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Spotbugs Maven Plugin 4.9.4.0

Release is large but mainly rewriting of underlying code. This supports spotbugs 4.9.4, additional details below.

Consumer

• Supporting spotbugs 4.9.4
• Updated all underlying dependencies
• Groovy now at 4.0.28
• Groovydocs now published with release
• Modernize groovy code usage including typing everything, avoiding any usage of groovy 'it' idiom
• Due to how groovy resolves logging, wrap any logging that needs groovy to resolve gstring with check on logger being enabled
• No longer use plexus file resource loader as it was mostly duplicated, its deprecated, and cleaner to directly implement enhancement
• Use objects require non null where appropriate
• Make sure files closed appropriately to prevent leaks
• Fix invalid look at debug flag to determine debug logging by additionally checking info logging instead and log at info
• Fix invalid usage of logging at debug where debug flag should have been used
• Plugin artifact is now a list rather than array
• Various nio updates
• Fix javadoc issues
• Cleanup regex usage for hyperlink to code off reporting
• Do not use 'assert' in code, use correct checks with illegal argument exceptions

Producer

• gha now implements concurrency restrictions to prevent unwanted builds now that github is showing costs associated with runners
• gha now implements timeout at 30 minutes to prevent long running jobs now that github is showing costs associated with runners
• github actions are now pinned to digests to prevent potential supply chain hacks
• renamed codeql.yml to codeql.yaml (all are yaml now)
• maven wrapper is updated to support defects with maven 4 usage since beta-5 was released. Now runner on maven 4.0.0-rc-4 now fully works
• maven wrapper is protected from path transversal issues
• .gitignore updated to ignore .pmd and .groovy directories
• maven wrapper now defaulted to maven 3.9.11
• central badge updated for new central hosting
• Corrected test source directory for groovy in build pom
• Add additional code coverage
• Correct spotbugs version on documentation
• Site now generating again as gmavenplus fixed defect introduced by groovy changes
• renovate set to pin github action digests
• All integration tests updated to more modern groovy usage

• 34c4962 [maven-release-plugin] prepare release spotbugs-maven-plugin-4.9.4.0
• 5ac441b Merge pull request #1145 from hazendaz/cleanup
• 37a8737 [GHA] Move to maven 4.0.0-rc-4 in maven 4 integration test
• bdcaa2c Merge pull request #1144 from hazendaz/cleanup
• a7591e5 Add support for maven 4 mainClass to maven wrapper
• f7ea524 Merge pull request #1143 from spotbugs/renovate/pin-dependencies
• 28706a7 Pin dependencies
• f4cd7d0 Merge pull request #1142 from hazendaz/master
• 0990344 [gha] Run max parallel to 6
• 2da6164 [renovate] Ping github action digests security!
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