Issue 360: Increment lombok version to 1.8.44

[emeraldjava]

#360 - increment the lombok version to latest to enable option to compile the code on jdk21+ versions.

[emeraldjava]

Via 'mvn versions:display-dependency-updates' there are four other dependency versions which could be updated.

> [INFO]   com.google.code.gson:gson ........................... 2.10.1 -> 2.13.2
> [INFO]   io.reactivex.rxjava3:rxjava .......................... 3.1.6 -> 3.1.12
> [INFO]   org.freemarker:freemarker ........................... 2.3.32 -> 2.3.34
> [INFO]   org.testng:testng .................................... 7.7.1 -> 7.12.0