Maven build fails recently with maven-surefire-plugin 2.x

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Maven Build fails recently

tests failing using maven-surefire-plugin in recent builds (affects all branches, even old snapshots)
affects 2.18.1 (used in pom.xml), as well as all versions until 2.22.1
seems to be fixed in:
3.0.0-M1

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.maven.plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/3.0.0-M1

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.maven.plugins/maven-surefire-plugin -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0-M1</version>
</dependency>

might be related to:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SUREFIRE/issues/SUREFIRE-1574?filter=allopenissues

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Note: there might be a second issue with Maven builds: see #23

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see:

• Pull Request fix maven-surefire-plugin 2.18.1 -> 3.0.0-M1
  • commit ad464b1f7ede473d452d893f793ff0d5e8537ece