Incorrect version of jakarta.validation-api 3.1.0 instead of 3.0.2 starting with springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui 2.7.0

[mjschwaiger]

Describe the bug
Versions of swagger-core-jakarta introducing jakarta.validation-api:3.1.0 are used in springdoc-openapi-starter-common starting with 2.7.0.

Version 2.2.25 and newer of swagger-core-jakarta and define version 3.1.0 instead of 3.0.2 of component jakarta.validation-api.

jakarta.validation-api:3.1.0 is part of Jakarta EE 11, but Spring Boot 3.x is based on Jakarta EE 10, and therefore jakarta.validation-api:3.0.2 should be used.

For more details see swagger-api/swagger-core#4849.

To Reproduce
Example: this would resolve to jakarta.validation-api:3.1.0 which is the release for Jakarta EE 11

dependencies {
  implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter:3.4.3") /* based on Jakarta EE 10 */
  implementation("org.springdoc:springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui:2.8.5")
}

Expected behavior
In fact, you would expect the example above to resolve to jakarta.validation-api:3.0.2 (Jakarta EE 10).

Possible solution
An update of springdoc-openapi-starter-common to swagger-core-jakarta version 2.29 should fix this issue, as it has already been fixed in the pull request 4853 of the swagger-core project.

Hopefully this update to swagger-core-jakarta version 2.29 will be included in the next release of org.springdoc:springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui.

Additional context
This issue is more of a documentation issue to help people who are also looking for this problem.

Versions of Jakarta (Bean) Validation:

• jakarta.validation-api:3.1.0 is the release for Jakarta EE 11
• jakarta.validation-api:3.0.2 is the release for Jakarta EE 10
• jakarta.validation-api:3.0.0 is the release for Jakarta EE 9

See https://jakarta.ee/specifications/bean-validation/ for more details.

The baseline for Spring Boot 3.x and Spring Framework 6.x is Jakarta EE 10, so components such as springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui (actually, the origin of the problem is swagger-core-jakarta) should not update this baseline to versions based on Jakarta EE 11, which will be the baseline for Spring Boot 4.x and Spring Framework 7.x.

[mjschwaiger]

✅ Should be fixed with commit 50b2fa8 by upgrading swagger-core to 2.2.29