Prepare release 5.2.1

Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Ben Hassine <mbenhassine@vmware.com>

Author: fmbenhassine

pom.xml

@@ -61,73 +61,73 @@
 		<java.version>17</java.version>
 
 		<!-- production dependencies -->
-		<spring-framework.version>6.2.0</spring-framework.version>
-		<spring-retry.version>2.0.10</spring-retry.version>
-		<spring-integration.version>6.4.0</spring-integration.version>
-		<micrometer.version>1.14.1</micrometer.version>
+		<spring-framework.version>6.2.1</spring-framework.version>
+		<spring-retry.version>2.0.11</spring-retry.version>
+		<spring-integration.version>6.4.1</spring-integration.version>
+		<micrometer.version>1.14.2</micrometer.version>
 
 		<!-- optional production dependencies -->
-		<spring-data-commons.version>3.4.0</spring-data-commons.version>
-		<spring-data-jpa.version>3.4.0</spring-data-jpa.version>
-		<spring-data-redis.version>3.4.0</spring-data-redis.version>
-		<spring-data-mongodb.version>4.4.0</spring-data-mongodb.version>
-		<spring-kafka.version>3.3.0</spring-kafka.version>
-		<spring-amqp.version>3.2.0</spring-amqp.version>
-		<spring-ldap.version>3.2.8</spring-ldap.version>
+		<spring-data-commons.version>3.4.1</spring-data-commons.version>
+		<spring-data-jpa.version>3.4.1</spring-data-jpa.version>
+		<spring-data-redis.version>3.4.1</spring-data-redis.version>
+		<spring-data-mongodb.version>4.4.1</spring-data-mongodb.version>
+		<spring-kafka.version>3.3.1</spring-kafka.version>
+		<spring-amqp.version>3.2.1</spring-amqp.version>
+		<spring-ldap.version>3.2.9</spring-ldap.version>
 
-		<jackson.version>2.18.0</jackson.version>
+		<jackson.version>2.18.2</jackson.version>
 		<avro.version>1.12.0</avro.version>
 		<gson.version>2.11.0</gson.version>
-		<hibernate-core.version>6.6.0.Final</hibernate-core.version>
+		<hibernate-core.version>6.6.3.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>
 		<jakarta.jms-api.version>3.1.0</jakarta.jms-api.version>
 		<jakarta.validation-api.version>3.1.0</jakarta.validation-api.version>
 		<jakarta.persistence-api.version>3.1.0</jakarta.persistence-api.version>
-		<neo4j-ogm-core.version>4.0.11</neo4j-ogm-core.version>
-		<mongodb-driver.version>5.2.0</mongodb-driver.version>
-		<junit-jupiter.version>5.11.1</junit-jupiter.version>
+		<neo4j-ogm-core.version>4.0.13</neo4j-ogm-core.version>
+		<mongodb-driver.version>5.2.1</mongodb-driver.version>
+		<junit-jupiter.version>5.11.4</junit-jupiter.version>
 
 		<!-- provided dependencies -->
 		<jsr305.version>3.0.2</jsr305.version>
 
 		<!-- test dependencies -->
-		<micrometer-tracing.version>1.4.0</micrometer-tracing.version>
+		<micrometer-tracing.version>1.4.1</micrometer-tracing.version>
 
 		<xstream.version>1.4.20</xstream.version>
 		<junit.version>4.13.2</junit.version>
 		<junit-vintage-engine.version>${junit-jupiter.version}</junit-vintage-engine.version>
 		<hamcrest.version>3.0</hamcrest.version>
 		<assertj.version>3.26.3</assertj.version>
-		<mockito.version>5.14.1</mockito.version>
+		<mockito.version>5.14.2</mockito.version>
 		<xmlunit.version>2.10.0</xmlunit.version>
-		<commons-io.version>2.17.0</commons-io.version>
-		<commons-dbcp2.version>2.12.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
+		<commons-io.version>2.18.0</commons-io.version>
+		<commons-dbcp2.version>2.13.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
 		<slf4j.version>2.0.16</slf4j.version>
-		<hsqldb.version>2.7.3</hsqldb.version>
+		<hsqldb.version>2.7.4</hsqldb.version>
 		<h2.version>2.3.232</h2.version>
-		<sqlite.version>3.46.1.3</sqlite.version>
+		<sqlite.version>3.47.1.0</sqlite.version>
 		<derby.version>10.16.1.1</derby.version> <!-- FIXME build failure with 10.17.1.0 -->
 		<hana.version>2.21.11</hana.version>
-		<artemis.version>2.37.0</artemis.version>
+		<artemis.version>2.38.0</artemis.version>
 		<jaxb-core.version>4.0.5</jaxb-core.version>
-		<log4j.version>2.23.1</log4j.version>
-		<hibernate-validator.version>8.0.1.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
+		<log4j.version>2.24.3</log4j.version>
+		<hibernate-validator.version>8.0.2.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
 		<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>
 		<angus-mail.version>2.0.3</angus-mail.version>
-		<woodstox-core.version>7.0.0</woodstox-core.version>
+		<woodstox-core.version>7.1.0</woodstox-core.version>
 		<aspectj.version>1.9.22.1</aspectj.version>
-		<mysql-connector-j.version>9.0.0</mysql-connector-j.version>
-		<mariadb-java-client.version>3.4.1</mariadb-java-client.version>
+		<mysql-connector-j.version>9.1.0</mysql-connector-j.version>
+		<mariadb-java-client.version>3.5.1</mariadb-java-client.version>
 		<postgresql.version>42.7.4</postgresql.version>
 		<db2.version>11.5.9.0</db2.version>
 		<oracle.version>19.24.0.0</oracle.version>
 		<sqlserver.version>11.2.3.jre17</sqlserver.version>
 		<jtds.version>1.3.1</jtds.version>
-		<testcontainers.version>1.20.1</testcontainers.version>
+		<testcontainers.version>1.20.4</testcontainers.version>
 		<jsonassert.version>1.5.3</jsonassert.version>
 
 		<!-- samples dependencies -->