KRACOEUS-7092: rice upgrade
KRACOEUS-7092: plugin upgrade
KRACOEUS-7092: upgrading a dependency, cleaning up a couple maven warnings, migrating  imports to commons-lang3
KRACOEUS-7092: fixing maven requirement
Merge pull request #81 from leoherbie/rice_upgrade_2.4.0-M5-r45327

KRACOEUS-7092: Rice upgrade 2.4.0 m5 r45327