Joda-time version upgrade

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Hello :wave:
I would like to ask, if there is a planned upgrade to the used joda-time library? I see that in the latest version and several versions before that in Camunda, it is used joda-time version 2.1, which is from February 2012 - 9-10 years from now.
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.camunda.bpm/camunda-bom/7.16.0
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/joda-time/joda-time

Or maybe use Java 8’s new date and time API from java.time.* packages. Since it is basically the same as joda-time.

The reason why I am asking is because, we have this in our build.gradle file:

...
  dependencyManagement {
    imports {
      mavenBom('org.camunda.bpm:camunda-bom:7.15.0') {
        bomProperty 'version.joda-time', '2.10.6'
      }
    }
...

In one of our sub-modules, for some reason, Gradle chooses the lower version, 2.1, which comes from your bom and modules, over our used version of joda-time 2.10.6, which is unexpected and maybe a Gradle problem. But the fact remains, that 2.1 is a very old version and needs to be taken care of at some point.

Thank you for your time!
Petar

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