Release M2E 2.1.0

RELEASE_NOTES.md

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 ## 2.1.0
 
-* 📅 Release Date: _expected_ December 2022
+* 📅 Release Date: November 24th 2022
 * All changes: https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/compare/2.0.2...2.1.0
 
+### Automatic configuration updates of Maven projects enabled by default
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+The previously experimental feature of M2E to update Maven projects automatically on configuration changes matured and is now enabled by default.
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+### Performance and memory consumption improvements
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+For large projects the build performance has been improved and the memory consumption has been reduced.
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+### Improved connectors for bnd-maven-plugin and maven-bundle-plugin
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+The connector for the `bnd-maven-plugin` and `maven-bundle-plugin`, which is included into M2E, has been improved to consider the jars specified on the `Bundle-Classpath` of the generated MANIFEST.MF, when updating the Plugins JDT `.classpath`.
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 ### Console support for polyglot Maven projects and projects without Maven nature
 
 The M2E Maven-Console now also supports tracking of so called _polyglot_ Maven-projects. Those are projects that don't have a standard `pom.xml` and whose Maven-model is instead created from another source. One prominent example in the Eclipse world are Eclipse-PDE projects that are build with Tycho(-pomless).