Preparing to release 3.1.0

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+title: v3.1.0
+type: major
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+
+**Features:**
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+* Support for advanced auditing workflow to easily triage findings
+* Support for external repositories to retrieve additional component metadata from
+* Support for SPDX 3.1 license IDs
+* NVD mirroring support for Dependency-Check (and other) clients
+* Support for out-of-date version detection (rubygems, maven, and npm)
+* Enhanced API to (optionally) autocreate project on bom/scan upload
+* Better support for Dependency-Check "relatedDependencies"
+* Added individual component metrics (independent of dependency metrics)
+* Added per project and per component overview with metrics and refresh support
+* Specific table columns can now be sorted with full pagination support
+* Improved error logging when issues are encountered during BoM and scan processing
+* Enhanced LDAP integration to support strong authentication mechanisms and configurable user formats
+* General performance improvements on multi-core machines
+* Minor enhancements to user interface
+
+**Fixes:**
+* Fixed defect that prevented paginated results on project tag searches
+* Fixed defect affecting GAV identifiers in Dependency-Check Gradle/CLI reports not being in parenthesis
+
+**Upgrade Notes:**
+
+* The VULNERABILITY_ANALYSIS permission was introduced in this release. Existing users that need the 
+ability to audit findings will need this permission added to their account or through their team membership.
+* MySQL now requires ANSI_QUOTES to be added to the SQL mode. Refer to 
+[Database Support]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _docs/getting-started/database-support.md %}) for details.