NIFI-15942 - Bump SLF4J to 2.0.18, k8s client to 7.7.0, Commons Config to 2.15.0, and others

[pvillard31]

Summary

NIFI-15942 - Bump SLF4J to 2.0.18, k8s client to 7.7.0, Commons Config to 2.15.0, and others

• Elasticsearch from 9.4.0 to 9.4.1 - https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-java/releases
• MaxmindDB from 4.0.2 to 4.1.0 - https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-java/releases/tag/v4.1.0
• GeoIP2 from 5.0.2 to 5.1.0 - https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-java/releases/tag/v5.1.0
• Hazelcast from 5.6.0 to 5.7.0 - https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.7.0
• Parquet from 1.17.0 to 1.17.1 - https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/releases/tag/apache-parquet-1.17.1
• Jackson Datatype Protobuf from 0.9.18 to 0.10.0 - https://github.com/HubSpot/jackson-datatype-protobuf/releases/tag/jackson-datatype-protobuf-0.10.0
• Wire from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 - https://square.github.io/wire/changelog/
• Clojure from 1.12.4 to 1.12.5 - https://clojure.org/news/2026/05/12/clojure-1-12-5
• FlywayDB from 12.6.0 to 12.6.1 - https://github.com/flyway/flyway/releases/tag/flyway-12.6.1
• AWS SDK BOM from 2.44.4 to 2.44.5 - https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• Apache Commons Configuration from 2.14.0 to 2.15.0 - https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/changes.html#a2.15.0
• Kubernetes Client from 7.6.1 to 7.7.0 - https://github.com/fabric8io/kubernetes-client/releases/tag/v7.7.0
• SLF4J from 2.0.17 to 2.0.18 - https://github.com/qos-ch/slf4j/releases/tag/v_2.0.18
• Swagger from 2.2.49 to 2.2.50 - https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-core/releases/tag/v2.2.50

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Thanks @pvillard31!