Nitrite Database Files

New Changes

• Support for interface entity types with EntityDecorator [#1183]
• Fixed NearFilter to support geodesic distance for geographic coordinates [#1185]
• Added GeoPoint class for explicit geographic coordinate support
• Created GeoNearFilter for geodesic distance queries
• Implements two-pass query execution to eliminate false positives from bounding box approximation
• Added comprehensive test suite for geographic coordinate support
• Upgraded Jackson to version 3 [#1221]
• Build now targets JUnit 6 and requires Java 17 to build/test, while keeping Java 11 bytecode compatibility for the published artifacts [#1179]

Performance Improvements

• Optimized index scans for multi-bound range queries (e.g. gt combined with lt on the same field)
• Added covered-count optimization so size()/count() is answered directly from index scans and plain full scans without fetching and deserializing every matching document

Issue Fixes

• Fix in/notIn filters not using the index while querying a collection [#1258]
• Fix record ID match for legacy string keys in OR clause [#1246]
• Fix OR filters returning duplicate documents when using multiple indexes [#1184]
• Fix inconsistent numeric filtering across types with indexes [#1175]
• Fix elemMatch queries to use array field indexes [#1174]
• Fix native-image build: initialize JUnit MethodSegmentResolver at runtime [#1189]

Maintenance

• Bumped production and development dependencies across the project (grouped Dependabot updates)