samples/checkstyle tests failures #1748
Description
samples/checkstyle tests started to fail recently (since Nov 2024) with java compatibility error:
Error: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin:3.2.1:check (default-cli) on project logging-snippets: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin:3.2.1:check failed: An API incompatibility was encountered while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin:3.2.1:check: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AuditListener has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0
Noticed this during release jobs. This started to failing from at least #1724 https://github.com/googleapis/java-logging/actions/runs/11884466491/job/33112682711
last release version with success in this workflow: #1718 https://github.com/googleapis/java-logging/actions/runs/11527764571/job/32093971804