Description

I've observed that many dependencies in our build.gradle and settings.gradle files have hard-coded version numbers. To streamline the process of managing these versions, this PR consolidates all the dependencies in one easy-to-access file.

Test Instructions using the Gradle build command:

1. Run the ./gradlew clean --refresh-dependencies build command and verify that not only does this command pull all of the new dependencies but it also builds the entire application without any issues.

Test Instructions using the RPM/Debian file:

1. Another way to confirm that these changes are good is by building an RPM and installing then running the HIRS-ACA service (building the RPM requires building and assembling all the artifacts and running the ACA service locally).

2. Stop the current HIRS-ACA runing on your device (assuming you already have one running)

sudo systemctl stop hirs-aca

3. Get rid of the old HIRS-ACA service:

On Rhel Linux distros:

sudo dnf remove  HIRS_AttestationCA.x86_64

or on a Debian-based Linux distribution:

sudo  apt remove HIRS_AttestationCA.x86_64

5. Go to your HIRs repo and checkout this branch,:

cd HIRS/

git pull

git checkout https://github.com/nsacyber/HIRS/tree/v3_issue_863-write-dependencies-version-numbers-in-gradleproperties-file

7. Create a RPM/Debian file:

On Rhel-based distros:

./gradlew clean buildRPM

On Debian-based distros:

./gradlew clean buildDeb

8. Install the service:

On Rhel-based distros:

sudo dnf install HIRS*rpm

On Debian-based distros:

sudo dnf install HIRS*deb

9. Go to the HIRS website and verify that it all works fine.

https://localhost:8443/

Summary Of Updates:

• Upgraded Gradle from version 8.3 to version 8.11.1.
• Moved repetitive tasks to the root build.gradle file.
• Upgraded spring-framework-boot plugin from version 3.0.6 to version 3.0.13.
• Upgraded spring-dependency-management plugin from version 1.1.0 to version 1.1.7.
• Upgraded ospackage plugin from version 11.4.0 to version 11.10.0.
• Upgraded spotbugs plugin from version 6.0.4 to version 6.0.13.
• Upgraded gradle-jaxb plugin from version 5.1.0 to version 7.0.1.
• Deleted unused dependencies and/or replaced dependencies that were already included in a bigger dependency (this was to ensure that we do not have any dependency mismatches).
• Placed all dependencies and dependencies versions in a toml file. Click on the following link for more details on Version Cataloguing: Medium Article on Version Catalog and see the table below to see all the changes:

Dependencies Changes:

(Certain dependencies have been omitted if they have been replaced by one of
the below dependencies or if their versions haven't changed)

Issues this PR addresses:

Closes #863