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This issue causes jeremylong/DependencyCheck#6542.

@veita,
As the above failing tests show, this dependency upgrade causes some versions of Gradle versions to fail.
We need to come up with an alternative solution, since merging this PR will most probably break many pipelines out there.

Sure that the reason for the failure is Jackson version 2.17.0?

Unsupported class file major version 61 points to Java 17. And the class files in https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-databind/2.17.0/jackson-databind-2.17.0.jar all have version 52.0 (Java 1.8).

I believe so @veita.
Take a look at the screenshot I attached above. You'll see the jackson package name as part of the error message.

I see Eyal and you're probably right. But I don't understand how the error could relate to Java class file major version 61 when the class files in jackson-databind-2.17.0.jar from Maven Central have version 52.0.

Could it be that the jackson-databind-2.17.0.jar in the test is not the original from Maven Central but something built with Java 17?

@veita @eyalbe4 It's due to forward-incompatible behaviour of Gradle with respect to multi-release jars in its instrumentation attempts for plugins. See gradle/gradle#27156 for all the detail.