Merge branch '2.18' into 2.19

Author: cowtowncoder

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        java_version: ['8', '17', '21', '23' ]
+        java_version: ['8', '17', '21', '24' ]
         include:
           - java_version: '8'
             release_build: 'R'