Merge branch 'master' into dependabot/maven/com.puppycrawl.tools-checkstyle-13.9.0

Author: namanONcode

.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name: Dependabot Auto-Merge
 
-on: pull_request
+on: pull_request_target
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ jobs:
   dependabot:
     name: Enable Auto-Merge
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]'
+    if: github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'dependabot[bot]'
     steps:
       - name: Dependabot metadata
         id: metadata
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ jobs:
           github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
 
       - name: Enable auto-merge for Dependabot PRs
-        run: gh pr merge --auto --merge "$PR_URL"
+        run: |
+          gh pr review --approve "$PR_URL" || true
+          gh pr merge --auto --merge "$PR_URL"
         env:
           PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
           GH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

pom.xml

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
         <vertx.version>4.5.27</vertx.version>
 
         <!-- Test Dependencies -->
-        <junit.version>5.11.4</junit.version>
+        <junit.version>6.1.2</junit.version>
         <mockito.version>5.23.0</mockito.version>
         <assertj.version>3.27.7</assertj.version>