update spotbugs.version to v4.10.5 by @renovate[bot] in #2759
• Update pre-commit by @renovate[bot] in #2767
• Update go by @renovate[bot] in #2766

New Contributors

• @bhushan4work made their first contribution in #2721
• @ArksherX made their first contribution in #2724
• @shivam-saini18 made their first contribution in #2731
• @Simranjit8933 made their first contribution in #2735
• @astra-intelligence made their first contribution in #2768

Thank you

We would like to thank @bhushan4work , @ArksherX , @shivam-saini18 , @Simranjit8933 , @astra-intelligence , @bendehaan , @commjoen for their hard work on this release

Full Changelog: v1.14.1...v1.14.2