- Comment-out the bucket-deletion process, in order to avoid any accidental deletion, even if it has to be explicitly allowed in the config.

- Update dependencies.

build.gradle

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ dependencies {
     //implementation group: 'jakarta.validation', name: 'jakarta.validation-api', version: '3.0.2'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.guava/guava
-    implementation group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '33.0.0-jre'
+    implementation group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '33.1.0-jre'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3
     implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-lang3', version: '3.14.0'
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation("org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.26.1") {
         exclude group: 'com.github.luben', module: 'zstd-jni'
     }
-    implementation 'com.github.luben:zstd-jni:1.5.5-11'  // Even though this is part of the above dependency, the Apache commons rarely updates it, while the zstd team makes improvements very often.
+    implementation 'com.github.luben:zstd-jni:1.5.6-3'  // Even though this is part of the above dependency, the Apache commons rarely updates it, while the zstd team makes improvements very often.
 
     implementation 'io.minio:minio:8.5.9'
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.10.1'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.micrometer/micrometer-registry-prometheus
-    runtimeOnly 'io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-prometheus:1.12.4'
+    runtimeOnly 'io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-prometheus:1.12.5'
 
     testImplementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-test'
     testImplementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test"

src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/util/S3ObjectStore.java

@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ public class S3ObjectStore {
         boolean bucketExists = minioClient.bucketExists(BucketExistsArgs.builder().bucket(bucketName).build());
 
         // Keep this commented-out to avoid objects-deletion by accident. The code is open-sourced, so it's easy to enable this ability if we really want it (e.g. for testing).
-        if ( shouldEmptyBucket && isTestEnvironment && bucketExists )
+        /*if ( shouldEmptyBucket && isTestEnvironment && bucketExists )
-            emptyBucket(bucketName, false);
+            emptyBucket(bucketName, false);*/
 
         // Make the bucket, if not exist.
         if ( !bucketExists ) {

src/main/resources/application.yml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ services:
                 secretKey: XA
                 region: XA
                 bucketName: XA
-                shouldEmptyBucket: false
+                shouldEmptyBucket: false    # For data-security, in order to use this ability, the relevant code has to be uncommented in "util.S3ObjectStore.java"
                 shouldShowAllS3Buckets: true
         worker:
             port: 1881