Play's main branch and other projects now depend on latest jackson

build.sbt

@@ -100,23 +100,12 @@ lazy val `scalatestplus-play` = project
     mimaSettings,
     organization := "org.scalatestplus.play",
     libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
-      // Note: It seems like the only jackson version that works with all play, play-ws, play-json and selenium is 2.11.4.
-      //       play will bring in older version of selenium as well, so need excluding and let scalatest+selenium brings in the newer version.4
       ws,
       akkaHttpServer       % Test,
       ("com.typesafe.play" %% "play-test" % PlayVersion.current)
-        .exclude("com.fasterxml.jackson.core", "jackson-core")
-        .exclude("com.fasterxml.jackson.core", "jackson-databind")
-        .exclude("org.seleniumhq.selenium", "htmlunit-driver")
-        .exclude("org.seleniumhq.selenium", "selenium-api")
-        .exclude("org.seleniumhq.selenium", "selenium-support")
-        .exclude("org.seleniumhq.selenium", "selenium-firefox-driver")
-        .exclude("org.seleniumhq.selenium", "selenium-remote-driver"),
       "org.scalatest"      %% "scalatest"    % ScalatestVersion,
       "org.scalatestplus"  %% "mockito-4-6"  % ScalatestMockitoVersion,
       ("org.scalatestplus" %% "selenium-4-2" % ScalatestSeleniumVersion)
-        .exclude("com.fasterxml.jackson.core", "jackson-core")
-        .exclude("com.fasterxml.jackson.core", "jackson-databind"),
       "org.seleniumhq.selenium"  % "selenium-java"      % SeleniumVersion,
       "org.seleniumhq.selenium"  % "htmlunit-driver"    % HtmlUnitVersion,
       "net.sourceforge.htmlunit" % "htmlunit-cssparser" % CssParserVersion