Update Gradle to 9.5.1 (#549)

Signed-off-by: Mark S. Lewis <Mark.S.Lewis@outlook.com>

Update Gradle from 9.4.1 to 9.5.0 (#545)

Also updates some dependencies:

- nmcp from 1.4.4 to 1.5.0
- pmd from 7.20.0 to 7.24.0
- grpc from 1.80.0 to 1.81.0
- opentelemetry-grpc-1.6 from 2.26.1-alpha to 2.27.0-alpha

Signed-off-by: Mark S. Lewis <Mark.S.Lewis@outlook.com>

Update Gradle to 9.3.0 and Maven to 3.9.12 (#505)

This change updates both the Gradle wrapper used for the build, and also
the Gradle version bundled in the fabric-javaenv Docker image. Maven is
also updated to 3.9.12 within the Docker image.

Several dependency versions are also updated.

Signed-off-by: Mark S. Lewis <Mark.S.Lewis@outlook.com>

Bump gradle/actions from 4.4.4 to 5.0.0 (#467)

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Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Use JReleaser to publish to new Maven Central API (#380)

Signed-off-by: Mark S. Lewis <Mark.S.Lewis@outlook.com>

Ensure tests wait for microfab to start

Rather than fixed sleep after lauching microfab, watch the container
logs until the "Microfab started" message appears.

Signed-off-by: Mark S. Lewis <Mark.S.Lewis@outlook.com>

Update dependencies to address CVE-2024-7254 (#353)

Also the following dependency changes:

- Remove obsolete JUnit 4.
- Replace com.github.stefanbirkner:system-rules with
  uk.org.webcompere:system-stubs-jupiter since the former appears not to
  work correctly with JUnit 5.
- Update versions following v2.5.3 release.

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Restore Java 8 compatibility (#349)

Build with source and target bytecode compatibility for Java 8. This
allows chaincode implementation code that requires Java 8 compatibility
to compile against the fabric-chaincode-shim package.

Avoid use of mavenLocal() and (deprecated) jcenter() Gradle repositories.

Signed-off-by: Mark S. Lewis <Mark.S.Lewis@outlook.com>

Back-level ledger API integration test dependency (#344)

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Fix image names in Dockerfile (#325)

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