mvn liquibase:diff does not work in jhipster 8.2.1

[shivam-lal-maersk]

Overview of the issue

After upgrading to JHipster 8.2.1 from 8.1.0, I tried to run mvn liquibase:diff command to update changelogin master.xml. However I am getting an error in maven run
Stacktrace:

 mvn liquibase:diff
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------< com.company:datastore >------------
[INFO] Building Datastore 0.0.3-SNAPSHOT
[INFO]   from pom.xml
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- liquibase:4.24.0:diff (default-cli) @ datastore ---
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  0.681 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2024-03-22T21:35:06+05:30
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] version can neither be null, empty nor blank
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.

Motivation for or Use Case

This is a bug since upgrade of JHipster to version 8.2.1 will not work. mvn liquibase:diff is an integral command while updating any entities.

Reproduce the error

Upgrade to JHipster version 8.2.1
Run mvn liquibase:diff

Related issues

NA

Suggest a Fix

This can be fixed by adding the version of spring-boot-starter-data-jpa in the liquibase plugin dependencies in pom.xml. Also, need to add jakarta.validation-api dependency.

JHipster Version(s)

8.2.1

JHipster configuration

<details>
<summary>.yo-rc.json file</summary>
<pre>
{
  "generator-jhipster": {
    "applicationType": "monolith",
    "authenticationType": "jwt",
    "baseName": "datastore",
    "buildTool": "maven",
    "cacheProvider": "no",
    "clientFramework": "no",
    "clientTestFrameworks": null,
    "clientTheme": null,
    "creationTimestamp": 1697733352926,
    "databaseType": "sql",
    "devDatabaseType": "postgresql",
    "enableGradleEnterprise": null,
    "enableHibernateCache": false,
    "enableSwaggerCodegen": false,
    "enableTranslation": false,
    "entities": [
      "AMQUser",
      "GitHubPR",
      "EventStatus",
      "DestPermissions",
      "Tenant",
      "Cluster",
      "Destination",
      "Queue"
    ],
    "gradleEnterpriseHost": null,
    "jhipsterVersion": "8.2.1",
    "lastLiquibaseTimestamp": 1697733712000,
    "messageBroker": false,
    "microfrontend": null,
    "microfrontends": [],
    "monorepository": true,
    "nativeLanguage": "en",
    "packageName": "com.company.datastore",
    "prodDatabaseType": "postgresql",
    "reactive": false,
    "searchEngine": false,
    "serverPort": null,
    "serverSideOptions": [],
    "serviceDiscoveryType": false,
    "skipClient": true,
    "skipCommitHook": true,
    "testFrameworks": [],
    "websocket": false,
    "withAdminUi": null
  }
}
</pre>
</details>


##### **Environment and Tools**

java version "17.0.8" 2023-07-18 LTS
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 17.0.8+9-LTS-211)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0.8+9-LTS-211, mixed mode, sharing)

git version 2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)

node: v18.17.0
npm: 10.2.5

Docker version 25.0.3, build 4debf41

Entity configuration(s) entityName.json files generated in the .jhipster directory

Browsers and Operating System

OS: Mac OS 14.4

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