Merge branch 'develop' into release/2.9.0

Author: infeo

pom.xml

@@ -18,32 +18,32 @@
 		<maven.compiler.release>21</maven.compiler.release>
 
 		<!-- dependencies -->
-		<cryptolib.version>2.2.0</cryptolib.version>
+		<cryptolib.version>2.2.1</cryptolib.version>
 		<jwt.version>4.5.0</jwt.version>
 		<dagger.version>2.55</dagger.version>
-		<guava.version>33.4.0-jre</guava.version>
+		<guava.version>33.4.8-jre</guava.version>
 		<caffeine.version>3.2.0</caffeine.version>
 		<slf4j.version>2.0.17</slf4j.version>
 
 		<!-- test dependencies -->
-		<junit.jupiter.version>5.12.0</junit.jupiter.version>
+		<junit.jupiter.version>5.12.2</junit.jupiter.version>
 		<jmh.version>1.37</jmh.version>
-		<mockito.version>5.16.0</mockito.version>
+		<mockito.version>5.17.0</mockito.version>
 		<hamcrest.version>3.0</hamcrest.version>
 		<jimfs.version>1.3.0</jimfs.version>
 
 		<!-- build plugin dependencies -->
 		<mvn-compiler.version>3.14.0</mvn-compiler.version>
 		<mvn-dependency.version>3.8.1</mvn-dependency.version>
-		<mvn-surefire.version>3.5.2</mvn-surefire.version>
+		<mvn-surefire.version>3.5.3</mvn-surefire.version>
 		<mvn-jar.version>3.4.2</mvn-jar.version>
 		<mvn-source.version>3.3.1</mvn-source.version>
 		<mvn-javadoc.version>3.11.2</mvn-javadoc.version>
 		<mvn-gpg.version>3.2.7</mvn-gpg.version>
 
-		<dependency-check.version>12.1.0</dependency-check.version>
+		<dependency-check.version>12.1.1</dependency-check.version>
 		<junit-tree-reporter.version>1.4.0</junit-tree-reporter.version>
-		<jacoco.version>0.8.12</jacoco.version>
+		<jacoco.version>0.8.13</jacoco.version>
 		<central-publishing.version>0.7.0</central-publishing.version>
 
 		<!-- Property used by surefire to determine jacoco engine -->
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>jakarta.inject</groupId>
 			<artifactId>jakarta.inject-api</artifactId>
-			<version>2.0.1</version>
+			<version>2.0.1.MR</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>