Play WS, async HTTP client 2.2.5

Noteworthy

Upgrades play-json which contains bug fixes.

Changes

• #830 Small workaround that allows us to upgrade akka independent of Play by @mkurz
• #827 mockito-core 5.7.0 (was 5.6.0) by @scala-steward
• #828 Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #822 [2.2.x] Set mimaPreviousArtifacts to last "major" release by @mkurz
• #819 Play 2.9.0 by @mkurz
• #815 [2.2.x] mockito-core 5.6.0 (was 5.5.0) by @scala-steward
• #816 [2.2.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #814 play-netty-server 2.9.0-RC3 (was 2.9.0-RC2) by @scala-steward
• #811 [2.2.x] Move scala steward conf into .github folder by @mkurz

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