[VOTE] Releasing Rugged 4.0 from release candidate 1

Rugged development
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This is a VOTE in order to release version 4.0 of the Rugged library.

Version 4.0 is a major release.

Highlights in the 4.0 release are:
  - Updated dependencies to Orekit 13.0.3 (and Hipparchus 4.0.1 )
  - Made Rugged able to deal with seamless DEM tiles (no overlapping constraints).
  - Fixed Duvenhage algorithm for coupled time light correction and non nadir view.
  - Fixed light time correction in atmospheric refraction computation.
  - Created a tutorial about how to initialize a tile updater with a real DEM.
  - Updated link to Malcolm D Shuster's paper about Attitude Representations in documentation.
  - Updated several URLs and mails in documentation (static site, Readme).

The release candidate can be found on the GitLab repository as tag 4.0-RC1 in the release-4.0 branch :

GitLab

The release notes can be read here:

GitLab

Maven artifacts are available here

The votes will be tallied in 120 hours for now, on 2025-07-09T13:00:00Z (this is UTC time)

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+1 for me,

Thanks for the work @Guylaine @luc @sdinot @MaximeJ @yzokras Pierrick Koch

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+1 from me, nice work!

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+1 from me, great!

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+1
Cheers to all!

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Great +1 from me

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This vote passes with +1 from Luc, Clément, Aude, Petrus and myself.

The artifact will be pushed to public repositories.

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