Fixes gh-24966

Closes gh-25148

* pr/25130:
  Polish "Validate Cassandra defaults"
  Validate Cassandra defaults

Closes gh-25130

See gh-25130

See gh-25130

Remove the registry mirror since it causes oci-build-task to fail.

See gh-25135

Closes gh-25159

Closes gh-25155

Closes gh-25156

Closes gh-25154

* pr/25120:
  Upgrade to Gradle Enterprise Gradle Plugin 3.5.2

Closes gh-25120

See gh-25120

Fixes gh-25132

* pr/25116:
  Fix build deprecation warnings about duplicate jar entries

Closes gh-25116

See gh-25116

Closes gh-25117

Closes gh-25074

Update `spring-boot-maven-plugin` `settings.xml` so that milestone and
snapshot dependencies can be resolved.

See gh-23936

See gh-23936

Use the dependencies BOM to ensure versions used in the `MavenBuild`
test class are always aligned.

Closes gh-23936

Update `build.gradle` files to ensure that `junit-platform-launcher` is
a `testRuntimeOnly` dependency. This ensures that tests can be run from
Eclipse.

Closes gh-25074

Fixes gh-24149

Since 2.3.8 and 2.4.2 the format includes the directory.

Closes gh-24856

Update reference docs to make it clearer when the square bracket map
binding notation should be used.

Closes gh-23390

Update documentation to make it clearer that Spring MVC does not use the
`ApplicationConversionService` unless configured explicitly.

Closes gh-22718

* gh-25048:
  Fix duplicate anchor id

Closes gh-25048

See gh-25048

Update the "Logging" reference documentation with a section about
shutting down the logging system.

Closes gh-24507

* pr/25012:
  Document missing code to run Gradle bootRun task

Closes gh-25012

See gh-25012

* pr/24982:
  Polish 'Add note about exploded jars and banner properties'
  Add note about exploded jars and banner properties

Closes gh-24982

See gh-24982

Add a note to the "Customizing the Banner" explaining that you need
to be using the `JarLauncher` to use the `application.*` properties.

See gh-24982

* pr/24336:
  Polish 'Add a tip about actuator endpoints'
  Add a tip about actuator endpoints

Closes gh-24336

See gh-24336

Update the "Externalized Configuration" section with a tip that about
the actuator `env` and `configprops` endpoints.

See gh-24336

Closes gh-25028

Closes gh-25013