BE: Chore: Bump Spring Boot to 3.5.3 (#1143)

Co-authored-by: German Osin <german.osin@gmail.com>

Author: yeikel

api/build.gradle

@@ -53,15 +53,13 @@ dependencies {
         exclude group: 'io.projectreactor.ipc', module: 'reactor-netty'
     }
 
-    runtimeOnly libs.micrometer.registry.prometheus
+    runtimeOnly(libs.micrometer.registry.prometheus) {
+        exclude group: 'com.google.protobuf', module: 'protobuf-java' because("Micrometer uses protobuf-java 4.x, which is incompatible with protobuf-java 3.x used by various dependencies of this project. See https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/issues/1431")
+    }
 
     // CVE Fixes
     implementation libs.apache.commons.compress
     implementation libs.okhttp3.logging.intercepter
-    implementation libs.json.smart
-    implementation libs.netty.common
-    implementation libs.netty.handler
-    implementation libs.spring.context
 
     implementation libs.modelcontextprotocol.spring.webflux
     implementation libs.victools.jsonschema.generator

gradle/libs.versions.toml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [versions]
-spring-boot = '3.4.5'
+spring-boot = '3.5.3'
 
 aws-msk-auth = '2.3.0'
 azure-identity = '1.15.4'
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ lombok = '1.18.34'
 odd-oddrn-generator = '0.1.17'
 odd-oddrn-client = '0.1.41'
 cel = '0.3.0'
-junit = '5.11.2'
+# This version should be compatible with the version used by spring-boot-starter-test to avoid conflicts
+# See https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/b6b570ebebb6ea233e00af5e554adcf40256f224/gradle.properties#L16C21-L16C27
+junit = '5.12.2'
 mockito = '5.16.0'
 okhttp3 = '4.12.0'
 testcontainers = '1.20.6'
@@ -126,12 +128,6 @@ aspectj = { module = 'org.aspectj:aspectjweaver', version.ref = 'aspectj' }
 bonigarcia-webdrivermanager = { module = 'io.github.bonigarcia:webdrivermanager', version.ref = 'bonigarcia-webdrivermanager' }
 netty-resolver-dns-native = { module = 'io.netty:netty-resolver-dns-native-macos' }
 
-# CVE fixes
-json-smart = { module = 'net.minidev:json-smart', version = '2.5.2' }
-netty-common = { module = 'io.netty:netty-common', version.ref = 'netty' }
-netty-handler = { module = 'io.netty:netty-handler', version.ref = 'netty' }
-spring-context = { module = 'org.springframework:spring-context', version = '6.2.7' }
-
 # test scope
 bouncycastle-bcpkix = { module = 'org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk18on', version = '1.80' }