External dependencies upgrade - Spring Boot 3.4.2 and Spring Cloud 2024.0.0

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Updates external dependencies to align with Spring Boot version 3.4.2 from 3.4.1 and Spring Cloud version 2024.0.0 from 2024.0.0.

Release notes

Sourced from spring-boot releases.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Property metadata for "logging.structured.json.customizer" has incorrect type #43916
• GraylogExtendedLogFormatProperties throws NullPointerException when only 'logging.structured.gelf.host' is specified #43863
• Structured logging properties have no effect in a native image #43862
• Docker Compose support for ClickHouse does not allow an empty password when ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes #43790
• docker compose ps now fails due to unknown --orphans flag with 2.23 or earlier #43717
• Build info timestamp is truncated to seconds #43617
• FileWatcher used for SSL reload does not support symlinks #43604
• BindableRuntimeHintsRegistrar should handle TypeNotPresentException #43600
• CapturedOutput is empty when using Log4J2 StatusLogger #43578
• Spring Boot 3.4 is not compatible with Gson 2.10 #43442
• NoClassDefFoundError when using JUnit to test a Gradle 7.6.x app that depends on spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure but not on org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher #43340

📔 Documentation

• Document that the @ConfigurationProperties annotation processor cannot generate description and defaultValue metadata for external types #43929
• Fix description of management.metrics.graphql.autotime.enabled #43905
• Document 'base64:' prefix support #43835
• Document handling of @Fallback beans in ConditionalOnSingleCandidate's javadoc #43826
• Javadoc of DataSourceBuilder does not reference all supported types #43732
• Update OpenTelemetry section in Supported Monitoring Systems to refer to OTLP instead #43729
• Consistently document the minimum supported versions of Gradle #43725
• Document that system libraries are a reason to customize the builder and switch away from builder-jammy-java-tiny #43716
• Links to the Javadoc of Jakarta Messaging are invalid #43662
• Paragraph HTML tags are rendered as-is in Maven Plugin reference documentation #43623
• Javadoc link for jakarta.xml.bind is invalid #43607
• Documentation still has references to 'layertools' #43605
• Javadoc of ConstructorBinding should not use markdown formatting #43599
• Managed Dependency Coordinates lists Spock and OkHttp dependencies that are not managed #43584

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to ActiveMQ 6.1.5 #43791
• Upgrade to Commons Codec 1.17.2 #43720
• Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.7.7 #43843
• Upgrade to FreeMarker 2.3.34 #43721
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.6.5.Final #43910
• Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.3.2 #43792
• Upgrade to Infinispan 15.0.12.Final #43911
• Upgrade to Jersey 3.1.10 #43793
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.18 #43844
• Upgrade to Lettuce 6.4.2.RELEASE #43609
• Upgrade to Logback 1.5.16 #43715
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.3 #43745
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.4.2 #43746
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.117.Final #43845
• Upgrade to Postgresql 42.7.5 #43846
• Upgrade to Pulsar 3.3.4 #43912
• Upgrade to R2DBC MySQL 1.3.1 #43722
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2024.0.2 #43747
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.2.2 #43748
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2024.1.2 #43749
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.2 #43750
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.3.2 #43751
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.2.2 #43752
• Upgrade to SQLite JDBC 3.47.2.0 #43723

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@arefbehboudi, @dreis2211, @gavarava, @hezean, @izeye, @jxblum, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @nosan, @quaff, and @tmaciejewski

This PR is created by GitHub Actions: https://github.com/Azure/spring-cloud-azure-tools/actions/runs/12941270081

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