Merge pull request #19 from tvaughan77/master

RE-1721 adding maven-checkstyle-plugin version 2.11 to our list of manag...
DS-1328: Upgrade maven-dependency-plugin to version 2.8

Version 2.8 includes several bug fixes including at least one
(MDEP-124) that eliminates false positive "Used undeclared dependencies"
Merge pull request #20 from oby1/master

DS-1328: Upgrade maven-dependency-plugin to version 2.8
Adding a release note about the dependency version update