Merge branch 'master' into refactor/PalindromicPartitioning

Author: alxkm

pom.xml

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.4.0</version>
+                <version>3.5.0</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <forkNode implementation="org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.extensions.SurefireForkNodeFactory"/>
                 </configuration>
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.24.0</version>
+                <version>3.25.0</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <printFailingErrors>true</printFailingErrors>
                     <includeTests>true</includeTests>