Full suite of plugin updates! v1.4.0-beta

Because of how much is in this update, this is marked as a BETA release. There probably are a few bugs. Please report any issues you see via Discord or issues on GitHub.

As with all major updates, please run READ ALL after installation.

Quick(-ish) Summary:

• AutoUpdater: Is now deprecated. This update's purpose in life is to tell you that. All plugins now include auto-updating logic (courtesy of new functionality built into Observatory Core).
  • You can use the existing version of AutoUpdater to install new versions of the other plugins (as it won't detect they are installed), restart to activate them and then delete the AutoUpdater plugin from your installation.
• Aggregator: Notable update includes:
  • UI improvement -- particularly for non-Windows users. This release uses fully themeable images instead of emoji characters. Also, rendering performance improvements.
  • Rings and Barycentres are now first-class items in the grid.
  • Fixed integration with Evaluator's in-system routing.
  • New integration with Archivist data sharing features.
• Archivist: Major update which adds notification caching and system address caching and leveraging the improved inter-plugin messaging features of Observatory Core to share data with other plugins.
• FleetCommander: A number of minor updates, UI tweaks and small features, plus support for Squadron carriers.
• Helm: A major UI overhaul. The grid is gone! I took a card-based approach (somewhat like FleetCommander) to show various pieces of functionality. This release arrives with 8 cards with more functionality planned for several of them and more cards to come. Existing information/warnings area still there.
• Prospector: Minimal changes here beyond auto-updating. A few bugfixes, etc. You may notice some functionality is now better provided via Helm (like Cargo and recent Prospectors). Expect more changes here soon.
• StatScanner: Minimal changes here. There's a new Earth/Mars Similarity Score record (see also the custom criteria available from fredjk-gh/ObservatoryExtras).

This release introduces a new PluginCommon library (not a plugin!) which is used by all plugins. A lot of shared code and resources have been moved into there. As such, many changes in all the plugins was refactoring out shared code.

See the Full Changelog (although there's a bit of duplication with the Aggregator and Archivist releases since the last release of most plugins): v1.0.3.32704-beta...v1.4.0.26035-beta

More detailed wiki updates coming over the next week or two.