chore(deps): Update error-prone monorepo to v2.46.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations (source)	2.35.1 → 2.46.0
com.google.errorprone:error_prone_core (source)	2.35.1 → 2.46.0

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Release Notes

google/error-prone (com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations)

v2.46.0: Error Prone 2.46.0

Changes:

• The javac flag -XDaddTypeAnnotationsToSymbol=true is now required for Error Prone invocations on JDK 21, to enable the javac fix for JDK-8225377: type annotations are not visible to javac plugins across compilation boundaries. See #​5426 for details.
• Remove deprecated value attribute from @IncompatibleModifiers and @RequiredModifiers (#​2122)
• Error Prone API changes to encapsulate references to internal javac APIs for end position handling (EndPosTable, DiagnosticPosition) (5440bb4, 06c2905, f3915ec)

New checks:

• DuplicateAssertion: detect duplicated assertion lines where the argument to assertThat is pure
• IfChainToSwitch: suggest converting chains of if-statements into arrow switches
• ScannerUseDelimiter: discourage Scanner.useDelimiter("\\A")
• AddNullMarkedToClass: refactoring to add @NullMarked annotation to top level classes

v2.45.0: Error Prone 2.45.0

Changes:

• Improved compatibility with latest JDK 26 EA builds.

New checks:

• AssertSameIncompatible: Detect calls to assertSame and similar assertions, where the calls are guaranteed to either succeed or fail.
• FormatStringShouldUsePlaceholders: Suggests using a format string instead of string concatenation operations on format methods

Closed issues: #​5335

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.44.0...v2.45.0

v2.44.0: Error Prone 2.44.0

Changes

• The default severity for LabelledBreakTarget is now an error
• Update dependency on Guava (#​5108)

Closed issues: #​5218, #​5278

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.43.0...v2.44.0

v2.43.0: Error Prone 2.43.0

The minimum supported JDK version to run Error Prone is now JDK 21 (#​4867).

Changes:

• -XepPatchChecks now skips disabled checks (#​4943)
• AndroidJdkLibsChecker has been removed, the recommended replacement for Android code is Android Lint's NewApi check

New checks:

• NullNeedsCastForVarargs: Detect calls that incorrectly passes a null array instead of a null element.
• RedundantNullCheck: detect checks on expressions that are non-null.

Closed issues: #​4943, #​5102, #​5107, #​5121, #​5158, #​5217, #​5239

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.42.0...v2.43.0

v2.42.0: Error Prone 2.42.0

New checks:

• ExplicitArrayForVarargs: discourage unnecessary explicit construction of an array to provide varargs.
• FloggerPerWithoutRateLimit: discourage Flogger's perUnique without rate limiting
• StringJoin: Ban String.join(CharSequence) and String.join(CharSequence, CharSequence)
• ThreadBuilderNameWithPlaceholder: Do not allow placeholders in Thread.Builder.name(String) or name(String, int).

Changes:

• The return type of ASTHelpers.asFlagSet has changed. The previous type was EnumSet<Flags.Flag>, where Flags.Flag is an enum in the javac class Flags. A recent JDK change has replaced that enum with a new top-level enum called FlagsEnum. It is not possible to change ASTHelpers.asFlagSet in a way that would be type-safe and compatible with the enums from JDKs both before and after the change. Instead, the method now returns ImmutableSet<String>, where the strings come from the toString() of the enum constants. That means they are "native", "abstract", etc.
• Flag IO.print[ln]() in SystemOut.

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.41.0...v2.42.0

v2.41.0: Error Prone 2.41.0

New checks:

• EffectivelyPrivate: Detect declarations that have public or protected modifiers, but are effectively private

Changes:

• Skip BooleanLiteral findings if the target type is boxed (#​5134)

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.40.0...v2.41.0

v2.40.0: Error Prone 2.40.0

Changes:

• Bug fixes and improvements
• Releases (including snapshots) have migrated from OSSRH to the Central Publisher Portal

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.39.0...v2.40.0

v2.39.0: Error Prone 2.39.0

Changes:

• Temporarily downgrade to Guava 33.4.0 (#​5108)

Checks:

• BooleanLiteral: Prefer true to Boolean.TRUE
• ExpensiveLenientFormatString: Renamed from PreconditionsExpensiveString, detects unnecessary calls to String.format in the arguments of lenient formatting methods.
• UnnecessaryQualifier: Detects @Qualifier or @BindingAnnotation annotations that have no effect, and can be removed

Issues: #​4996, #​5045

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.38.0...v2.39.0

v2.38.0: Error Prone 2.38.0

New checks:

• AddNullMarkedToPackageInfo: adds @org.jspecify.annotations.NullMarked annotation to package-info files
• IntLiteralCast: Suggests a literal of the desired type instead of casting an int literal to a long, float, or double
• MisleadingEmptyVarargs: Discourages calling varargs methods that expect at least one argument with no arguments, like Mockito's thenThrow
• PreconditionsExpensiveString: Discourages expensive string formatting in Guava Preconditions checks
• SelfSet: Detects mistakes like proto.setFoo(proto.getFoo())
• UnnecessaryCopy: detect unnecessary copies of proto Lists and Maps.

Closed issues: #​4924, #​4897, #​4995

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.37.0...v2.38.0

v2.37.0: Error Prone 2.37.0

Changes:

• The annotations that were previously in error_prone_type_annotations have been been merged into error_prone_annotations. error_prone_type_annotations is now deprecated, and will be removed in a future release.

New checks:

• AssignmentExpression - The use of an assignment expression can be surprising and hard to read; consider factoring out the assignment to a separate statement.
• IntFloatConversion - Detect calls to scalb that should be using the double overload instead
• InvalidSnippet - Detects snippets which omit the : required for inline code.
• JUnit4EmptyMethods - Detects empty JUnit4 @Before, @After, @BeforeClass, and @AfterClass methods.
• MockIllegalThrows - Detects cases where Mockito is configured to throw checked exception types which are impossible.
• NegativeBoolean - Prefer positive boolean names.
• RuleNotRun - Detects TestRules not annotated with @Rule, that won't be run.
• StringConcatToTextBlock - Replaces concatenated multiline strings with text blocks.
• TimeInStaticInitializer - Detects accesses of the system time in static contexts.

Closed issues:

• Propagate check flags in patch mode (#​4699)
• Fixes a crash in ComputeIfAbsentAmbiguousReference (#​4736)
• Show the field name in HidingField diagnostics (#​4775)
• Add support for jakarta annotations to some checks (#​4782)
• FloatingPointAssertionWithinEpsilonTest depends on default locale (#​4815)
• @InlineMe patching of Strings.repeat produces broken code (#​4819)
• Fix a crash in IdentifierName on unnamed (_) variables (#​4847)
• Fix a crash in ArgumentParameterSwap (#​490)

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.36.0...v2.37.0

v2.36.0: Error Prone 2.36.0

Changes:

• Add new matcher interfaces to ErrorProneScanner for AST nodes introduced after Java 11 (e5fd194)
• Fix compatibility with latest JDK 24 EA builds (d67bc15)
• Check that --should-stop=ifError=FLOW is set when using the -Xplugin integration (e71db1f)

New checks:

• DuplicateBranches: Discourage conditional expressions and if statements where both branches are the same
• RedundantControlFlow: Reports redundant continue statements.

Closed issues: #​4633, #​4646

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.35.1...v2.36.0

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