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General fixes
This update includes fixes for the following public issues:
Dexer (D8)- Issue #158502561: Invalid Maven POM file for the desugar_jdk_libs_configuration artifact
- Issue #160905482: Desugaring broken for subclasses of ConcurrentHashMap
- Issue #160909126: coreLibraryDesugaringEnabled seems to break ConcurrentHashMap when using Gson and reflection
- Issue #159275214: [library desugar] Desugar java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone(ZoneId zoneId)
- Issue #162809072: When I change a xml id attribute at Design mode, studio popup and ask changing another id. I click "No(local)" but studio find and change same name id in another files.
- Issue #158128960: AGP 4.0 false positive Instantiatable Lint check if Application extends java class
- Issue #155088391: Can no longer specify layout_height and layout_width in a style
- Issue #162506565: Motion Editor does not support the Release Candidates
- Issue #160351050: Enum inlining uses the "wrong" name sometimes
- Issue #160942326: Runtime errors when using R8 2.0+
- Issue #167704467: Fatal Exception: java.lang.VerifyError
- Issue #160901582: CompilationError during R8 phase when optimizations enabled
- Issue #160769273: ConcurrentModificationException: TreeMap$PrivateEntryIterator.nextEntry