while trying to upgrade thymeleaf graal and logback - it looks like Java 17 is a must to address all the new CVEs cc @fabio-andre-rodrigues

refer discussion in #2399 and #2390

already these 3 commits have been made, that upgrade the github action runners and the docker container. the docker container required quite a few tweaks

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