[Space-Age] Warning on vulnerability in transitive dependency Newtonsoft.Json 9.0.1

[ducdetronquito]

Hi !

First thanks for you work on the F# track, it's a pleasure to learn the language on Exercism !

When building the exercise space-age, I have the following warnings:

Restore succeeded with 1 warning(s) in 0.6s
    /exercism_workspace/fsharp/space-age/SpaceAge.fsproj : warning NU1903: Package 'Newtonsoft.Json' 9.0.1 has a known high severity vulnerability, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5crp-9r3c-p9vr
  SpaceAge succeeded with 1 warning(s) (2.3s) → bin/Debug/net8.0/SpaceAge.dll
    /exercism_workspace/fsharp/space-age/SpaceAge.fsproj : warning NU1903: Package 'Newtonsoft.Json' 9.0.1 has a known high severity vulnerability, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5crp-9r3c-p9vr

It appears that Newtonsoft.Json is a dependency of Microsoft.TestPlatform.TestHost/16.8.3 which in turn is a dependency of Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk/16.8.3.

dotnet-outdated output that some packages could benefit from being bumped, and bumping Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk to the latest version would remove the previous warning because Newtonsoft.Json is no longer a dependency.

❯ dotnet outdated
» SpaceAge                                                                                                                                                    
  [net8.0]
  FsUnit.xUnit               4.0.4  -> 6.0.1  
  Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk     16.8.3 -> 17.12.0
  xunit                      2.4.1  -> 2.9.2  
  xunit.runner.visualstudio  2.4.3  -> 2.8.2  

What do you think about it ?

I can make a PR to bump these packages if you agree.

Have a nice day :)

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[ErikSchierboom]

We can't just update the dependencies unfortunately because the test runner (which runs the tests when submitting solutions) has to be updated too. We'll get to it though.

[ducdetronquito]

Ok ! I'm not a F# guru but If there is any help I can provide, just ask :)