Dependency updates

Author: rjeberhard

pom.xml

@@ -688,12 +688,12 @@
     <maven-surefire-plugin-version>3.5.0</maven-surefire-plugin-version>
     <maven-checkstyle-plugin-version>3.5.0</maven-checkstyle-plugin-version>
     <maven-release-plugin-version>3.1.1</maven-release-plugin-version>
-    <maven-javadoc-plugin-version>3.10.0</maven-javadoc-plugin-version>
+    <maven-javadoc-plugin-version>3.10.1</maven-javadoc-plugin-version>
     <maven-failsafe-plugin-version>3.5.0</maven-failsafe-plugin-version>
     <maven-dependency-plugin-version>3.8.0</maven-dependency-plugin-version>
     <maven-shade-plugin-version>3.6.0</maven-shade-plugin-version>
     <exec-maven-plugin-version>3.4.1</exec-maven-plugin-version>
-    <checkstyle-version>10.18.1</checkstyle-version>
+    <checkstyle-version>10.18.2</checkstyle-version>
     <directory-maven-version>1.0</directory-maven-version>
     <maven-jxr-plugin-version>3.5.0</maven-jxr-plugin-version>
     <maven-gpg-plugin-version>3.2.7</maven-gpg-plugin-version>
@@ -731,14 +731,14 @@
     <grizzly-version>4.0.2</grizzly-version>
     <jakarta-version>6.1.0</jakarta-version>
     <prometheus-version>0.16.0</prometheus-version>
-    <jackson-version>2.17.2</jackson-version>
-    <jackson-databind-version>2.17.2</jackson-databind-version>
+    <jackson-version>2.18.0</jackson-version>
+    <jackson-databind-version>2.18.0</jackson-databind-version>
     <snakeyaml-version>2.3</snakeyaml-version>
     <gson-version>2.11.0</gson-version>
     <dependency-check-version>10.0.4</dependency-check-version>
     <slf4j-version>2.0.16</slf4j-version>
     <logback-classic-version>1.5.8</logback-classic-version>
-    <protobuf-java-version>3.25.5</protobuf-java-version>
+    <protobuf-java-version>4.28.2</protobuf-java-version>
     <json-smart-version>2.4.11</json-smart-version>
     <nimbus-jose-jwt-version>9.41.2</nimbus-jose-jwt-version>
     <root-generated-swagger>${project.basedir}/src-generated-swagger</root-generated-swagger>