3.0.0-RC8 release preparations

[akarnokd]

Version 3.0.0-RC8 - January 19, 2020 (Maven)

JavaDocs

This is an early release for 3.0.0 to allow preparations for the breaking API changes and cleanups. Please check out the wiki page What's different in 3.0 from time to time for the details and migration guide.

API changes

• Remove fromFuture(..., Scheduler) overloads. (3.x: Remove fromFuture(..., Scheduler) overloads #6814)
• Remove a pointless concatMapIterable overload. (3.x: Remove a pointless Observable.concatMapIterable overload #6837)
• Rename to combineLatestArrayDelayError. (3.x: Rename to combineLatestArrayDelayError #6838)
• Remove Maybe.onExceptionResumeNext. (3.x: Remove Maybe.onExceptionResumeNext #6844)

Bugfixes

• Fix Flowable.flatMap not canceling the inner sources on outer error. (3.x: Fix Flowable.flatMap not canceling the inner sources on outer error #6826)

Documentation enhancements

• Prettify Flowable JavaDocs + validator. (3.x: Prettify Flowable javadoc + validator #6806)
• Improve JavaDocs of Completable and some others. (3.x: Improve Javadocs of Completable and some others #6809)
• Improve JavaDocs of Single (3.x: Improve Javadocs of Single #6812)
• Improve JavaDocs of Maybe (3.x: Improve JavaDocs of Maybe #6815)
• Improve JavaDocs of Observable and fix similar issues elsewhere (3.x: Improve JavaDocs of Observable and fix similar issues elsewhere #6831)
• Cleanup JavaDocs for parameter validation all around. (3.x: Cleanup javadoc for parameter validation all around #6835)
• Improve wording of operators. (3.x: Improve wording of operators #6843)
• Add operator matrix wiki + auto-extractor. (3.x: Add operator matrix wiki + auto-extractor #6845)
• Simplify @return sentences in JavaDocs (3.x: Simplify @return sentences in Flowable JavaDocs #6847)

Other changes

• Bump junit from 4.12 to 4.13 (Bump junit from 4.12 to 4.13 #6810)
• Enable javac parameter saving in class files. (3.x: enable javac parameter saving in class files #6839)
• Bump build-info-extractor-gradle from 4.12.0 to 4.13.0 (Bump build-info-extractor-gradle from 4.12.0 to 4.13.0 #6808)
• Add nullability annotations to type arguments. (3.x: Add nullability annotations to type arguments #6840)
• Deleted unnecessary NPE tests. (Deleted unnecessary NPE tests #6846)
• Add Official Gradle Wrapper Validation GitHub Action. (Official Gradle Wrapper Validation GitHub Action #6848)

[akarnokd]

Closing via v3.0.0-RC8.