Update dependencies in pom.xml to latest versions and add validation test for version consistency

- Updated org.jetbrains:annotations from 2.0.10 to 24.1.0
- Updated commons-codec:commons-codec from 2.0.10 to 1.16.0
- Updated com.google.code.gson:gson from 2.0.10 to 2.11.0
- Updated org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime from 2.0.10 to 4.5.14
- Updated maven-surefire-plugin from 2.0.10 to 3.2.5
- Updated central-publishing-maven-plugin from 2.0.10 to 0.8.0
- Updated maven-source-plugin from 2.0.10 to 3.3.0
- Updated maven-javadoc-plugin from 2.0.10 to 3.6.0
- Updated maven-gpg-plugin from 2.0.10 to 3.2.4
- Added PomValidationTest to ensure plugin/dependency versions do not match project version

Author: franciscbalint

zero-bounce-sdk/pom.xml

@@ -47,19 +47,19 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.jetbrains</groupId>
             <artifactId>annotations</artifactId>
-            <version>2.0.10</version>
+            <version>24.1.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
-            <version>2.0.10</version>
+            <version>1.16.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
             <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-            <version>2.0.10</version>
+            <version>2.11.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
-            <version>2.0.10</version>
+            <version>4.5.14</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/junit/junit -->
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.0.10</version>
+                <version>3.2.5</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <argLine>
                         @{argLine} -javaagent:${settings.localRepository}/org/mockito/mockito-core/${mockito.version}/mockito-core-${mockito.version}.jar
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.sonatype.central</groupId>
                         <artifactId>central-publishing-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>2.0.10</version>
+                        <version>0.8.0</version>
                         <extensions>true</extensions>
                         <configuration>
                             <publishingServerId>central</publishingServerId>
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>2.0.10</version>
+                        <version>3.3.0</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>attach-sources</id>
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>2.0.10</version>
+                        <version>3.6.0</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>attach-javadocs</id>
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>2.0.10</version>
+                        <version>3.2.4</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>sign-artifacts</id>

zero-bounce-sdk/src/test/java/com/zerobounce/PomValidationTest.java

@@ -5,18 +5,49 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
 
 /**
  * Validates POM plugin/dependency versions that are easy to misversion (e.g. copy-paste).
  * Fails during {@code mvn test} so issues are caught locally before CI.
+ * (Pattern from Android SDK: project/publish version is separate from plugin/dependency versions.)
  */
 class PomValidationTest {
 
     private static final Pattern JACOCO_VERSION = Pattern.compile("0\\.8\\.\\d+");
 
+    @Test
+    void noPluginOrDependencyVersionMustEqualProjectVersion() throws Exception {
+        File pom = findPom();
+        assertTrue(Files.isRegularFile(pom.toPath()), "pom.xml not found at " + pom.getAbsolutePath());
+        String content = Files.readString(pom.toPath());
+
+        // Project version is the first <version> in the POM (root element).
+        Matcher firstVersion = Pattern.compile("<version>([^<]+)</version>").matcher(content);
+        assertTrue(firstVersion.find(), "No <version> found in pom.xml");
+        String projectVersion = firstVersion.group(1).trim();
+
+        // Collect all other <version> values (after the first).
+        List<String> mistaken = new ArrayList<>();
+        while (firstVersion.find()) {
+            String v = firstVersion.group(1).trim();
+            if (projectVersion.equals(v)) {
+                mistaken.add(v);
+            }
+        }
+        assertTrue(
+                mistaken.isEmpty(),
+                "Plugin/dependency version must not equal project version (" + projectVersion + "). "
+                        + "That copy-paste causes PluginResolutionException (e.g. maven-surefire-plugin has no such version on Maven Central). "
+                        + "Found " + mistaken.size() + " occurrence(s). Use explicit versions per artifact."
+        );
+    }
+
     @Test
     void jacocoMavenPluginVersionMustBe08x() throws Exception {
         File pom = findPom();