SpringBoot Prohibit upgrades to HttpClient5 5.3

Comment From: wilkinsona

This upgrade is causing intermittent failures due to an NPE:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.apache.hc.client5.http.io.ManagedHttpClientConnection.isConsistent()" because "conn" is null
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.release(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:412)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalExecRuntime.discardEndpoint(InternalExecRuntime.java:246)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalExecRuntime.discardEndpoint(InternalExecRuntime.java:269)

It's been reported in HTTPCLIENT-2313 and should be fixed in 5.3.1. I don't fully understand why we're seeing intermittent failures. I suspect it may be because the problem only occurs when a connection is discarded from the pool and the time at which that happens may vary from run to run.