From c5724b3aab9fb6ca25e3ca8c38fb6c8f90803008 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "dependabot[bot]" <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:44:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore: [DevOps] bump the test group with 2 updates

Bumps the test group with 2 updates: [com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson) and [net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy](https://github.com/raphw/byte-buddy).


Updates `com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations` from 2.20 to 2.21
- [Commits](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/commits)

Updates `net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy` from 1.18.3 to 1.18.4
- [Release notes](https://github.com/raphw/byte-buddy/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/raphw/byte-buddy/blob/master/release-notes.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/raphw/byte-buddy/compare/byte-buddy-1.18.3...byte-buddy-1.18.4)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations
  dependency-version: '2.21'
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
  dependency-group: test
- dependency-name: net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy
  dependency-version: 1.18.4
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-patch
  dependency-group: test
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
---
 dependency-bundles/bom/pom.xml | 2 +-
 pom.xml                        | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dependency-bundles/bom/pom.xml b/dependency-bundles/bom/pom.xml
index 9807744ec..ed85346ea 100644
--- a/dependency-bundles/bom/pom.xml
+++ b/dependency-bundles/bom/pom.xml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 		<!-- JSON & XML stuff -->
 		<gson.version>2.13.2</gson.version>
 		<jackson.version>2.20.1</jackson.version>
-		<jackson.annotations.version>2.20</jackson.annotations.version>
+		<jackson.annotations.version>2.21</jackson.annotations.version>
 		<owasp-json-sanitizer.version>1.2.3</owasp-json-sanitizer.version>
 		<!-- end of essential versions -->
 	</properties>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7e077358e..ca7f22678 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 		<!--  Non-essential dependencies  -->
 		<jco-api.version>4.87.9</jco-api.version>
 		<jackson.version>2.20.1</jackson.version>
-		<jackson.annotations.version>2.20</jackson.annotations.version>
+		<jackson.annotations.version>2.21</jackson.annotations.version>
 		<!--  WordUtils used twice in OData generator  -->
 		<json.version>20251224</json.version>
 		<!--  XML used once in SOAP payload deserialisation  -->
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 		<qdox.version>2.2.0</qdox.version>
 		<wiremock.version>3.13.2</wiremock.version>
 		<checkstyle.version>12.3.1</checkstyle.version>
-		<byte-buddy.version>1.18.3</byte-buddy.version>
+		<byte-buddy.version>1.18.4</byte-buddy.version>
 		<snakeyaml.version>2.5</snakeyaml.version>
 		<commons-codec.version>1.20.0</commons-codec.version>
 		<commons-beanutils.version>1.11.0</commons-beanutils.version>