TIKA-4326: update kafka, remove zookeeper where possible; update byte-buddy

Author: THausherr

tika-parent/pom.xml

@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@
     <juniversalchardet.version>2.5.0</juniversalchardet.version>
     <junrar.version>7.5.5</junrar.version>
     <jwarc.version>0.30.0</jwarc.version>
-    <kafka.version>3.8.1</kafka.version>
+    <kafka.version>3.9.0</kafka.version>
     <libpst.version>0.9.3</libpst.version>
     <log4j2.version>2.24.1</log4j2.version>
     <!-- can't update to 10, needs jdk21 -->
@@ -1029,12 +1029,6 @@
         <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
         <version>${maven.plugin.annotations.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <!-- for zookeeper to avoid CVE-2023-6378 -->
-      <dependency>
-          <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
-          <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
-          <version>${logback.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
           <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>

tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-age-recogniser/pom.xml

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
         <artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
-        <version>1.15.10</version>
+        <version>1.15.7</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
@@ -108,18 +108,6 @@
         <version>2.3.1</version>
       </dependency>
 
-      <!-- avoid conflicts because of age-predictor-api -->
-      <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
-          <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-          <version>${zookeeper.version}</version>
-          <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>netty-transport-native-unix-common</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-      </dependency>
       <!-- netty dependency removed, either it isn't needed,
            or our test coverage isn't good enough -->
       <dependency>