Merge branch '7.8.x' into 7.9.x by janjwerner-confluent

Author: ConfluentSemaphore

pom.xml

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
         <spotbugs.maven.plugin.version>4.7.1.0</spotbugs.maven.plugin.version>
         <java.version>8</java.version>
         <jackson.version>2.16.0</jackson.version>
-        <jetty.version>9.4.54.v20240208</jetty.version>
+        <jetty.version>9.4.56.v20240826</jetty.version>
         <jose4j.version>0.9.5</jose4j.version>
         <gson.version>2.9.0</gson.version>
         <guava.version>32.0.1-jre</guava.version>