[Runtime] Embed Maven 3.9.6

Author: HannesWell

RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Eclipse m2e - Release notes
 
+## 2.5.1
+
+* 📅 Release Date: _expected_ end February 2024
+
+### Embedded and use Maven 3.9.6
+
+Updated the embedded Maven from version 3.9.5 to 3.9.6; [Maven 3.9.6 Release Notes](https://maven.apache.org/docs/3.9.6/release-notes.html).
+
+
 ## 2.5.0
 
 * 📅 Release Date: 27th November 2023

org.eclipse.m2e.feature/feature.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <feature
       id="org.eclipse.m2e.feature"
       label="%featureName"
-      version="2.4.200.qualifier"
+      version="2.4.300.qualifier"
       provider-name="%providerName"
       plugin="org.eclipse.m2e.core"
       license-feature="org.eclipse.license"

org.eclipse.m2e.feature/forceQualifierUpdate.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 # To force a version qualifier update add the bug here
-Update build-qualifier because maven-runtime version update to Maven 3.9.5
-Update build-qualifier because maven-runtime dropped aether-okhttp-connector
+Update build-qualifier because maven-runtime version update to Maven 3.9.6

org.eclipse.m2e.maven.runtime/pom.xml

@@ -20,19 +20,19 @@
 	</parent>
 
 	<artifactId>org.eclipse.m2e.maven.runtime</artifactId>
-	<version>3.9.500-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>3.9.600-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 
 	<name>M2E Embedded Maven Runtime (includes Incubating components)</name>
 
 	<properties>
 		<!-- maven core version -->
-		<maven-core.version>3.9.5</maven-core.version>
+		<maven-core.version>3.9.6</maven-core.version>
 		<!-- NOTE: When maven-core.version changes, this may impact the versions of the maven-resolver-*
 			jars that export the org.eclipse.aether.* packages in the org.eclipse.m2e.maven.runtime
 			bundle. So make sure the following variable has the value of the maven-resolver-* jars
 			https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=529540 -->
-		<maven-resolver.version>1.9.16</maven-resolver.version>
+		<maven-resolver.version>1.9.18</maven-resolver.version>
 		<apache-commons-codec.version>1.16.0</apache-commons-codec.version><!-- Keep in sync with what maven includes-->
 		<!-- below are m2e-specific addons -->
 		<plexus-build-api.version>0.0.7</plexus-build-api.version>

pom.xml

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
 			<artifactId>org.eclipse.m2e.maven.runtime</artifactId>
-			<version>3.9.500-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>3.9.600-SNAPSHOT</version>
 		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>