Update smoke test latest tool versions

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What Does This Do

This PR updates the pinned latest eligible stable tool versions used by CI Visibility smoke tests
and by the Maven instrumentation latestDepTest.
Only releases at least 48 hours old are eligible.

• Gradle: 9.6.0 (published 2026-06-18)
• Maven: 4.0.0-beta-3 (unchanged)
• Maven Surefire: 3.5.6 (published 2026-05-25)

Motivation

Keep smoke tests running against the latest eligible stable versions of build tools without adopting releases in their first 48 hours.

Contributor Checklist

• Verify smoke tests pass with the new versions

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Pin Surefire to a stable release

This file says the smoke tests use the latest eligible stable Surefire version, but 3.6.0-M1 is a Maven milestone/pre-release. In the latest-maven-surefire smoke-test rows this will exercise an unreleased milestone instead of the latest stable plugin, and the same value is duplicated in the Maven instrumentation latestDepTest properties, so both pins should stay on a stable release until a final 3.6.x is available.

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[daniel-mohedano]

Indeed, addressed in 35d82f8

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Changed the Maven Surefire version bump to 3.5.6, that was missed due to the script not filtering out the milestone version.

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