New JHipster project: All integration tests fail

Today, I tried starting a new project using JHipster. My environment includes:

Windows 10 22H2 build 19045.2251 (64 bit)
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-16.0.2+7
node 16.17.0
npm 8.19.1
Gradle 7.5.1
MariaDB 10.6.8
Chrome 107.0.5304.107

Project configuration file (myapp.jh) is:

application {
  config {
    baseName myapp,
    packageName com.mycompany.app,
    applicationType monolith,
    authenticationType jwt,
    cacheProvider ehcache,
    enableHibernateCache true,
    databaseType sql,
    devDatabaseType mariadb,
    prodDatabaseType mariadb,
    buildTool gradle,
    clientPackageManager npm,
    clientFramework angular,
    clientTheme minty,
    clientThemeVariant primary,
    testFrameworks [protractor, cypress],
    nativeLanguage en,
    languages [en, es],
    jhiPrefix myapp,
    jwtSecretKey "YjAwZDU2ODI3NzNjZjk0NjVhY2UzNGViZmY0YjY1ZGY2MDI5MTc5Y2FlZWYxNzE5Yjg5ZjMxOGZhZTgwZjA5NTFkN2VmNDM3ZGMyZDNjZTViNDAwYTg4NmNlMmM2ZDkxZTMwMDk5YmUxNWNkZmE0YTNiNDlhMGNhZmM4OTk1NmQ="
  }
}

I carried out the following steps in a shell command line:

• Installed the latest version of JHipster: npm install -g generator-jhipster --> v7.9.3
• Imported the JDL: jhipster jdl myapp.jh
• Built the application: gradle build

Result: Everything appears to build nicely up until the integration tests which ALL fail!

All integration tests for the latest version of JHipster fail in virtually the same way:

HibernateTimeZoneIT > storeLocalDateTimeWithZoneIdConfigShouldBeStoredOnGMTTimeZone() FAILED
    java.lang.IllegalStateException at DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:132
        Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException at AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1804
            Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException at DockerClientProviderStrategy.java:257

Naturally, the first line of each error varies according to each failing test, but the following lines (java.lang.IllegalStateException ... onward) are the same for ALL failed tests. I have never seen errors like this before. It appears to have something to do with Docker.

I repeated the steps for JHipster 7.9.2, and 7.9.0 -- with the same results -- all integration tests fail. (I even tried the maintenance build for 7.9.3, and get the same failures.) I also get the same errors if I run the integration tests directly with: gradle integrationTest

Finally, I downgraded to JHipster 7.8.1 (released in April), and everything works (no failures).

Are the last three JHipster releases (7.9.0, 7.9.2 and 7.9.3) broken? Has there been a new requirement introduced after v7.8.1? Am I doing something wrong?

Please help!

(I'm happy to provide ANY additional information.)

NOTE: If I forego the integration tests, and just run the application (by typing ./gradlew in one shell, and npm start in another shell, the application does run/work...)