Update Spotless to 8.10.1

[AlexeyKuznetsov-DD]

What Does This Do

Updates Spotless to 8.10.1 and uses the build directory provider for exclusions.

Motivation

Keep the build tooling current and compatible with the updated Spotless API.

Additional Notes

Validation: ./gradlew spotlessCheck

Contributor Checklist

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• Assign the type: and (comp: or inst:) labels in addition to any other useful labels
• Avoid using close, fix, or any linking keywords when referencing an issue
  Use solves instead, and assign the PR milestone to the issue
• Update the CODEOWNERS file on source file addition, migration, or deletion
• Update public documentation with any new configuration flags or behaviors
• Once approved, use merge queue to merge the PR

Jira ticket: [PROJ-IDENT]

[dd-octo-sts]

🟢 Java Benchmark SLOs — All performance SLOs passed

Suite	Status
Startup	🟢 pass

SLO thresholds are defined here based on automatically generated metrics. A warning is raised when results are within 5% of the threshold.

PR vs. master results

Scenario	Candidate	master	Δ (95% CI of mean)
startup:insecure-bank:iast:Agent	14.69 s	14.71 s	[-1.0%; +0.8%] (no difference)
startup:insecure-bank:tracing:Agent	13.61 s	13.64 s	[-0.9%; +0.5%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:appsec:Agent	16.97 s	16.84 s	[-0.2%; +1.7%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:iast:Agent	16.93 s	16.94 s	[-0.9%; +0.8%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:profiling:Agent	16.86 s	17.01 s	[-1.8%; +0.1%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:sca:Agent	16.83 s	16.50 s	[+1.1%; +2.9%] (significantly worse)
startup:petclinic:tracing:Agent	16.18 s	16.12 s	[-0.8%; +1.7%] (no difference)

Commit: ea4906a5 · CI Pipeline · Benchmarking Platform UI

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More details

The build directory exclusions use the provider that Spotless 8.10.1 supports. This keeps lazy directory resolution for Java, Groovy, Scala, and Kotlin targets.

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2026-08-30 18:31:51 UTC ℹ️ Start processing command /merge

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2026-08-30 18:31:56 UTC ℹ️ MergeQueue: pull request added to the queue

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2026-08-30 19:24:00 UTC ℹ️ MergeQueue: This merge request was merged