Update Mend: high confidence minor and patch dependency updates

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
com.google.code.gson:gson	2.8.2 -> 2.8.9
commons-validator:commons-validator (source)	1.6 -> 1.9.0
commons-codec:commons-codec (source)	1.13 -> 1.17.0
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient	4.5.13 -> 4.5.14

By merging this PR, the issue #6 will be automatically resolved and closed:

Severity	CVSS Score	CVE	Reachability
High	7.7	WS-2021-0419
High	7.5	CVE-2022-25647

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Release Notes

google/gson (com.google.code.gson:gson)

v2.8.9

• Make OSGi bundle's dependency on sun.misc optional (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1993).
• Deprecate Gson.excluder() exposing internal Excluder class (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1986).
• Prevent Java deserialization of internal classes (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1991).
• Improve number strategy implementation (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1987).
• Fix LongSerializationPolicy null handling being inconsistent with Gson (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1990).
• Support arbitrary Number implementation for Object and Number deserialization (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1290).
• Bump proguard-maven-plugin from 2.4.0 to 2.5.1 (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1980).
• Don't exclude static local classes (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1969).
• Fix RuntimeTypeAdapterFactory depending on internal Streams class (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1959).
• Improve Maven build (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1964).
• Make dependency on java.sql optional (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1707).

v2.8.8

• Fixed issue with recursive types (https://github.com/google/gson/issues/1390).
• Better behaviour with Java 9+ and Unsafe if there is a security manager (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1712).
• EnumTypeAdapter now works better when ProGuard has obfuscated enum fields (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1495).

v2.8.7

• Fixed ISO8601UtilsTest failing on systems with UTC+X.
• Improved javadoc for JsonStreamParser.
• Updated proguard.cfg (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1693).
• Fixed IllegalStateException in JsonTreeWriter (https://github.com/google/gson/issues/1592).
• Added JsonArray.isEmpty() (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1640).
• Added new test cases (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1638).
• Fixed OSGi metadata generation to work on JavaSE < 9 (https://github.com/google/gson/pull/1603).

v2.8.6

2019-10-04 GitHub Diff

• Added static methods JsonParser.parseString and JsonParser.parseReader and deprecated instance method JsonParser.parse
• Java 9 module-info support

v2.8.5

2018-05-21 GitHub Diff

• Print Gson version while throwing AssertionError and IllegalArgumentException
• Moved utils.VersionUtils class to internal.JavaVersion. This is a potential backward incompatible change from 2.8.4
• Fixed issue https://github.com/google/gson/issues/1310 by supporting Debian Java 9

v2.8.4

2018-05-01 GitHub Diff

• Added a new FieldNamingPolicy, LOWER_CASE_WITH_DOTS that mapps JSON name someFieldName to some.field.name
• Fixed issue https://github.com/google/gson/issues/1305 by removing compile/runtime dependency on sun.misc.Unsafe

v2.8.3

2018-04-27 GitHub Diff

• Added a new API, GsonBuilder.newBuilder() that clones the current builder
• Preserving DateFormatter behavior on JDK 9
• Numerous other bugfixes

apache/commons-codec (commons-codec:commons-codec)

v1.17.0

The Apache Commons Codec component contains encoders and decoders for
various formats such as Base16, Base32, Base64, digest, and Hexadecimal. In addition to these
widely used encoders and decoders, the codec package also maintains a
collection of phonetic encoding utilities.

Feature and fix release. Requires a minimum of Java 8.

v1.16.1

The Apache Commons Codec component contains encoders and decoders for
various formats such as Base16, Base32, Base64, digest, and Hexadecimal. In addition to these
widely used encoders and decoders, the codec package also maintains a
collection of phonetic encoding utilities.

Feature and fix release. Requires a minimum of Java 8.

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