Fix lowercase country code in Finance.bic() (#1853) (#1855)

countryCode2() returns lowercase ISO codes; the BIC regex requires
uppercase, causing generated BICs to fail ISO 9362 validation.

Fix: apply toUpperCase(Locale.ROOT) before interpolating the country
code into the regex pattern.

Also adds Javadoc to Finance.bic() and Country provider methods,
bumps iban-commons to 1.8.8, and replaces deprecated assertThatIbanOf
with assertThatIban in FinanceTest.

Reported-by: Marco Ferretti (@mferretti)

Bump com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-maven-plugin from 3.6.0 to 3.7.0 (#…

…1837)

Bump kotlin.version from 2.3.0 to 2.3.10 (#1758)

Ukrainian Locale Enhancements (#1704)

* Add Ukrainian universities

* Add Ukrainian vehicle details

* Add tests for Ukrainian license plates, fuel types, and transmissions

* Move tests for Ukrainian license plates, fuel types, and transmissions to the new VehicleLocaleTest class

* Normalize license plates by converting them to uppercase for consistency

* Add locale-specific testing infrastructure for BaseFaker and tests for UK and UZ university names

code review feedback

Stop using Internet#username() interally (#1671)

Update all non-major dependencies (#1655)

Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.17.0 to 3.18.0

Bumps org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.17.0 to 3.18.0.

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: org.apache.commons:commons-lang3
  dependency-version: 3.18.0
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
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Update metcalfc/changelog-generator action to v4.6.2 (#1532)

Automate rolling of SNAPSHOT version in pom (#1438)

* Automate rolling of SNAPSHOT version in pom

Follow-up to discussion in: #1412