Upgrade Maven dependencies to latest stable releases (#5059)

Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: fmbenhassine <[email protected]>

Author: Copilot

pom.xml

@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@
 
 		<jackson2.version>2.20.0</jackson2.version>
 		<jackson3.version>3.0.1</jackson3.version>
-		<avro.version>1.12.0</avro.version>
-		<gson.version>2.13.1</gson.version>
+		<avro.version>1.12.1</avro.version>
+		<gson.version>2.13.2</gson.version>
 		<hibernate-core.version>7.1.4.Final</hibernate-core.version>
 		<jakarta.annotation-api.version>3.0.0</jakarta.annotation-api.version>
 		<jakarta.mail-api.version>2.1.3</jakarta.mail-api.version>
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 		<hamcrest.version>3.0</hamcrest.version>
 		<assertj.version>3.27.6</assertj.version>
 		<mockito.version>5.20.0</mockito.version>
-		<xmlunit.version>2.10.4</xmlunit.version>
+		<xmlunit.version>2.11.0</xmlunit.version>
 		<commons-io.version>2.20.0</commons-io.version>
 		<commons-dbcp2.version>2.13.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
 		<hsqldb.version>2.7.4</hsqldb.version>
@@ -104,11 +104,11 @@
 		<jakarta.el-api.version>6.0.1</jakarta.el-api.version>
 		<jakarta.el.version>4.0.2</jakarta.el.version>
 		<jakarta.inject-api.version>2.0.1</jakarta.inject-api.version>
-		<jakarta.xml.bind-api.version>4.0.2</jakarta.xml.bind-api.version>
+		<jakarta.xml.bind-api.version>4.0.4</jakarta.xml.bind-api.version>
 		<angus-mail.version>2.0.5</angus-mail.version>
 		<woodstox-core.version>7.1.1</woodstox-core.version>
 		<aspectj.version>1.9.24</aspectj.version>
-		<mysql-connector-j.version>9.4.0</mysql-connector-j.version>
+		<mysql-connector-j.version>9.5.0</mysql-connector-j.version>
 		<mariadb-java-client.version>3.5.6</mariadb-java-client.version>
 		<postgresql.version>42.7.8</postgresql.version>
 		<db2.version>12.1.2.0</db2.version>
@@ -118,29 +118,29 @@
 		<testcontainers.version>1.21.3</testcontainers.version>
 		<testcontainers-redis.version>2.2.4</testcontainers-redis.version>
 		<jsonassert.version>1.5.3</jsonassert.version>
-		<groovy-jsr223.version>4.0.28</groovy-jsr223.version>
-		<nashorn.version>15.6</nashorn.version>
+		<groovy-jsr223.version>4.0.29</groovy-jsr223.version>
+		<nashorn.version>15.7</nashorn.version>
 		<beanshell.version>2.0b6</beanshell.version>
 		<jruby.version>9.4.13.0</jruby.version>
 		<lettuce.version>6.8.1.RELEASE</lettuce.version>
 		<jedis.version>7.0.0</jedis.version>
 
 		<!-- samples dependencies -->
 		<spring-rabbit.version>${spring-amqp.version}</spring-rabbit.version>
-		<quartz.version>2.5.0</quartz.version>
-		<prometheus-metrics-exporter-pushgateway>1.4.1</prometheus-metrics-exporter-pushgateway>
-		<groovy.version>3.0.22</groovy.version> <!-- change to org.apache.groovy:groovy + update to latest -->
+		<quartz.version>2.5.1</quartz.version>
+		<prometheus-metrics-exporter-pushgateway>1.4.2</prometheus-metrics-exporter-pushgateway>
+		<groovy.version>3.0.25</groovy.version> <!-- change to org.apache.groovy:groovy + update to latest -->
 
 		<!-- documentation dependencies -->
 		<io.spring.maven.antora-version>0.0.4</io.spring.maven.antora-version>
 
 		<!-- plugin versions -->
 		<maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.14.0</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
-		<maven-surefire-plugin.version>3.5.3</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
-		<maven-failsafe-plugin.version>3.5.3</maven-failsafe-plugin.version>
-		<maven-javadoc-plugin.version>3.11.3</maven-javadoc-plugin.version>
+		<maven-surefire-plugin.version>3.5.4</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
+		<maven-failsafe-plugin.version>3.5.4</maven-failsafe-plugin.version>
+		<maven-javadoc-plugin.version>3.12.0</maven-javadoc-plugin.version>
 		<maven-source-plugin.version>3.3.1</maven-source-plugin.version>
-		<flatten-maven-plugin.version>1.7.2</flatten-maven-plugin.version>
+		<flatten-maven-plugin.version>1.7.3</flatten-maven-plugin.version>
 		<maven-deploy-plugin.version>3.1.4</maven-deploy-plugin.version>
 		<maven-assembly-plugin.version>3.7.1</maven-assembly-plugin.version>
 		<maven-jar-plugin.version>3.4.2</maven-jar-plugin.version>