Java Maven Spring Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-junit-platform:pom:2.22.2 from/to central

Question

Java Spring project fails to package the project with maven, printing the following error:

Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-junit-platform:pom:2.22.2 from/to central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Transfer failed for https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/surefire/surefire-junit-platform/2.22.2/surefire-junit-platform-2.22.2.pom

The use used pom:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.0</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>***</groupId>
    <artifactId>***</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>***</name>
    <description>***</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

I use IntelliJ to develop and build the project. I do not need a proxy to enter the internet. If I click the link, I can see the pom file without problems. Reloading the project does not work, downloading all sources neither.

In the local storage, I find the following files:

C:\Users\***\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-surefire-plugin\2.22.2
    _remote.repositories
    maven-surefire-plugin-2.22.2.jar
    maven-surefire-plugin-2.22.2.jar.sha1
    maven-surefire-plugin-2.22.2.pom
    maven-surefire-plugin-2.22.2.pom.sha1

Removing them and reloading the project restores the files, the error persists.

I cleaned the project and used the -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2 parameter no changes.

Edit:

Using a VPN doe not work.

Output of mvn -v :

Apache Maven 3.8.4 (9b656c72d54e5bacbed989b64718c159fe39b537)
Maven home: C:\Program Files\java\apache-maven-3.8.4
Java version: 1.8.0_312, vendor: Temurin, runtime: C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-8.0.312.7-hotspot\jre
Default locale: de_DE, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"

When building with mvn clean package -U :

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.2:test (default-test) on project Grafnus-Server: Unable to generate classpath: org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ArtifactResolutionException: Unable to get dependency information for org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-junit-platform:jar:2.22.2: Failed to retrieve POM for org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-junit-platform:jar:2.22.2: Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-junit-platform:pom:2.22.2 from/to central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): transfer failed for https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/surefire/surefire-junit-platform/2.22.2/surefire-junit-platform-2.22.2.pom

[ERROR] from the specified remote repositories:
[ERROR]   central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2, releases=true, snapshots=false)
[ERROR] Path to dependency:
[ERROR]         1) dummy:dummy:jar:1.0

Answer 1

The issue was the outdated java version. I updated to a newer one and at first I did not change it in the project settings (thought that would change on his own). Now it works like a charm. Thanks to @khmarbaise