20240205

Pull Request	Description
#855	Fix JSONArrayTest testRecursiveDepthArrayFor1000Levels()
#846	Cleanup warnings and merge new unit tests
#845	improved annotation search performance
#835	Delete redundant .toString() call in README
#832	Add a config flag to disable whitespace trimming
#831	Refactor NumberConversionUtil and toString() of CookieList & XML Classes
#830	Upgrade json-path's version to 2.4.0 to avoid dependency conflict
#828	Fixed flaky tests in XMLTest.java
#824	Ignore tests that fail due to resource differences
#823	JSON parsing self reference object and array
#820	Close XML tag explicitly for empty tags with configuration
#815	Ensure java 6 compatable
#814	Refactor duplicate code for stringToNumber() in JSONObject, JSONArray, and XML
#812	docs: use syntax highlighting
#808	Fix compiler warnings
#806	Add new deployment pipeline
#803	ci: test with Java 21
#801	Updates the pipeline to validate that packaging a jar works properly
#798	fix: flakiness in org.json.junit.XMLTest#testIndentComplicatedJsonObjectWithArrayAndWithConfig
#794	XML optLong/getLong equivalent updates for string to number conversion.