Updated to Java 17
Simplified Jitpack script

SLF4J 1.7.31 to 2.0.6
MariaDB Java Client 2.7.3 to 3.1.2 (excluded Waffle JNA dependency)
HikariCP 4.0.3 to 5.0.1
JUnit 5.7.2 to 5.9.2
Surefire 2.22.2 to 3.0.0-M8

Replaced TestNG with JUnit.
Updated SLF4J from 1.7.30 to 1.7.31.
Updated MariaDB from 2.6.2 to 2.7.3.
Updated MySQL from 8.0.21 to 8.0.25.
Updated HikariCP from 3.4.5 to 4.0.3.
Updated DBCP2 from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0.