Closes gh-25199

Closes gh-25198

Closes gh-25197

Closes gh-25196

Closes gh-25195

Closes gh-25194

Closes gh-25193

Closes gh-25192

Closes gh-25191

Closes gh-25190

Closes gh-25189

Fixes gh-25138

Previously, CommandLineInvoker would use the first -bin.zip file found
in build/distributions. If this directory contained multiple zips from
building different versions of Spring Boot, this could result in the
tests being run against the wrong version of the CLI.

This commit updates CommandLineInvoker look for a specific zip in
build/distributions, using the version from gradle.properties to
identify it.

Closes gh-25179

* gh-25178:
  Polish "Remove duplicate declaration of jackson-databind"
  Remove duplicate declaration of jackson-databind

Closes gh-25178

See gh-25178

See gh-25178

Fixes gh-25172

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