[WIP] v1.7

[jkowalleck]

[!NOTE] WORK IN PROGRESS
see progress: https://github.com/CycloneDX/specification/milestone/8

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Fixed

• XML schema: add type for ComponentData sub-elements (#600 via #601)

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Deprecated

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Changed

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Added

• Support for external components with version-ranges (#321 via #586)

• Support for Streebog hashing algorithm (#485 via #525)

• Support for license expression details and properties (#549, #554 via #599)

• Support for expressing BOM distribution constraints with the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) in metadata (#595 via #604)

• Support for representing patent information (#596 via #597)

• Support for properties on external-references (#608 via #610)

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Documentation

• Elaborated component classification "platform", explicitly expressed that it includes just-in-time compilers and interpreters (#233 via #647)
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Test data

• Add test data for CycloneDX 1.7 XML, JSON, Protobuf

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• fixes #233
• fixes #321
• fixes #485
• fixes #549
• fixes #554
• fixes #595
• fixes #596
• fixes #600
• fixes #608