Merge branch 'trunk' into renovate/gradle-9.x

Author: diemol

.github/workflows/java-examples.yml

@@ -103,5 +103,5 @@ jobs:
             $new_version = "$major.$next_minor.0-SNAPSHOT"
             Write-Output "Using selenium.version $new_version for tests"
             cd examples/java
-            & mvn -B -U test -D"jdk.internal.httpclient.disableHostnameVerification=true" -Dselenium.version=$new_version
+            mvn -B -U test -D"jdk.internal.httpclient.disableHostnameVerification=true" -D"selenium.version=$new_version"
           }

.github/workflows/link-check.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: '22.17.1'
+          node-version: '22.18.0'
           cache: 'npm'
           # The action defaults to search for the dependency file (package-lock.json,
           # npm-shrinkwrap.json or yarn.lock) in the repository root, and uses its