build(deps): dependency upgrades - a substantial number of them

build.gradle

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.2.3'
+    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.2.4'
     id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.4'
     id 'java'
     id 'jacoco'
-    id 'com.github.kt3k.coveralls' version '2.12.0'
+    id 'com.github.kt3k.coveralls' version '2.12.2'
 }
 
 group = 'systems.boos'
@@ -23,32 +23,32 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf'
 
     // Generate OpenAPI documentation from Javadoc, see https://springdoc.org/#javadoc-support
-    annotationProcessor 'com.github.therapi:therapi-runtime-javadoc-scribe:0.13.0'
-    implementation 'com.github.therapi:therapi-runtime-javadoc:0.13.0'
+    annotationProcessor 'com.github.therapi:therapi-runtime-javadoc-scribe:0.15.0'
+    implementation 'com.github.therapi:therapi-runtime-javadoc:0.15.0'
     implementation 'org.springdoc:springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui:2.4.0'
 
     // adding the Jackson reference automatically allows processing application/xml response bodies
-    implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml:2.13.4'
-    implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr310:2.14.2'
+    implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml:2.14.3'
+    implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr310:2.14.3'
 
     developmentOnly 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools'
 
     testImplementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test') {
         exclude group: "com.vaadin.external.google", module: "android-json"
     }
-    testImplementation 'net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:2.67.0'
+    testImplementation 'net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:2.70.0'
 
     testImplementation 'au.com.dius.pact.consumer:java8:4.1.42'
     testImplementation 'au.com.dius.pact.consumer:junit5:4.6.7'
     testImplementation 'au.com.dius.pact.provider:junit5spring:4.6.7'
 
-    testImplementation 'org.json:json:20220924'
+    testImplementation 'org.json:json:20240303'
     testImplementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-collections4:4.4'
-    testImplementation 'io.cucumber:cucumber-spring:7.10.1'
-    testImplementation 'io.cucumber:cucumber-java:7.10.1'
-    testImplementation 'io.cucumber:cucumber-junit:7.10.1'
-    testImplementation 'org.mock-server:mockserver-netty:5.14.0'
-    testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-inline:5.1.1'
+    testImplementation 'io.cucumber:cucumber-spring:7.16.1'
+    testImplementation 'io.cucumber:cucumber-java:7.16.1'
+    testImplementation 'io.cucumber:cucumber-junit:7.16.1'
+    testImplementation 'org.mock-server:mockserver-netty:5.15.0'
+    testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-inline:5.2.0'
 }
 
 configurations {