3.5.5

🚀 New features and improvements

• Replace runing external process and parsing output with simple ProcessHandle if available (Java9+) (#3252) @olamy
• Pass slf4j context to spawned thread (#3241) @scottrw93
• [SUREFIRE-3239] - allow override of statistics file checksum (#3247) @XN137
• Reduce log level for skipped tests result to info (#3232) @strangelookingnerd

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use PowerShell instead of WMIC for detecting zombie process on Windows (#3258) @jbliznak. Please note if you are using Windows with Java 8 and not PowerShell (you have options to: use Java 9+, install PowerShell or stay on Surefire 3.5.4)
• Properly work with test failures caused during beforeAll phase (#3194) @Frawless

📝 Documentation updates

• Clarify how late placeholder replacement (@{...}) deals with (#3208) @kwin

👻 Maintenance

• Fix Jenkin badges in README (#3254) @slawekjaranowski
• Use JUnit5 in failsafe ITs (#3251) @slawekjaranowski
• Remove long-deprecated unused encoding property from VerifyMojo (#3198) @Tomlincoln
• Add IT and deal with corner cases of handling beforeAll failures (#3200) @Frawless
• Revert PR #3194 that handle beforeAll failures to follow proper contributing rules (#3211) @Frawless

🔧 Build

• Missing many files in the GH Artifacts of CI ex-post. (#3219) @Tibor17

📦 Dependency updates

• Bump org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core from 2.10.4 to 2.11.0 (#3209) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugin-testing:maven-plugin-testing-harness from 3.4.0 to 3.5.1 (#3260) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump parent from 44 to 47 (#3253) @slawekjaranowski
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.16.1 to 3.27.7 in /surefire-its/src/test/resources/surefire-1733-testng (#3246) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.27.6 to 3.27.7 (#3245) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.26 to 1.27 (#3243) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.20.0 to 4.21.0 (#3236) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2 (#3235) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core from 2.17.1 to 2.25.3 in /surefire-its/src/test/resources/surefire-1659-stream-corruption (#3234) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.19.0 to 4.20.0 (#3228) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.18.0 to 4.19.0 (#3224) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.19.0 to 3.20.0 (#3223) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-interpolation from 1.28 to 1.29 (#3221) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-i18n from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 (#3220) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.20.0 to 2.21.0 (#3217) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugin-testing:maven-plugin-testing-harness from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0 (#3214) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 (#3218) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.16.0 to 4.18.0 (#3213) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.24 to 1.26 (#3202) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump jacocoVersion from 0.8.13 to 0.8.14 (#3204) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.27.4 to 3.27.6 (#3183) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.18.0 to 3.19.0 (#3192) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core from 2.10.3 to 2.10.4 (#3180) @dependabot[bot]