fixup: update release please and dependencies

Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <[email protected]>

Author: aepfli

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
         uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 8
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
         uses: actions/setup-java@3a4f6e1af504cf6a31855fa899c6aa5355ba6c12 # v4
         with:
-          java-version: '8'
+          java-version: '17'
           distribution: 'temurin'
           cache: maven
           server-id: ossrh

pom.xml

@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <module-name>${groupId}.${artifactId}</module-name>
-        <io.cucumber.version>7.21.0</io.cucumber.version>
+        <io.cucumber.version>7.21.1</io.cucumber.version>
+        <org.mockito.version>5.2.0</org.mockito.version>
         <javadoc.failOnWarnings>true</javadoc.failOnWarnings>
         <!--  This is required for later correct replacement of surefireArgLine -->
         <!-- see surefire-java8 and surefire-java9+ profiles -->
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@
         </surefireArgLine>
         <skip.tests>false</skip.tests>
         <!-- this will throw an error if we use wrong apis -->
-        <maven.compiler.release>8</maven.compiler.release>
+       <maven.compiler.release>8</maven.compiler.release>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-            <version>5.2.0</version>
+            <version>${org.mockito.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
@@ -174,21 +175,21 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.junit-pioneer</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit-pioneer</artifactId>
-            <version>1.9.1</version>
+            <version>2.3.0</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-junit-jupiter</artifactId>
-            <version>4.11.0</version>
+            <version>5.15.2</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-inline</artifactId>
-            <version>4.11.0</version>
+            <version>${org.mockito.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
@@ -471,7 +472,7 @@
                             <dependency>
                                 <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
                                 <artifactId>spotbugs</artifactId>
-                                <version>4.8.6</version>
+                                <version>4.9.0</version>
                             </dependency>
                         </dependencies>
                         <executions>