🚀 New features and improvements

• Augment version range resolution used repositories (#2574) @cstamas

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Deduplicate filtered dependency graph (#2489) @alzimmermsft
• Move ensure in boundaries of project lock (#2470) @cstamas

👻 Maintenance

• [MNGSITE-393] - remove references to Maven 2 (#2438) @elharo
• Update CONTRIBUTING after GitHub issues enabled (#2449) @slawekjaranowski
• Enable Github Issues (3.9.x) (#2414) @Bukama
• [MNG-8763] - Remove name from site bannerLeft (#2419) @slawekjaranowski

🔧 Build

• Pin GitHub action versions by hash (#10898) @slawekjaranowski
• Build the project by JDK 21 as default (#10896) @slawekjaranowski
• Use Maven 3.9.10 for build on GitHub (#2452) @slawekjaranowski

📦 Dependency updates

• Bump resolverVersion from 1.9.23 to 1.9.24 (#2540) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump xmlunitVersion from 2.10.2 to 2.10.3 (#2500) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.maven:maven-parent from 44 to 45 (#2491) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 (#2432) @dependabot[bot]