Git Plugin 4.9.0

🚀 New features and improvements

• JENKINS-66712 - Replace PNGs with vectorized images (#1148) @NotMyFault

📦 Dependency updates

• Bump bom-2.289.x from 924.vda78166e6655 to 961.vf0c9f6f59827 (#1135, #1140, #1154) @dependabot
• Bump plugin pom from 4.24 to 4.28 (#1143, #1146, #1150, #1155) @dependabot
• Bump spotbugs from 4.4.0 to 4.4.1 (#1142) @dependabot
• Bump spotbugs-annotations from 4.4.0 to 4.4.1 (#1141) @dependabot

👻 Maintenance

• Require Jenkins 2.289.1 or newer (#1147) @MarkEWaite
• Fix coverage reporting by using parent pom 4.28 (#1155) @MarkEWaite
• Minor refactoring and removed unused imports (#1152) @StefanSpieker
• Adapting GitSCMSourceTest and GitToolChooserTest to jenkinsci/jenkins#5425 (#1138) @basil
• Reduce usages of Guava (#1134) @basil

🚦 Tests

• do not run commit hooks in timing tests (#1151) @jtnord
• Remove test dep on xmlunit-matchers (#1149) @MarkEWaite
• Replace GitHub references to git:// protocol (#1145) @MarkEWaite
• Remove two Assembla tests (#1144) @MarkEWaite
• Git credentials binding unit test improvements (#1137) @arpoch