Pipeline changes and version bump (#6047)

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## Checklist

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Guide](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/devGuide/DeveloperGuide.md)
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Stirling-PDF](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/devGuide/HowToAddNewLanguage.md)
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Tags](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/devGuide/HowToAddNewLanguage.md#add-new-translation-tags)
(for new translation tags only)

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- [ ] I ran
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Co-authored-by: a <a>

build.gradle

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ext {
     springSecuritySamlVersion = "7.0.2"
     openSamlVersion = "5.2.1"
     commonmarkVersion = "0.27.1"
-    googleJavaFormatVersion = "1.35.0"
+    googleJavaFormatVersion = "1.28.0"
     logback = "1.5.32"
     junitPlatformVersion = "1.12.2"
     modernJavaVersion = 21
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ springBoot {
 
 allprojects {
     group = 'stirling.software'
-    version = '2.8.0'
+    version = '2.9.0'
 
     configurations.configureEach {
         exclude group: "org.springframework.boot", module: "spring-boot-starter-tomcat"