This partitially resolves the error for scoverage (for scala test coverage generation) not being compatible with our Scala set up.

• scala 2.13: 2.13.6 -> 2.13.8
  • Support Java 18 and improve Android compatibility
  • https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.13.7
  • https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.13.8
• scala 2.12: 2.12.14 -> 2.12.15.
  • The -release flag now works with Scala 2.12, backend parallelism can be enabled via -Ybackend-parallelism N and string interpolation is more efficient.
  • https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.12.5
• gradle versions plugin: 0.38.0 -> 0.42.0
  • Minor fixes
  • https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin/releases/tag/v0.40.0
  • https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin/releases/tag/v0.41.0
  • https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin/releases/tag/v0.42.0
• gradle dependency check plugin: 6.1.6 -> 6.5.3
  • Minor fixes
• gradle spotbugs plugin: 4.7.1 -> 5.0.5
  • Fixes and minor improvements
  • There were too many releases to include all the links, include the major version bump
  • https://github.com/spotbugs/spotbugs-gradle-plugin/releases/tag/5.0.0
• gradle scoverage plugin: 5.0.0 -> 7.0.0
  • Support newer Gradle versions and other improvements
  • https://github.com/scoverage/gradle-scoverage/releases/tag/6.0.0
  • https://github.com/scoverage/gradle-scoverage/releases/tag/6.1.0
  • https://github.com/scoverage/gradle-scoverage/releases/tag/7.0.0
• gradle shadow plugin: 7.0.0 -> 7.1.2
  • Support gradle toolchains and security fixes
  • https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/releases/tag/7.1.0
  • https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/releases/tag/7.1.1
  • https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/releases/tag/7.1.2
• bcpkix: 1.66 -> 1.70
  • Several improvements and fixes
  • https://www.bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html
• jline: 3.12.1 -> 3.21.0
  • Various fixes and improvements
• jmh: 1.32 -> 1.34
  • Compiler blackhole enabled by default when using Java 17 and improved gradle incremental compilation
  • https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jmh-dev/2021-August/003355.html
  • https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jmh-dev/2021-December/003406.html
• scalaLogging: 3.9.3 -> 3.9.4
  • Support for Scala 3.0
• jose4j: 0.7.8 -> 0.7.9
  • Minor fixes
• junit: 5.7.1 -> 5.8.2
  • Minor improvements and fixes
  • https://junit.org/junit5/docs/current/release-notes/index.html#release-notes-5.8.0
  • https://junit.org/junit5/docs/current/release-notes/index.html#release-notes-5.8.1
  • https://junit.org/junit5/docs/current/release-notes/index.html#release-notes-5.8.2
• jqwik: 1.5.0 -> 1.6.3
  • Numerous improvements
  • https://github.com/jlink/jqwik/releases/tag/1.6.0
• mavenArtifact: 3.8.1 -> 3.8.4
• mockito: 3.12.4 -> 4.3.1
  • Removed deprecated methods, DoNotMock annotation and minor fixes/improvements
  • https://github.com/mockito/mockito/releases/tag/v4.0.0
  • https://github.com/mockito/mockito/releases/tag/v4.1.0
  • https://github.com/mockito/mockito/releases/tag/v4.2.0
  • https://github.com/mockito/mockito/releases/tag/v4.3.0
• scalaCollectionCompat: 2.4.4 -> 2.6.0
  • Minor fixes
  • https://github.com/scala/scala-collection-compat/releases/tag/v2.5.0
  • https://github.com/scala/scala-collection-compat/releases/tag/v2.6.0
• scalaJava8Compat: 1.0.0 -> 1.0.2
  • Minor changes
• scoverage: 1.4.1 -> 1.4.11
  • Support for newer Scala versions
• slf4j: 1.7.30 -> 1.7.32
  • Minor fixes, 1.7.35 automatically uses reload4j and 1.7.33/1.7.34 cause build failures, so we stick with 1.7.32 for now.
• zstd: 1.5.0-4 -> 1.5.2-1
  • zstd 1.5.2
  • Small refinements and performance improvements
  • https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.1
  • https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.2

Checkstyle, spotBugs and spotless will be upgraded separately as they either require non trivial code changes or they have regressions that affect us.

Reviewers: Manikumar Reddy manikumar.reddy@gmail.com

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