(maven) branch maven-3.9.x updated: add maintained branches

[hboutemy]

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/maven-3.9.x by this push:
     new 1a9ee3fe73 add maintained branches
1a9ee3fe73 is described below

commit 1a9ee3fe73e6d74b5204f1818c6e4e42f0d2b21d
Author: Hervé Boutemy <hbout...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Nov 16 14:09:17 2025 +0100

    add maintained branches
---
 README.md | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5418969fd6..30f7604d82 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ Apache Maven
 ============
 
 [![Apache License, Version 2.0, January 
2004](https://img.shields.io/github/license/apache/maven.svg?label=License)][license]
-[![Maven 
Central](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.apache.maven/apache-maven.svg?label=Maven%20Central&versionPrefix=3.)](https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.apache.maven/apache-maven)
-[![Maven 
Central](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.apache.maven/apache-maven.svg?label=Maven%20Central)](https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.apache.maven/apache-maven)
 [![Reproducible 
Builds](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jvm-repo-rebuild/reproducible-central/master/content/org/apache/maven/maven/badge.json)](https://github.com/jvm-repo-rebuild/reproducible-central/blob/master/content/org/apache/maven/maven/README.md)
+- [master](https://github.com/apache/maven) = 4.1.x: [![Maven 
Central](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.apache.maven/apache-maven.svg?label=Maven%20Central)](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.maven/apache-maven)
+- [4.0.x](https://github.com/apache/maven/tree/maven-4.0.x): [![Maven 
Central](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.apache.maven/apache-maven.svg?label=Maven%20Central&versionPrefix=4.0)](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.maven/apache-maven)
+- [3.9.x](https://github.com/apache/maven/tree/maven-3.9.x): [![Maven 
Central](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.apache.maven/apache-maven.svg?label=Maven%20Central&versionPrefix=3.)](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.maven/apache-maven)
 [![Jenkins 
Status](https://img.shields.io/jenkins/s/https/ci-maven.apache.org/job/Maven/job/maven-box/job/maven/job/maven-3.9.x.svg?style=flat-square)][build]
 [![Jenkins 
tests](https://img.shields.io/jenkins/t/https/ci-maven.apache.org/job/Maven/job/maven-box/job/maven/job/maven-3.9.x.svg?style=flat-square)][test-results]