[Jenkins release job] Preparing release 4.0.0-M1

Author: eclipse-validation-bot

pom.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
     <groupId>jakarta.validation</groupId>
     <artifactId>jakarta.validation-api</artifactId>
-    <version>4.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.0.0-M1</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <name>Jakarta Validation API</name>
     <url>https://beanvalidation.org</url>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <project.build.outputTimestamp>2025-06-06T00:00:00Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
+        <project.build.outputTimestamp>2025-10-22T20:15:28Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
 
         <version.java.release>17</version.java.release>
         <!-- Min required JDK/Maven versions for the build: -->