Update `TypeExcludeFilter` to exclude `groovy.lang.MetaClass`.

Closes gh-16981

* pr/16892:
  Polish "Allow Tomcat be destroyed regardless of exceptions"
  Allow Tomcat be destroyed regardless of exceptions

See gh-16892

Update `TomcatWebServer` so that lifecycle exceptions are silently
swallowed when attempting shutdown. Prior to this commit it was
possible that a Tomcat instance might not be properly destroyed and
could leave non daemon threads running, which prevent the JVM from
exiting.

Fixes gh-16892

* pr/16944:
  Add Nexmo to list of third-party starters

Closes gh-16944

* pr/16946:
  Use a regex that captures numbers and qualifiers

Fix the regular expression used in the devtools documentation to
include a version number pattern.

Closes gh-16946

* pr/16889:
  Polish "Fix NoClassDefFound when missing Spring Security"
  Fix NoClassDefFound when missing Spring Security

See gh-16889

Update Spring Session auto-configuration to ensure that the
`DefaultCookieSerializer` doesn't break when Spring Security is not
present on the classpath.

Closes gh-16889

See https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/23038.

* pr/16971:
  Polish "Fix Spring Data Cassandra auto-configure condition"
  Fix Spring Data Cassandra auto-configure condition

See gh-16971

Update `CassandraDataAutoConfiguration` do that it's only applied when
a `Cluster` bean is found.

Fixes gh-16971

Update the forward merge script to add an additional new line when
rewiring the commit message. Prior this this commit, if an additional
line immediately followed the "Fixes ... in ..." pattern it would be
appended to the end of the rewritten fixes line.

Closes gh-16861

* pr/16974:
  Use actual resolvedType when checking Binder cache

Update `JavaBeanBinder` so that the `isOfDifferentType` method checks
both the actual type and the resolved type. Prior to this commit, it
was possible that when `canCallGetValue` is `true` the `resolvedType`
could be different from `type.resolve`.

Closes gh-16974

Closes gh-16978

* gh-16938:
  Correct name and description of spring-boot-project module

Closes gh-16938

This commit corrects the Maven project name and description of spring-boot-project to
avoid the already used name "Spring Boot Build".

See gh-16938

See gh-16962

See gh-16961

Fixes gh-16811

Closes gh-16909

Closes gh-16863

Closes gh-16934

This reverts commit 66fba938.

See gh-16910

Closes gh-16926

Closes gh-16925

See gh-16909

Closes gh-16913

Closes gh-16912

Closes gh-16911

Closes gh-16910