Latest jdk introduced bug that caused our unit tests to fail

for reference:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53010200/maven-surefire-could-not-find-forkedbooter-class/53016532#53016532
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50661648/spring-boot-fails-to-run-maven-surefire-plugin-classnotfoundexception-org-apache

enabled an automatic merge when the pipeline for 16ab11d3 succeeds

merged

mentioned in commit f84afca1