Merge branch 'master' into ARTH_longestSubarray

Author: ArthBachhuka123

pom.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <maven.compiler.source>21</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>21</maven.compiler.target>
-        <assertj.version>3.27.3</assertj.version>
+        <assertj.version>3.27.4</assertj.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencyManagement>
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                     <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                     <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                    <version>10.26.1</version>
+                    <version>11.0.0</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
             </plugin>