Certificate expired for JMeter 5.5 (v1.16.27)

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The output of curl https://packages.blazemeter.com/jmeter/apache-jmeter-5.5.zip -o jmeter.zip shows certificate expired:

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

Even with TAURUS_DISABLE_DOWNLOADS=1, taurus bzt (v1.16.27) exits with error:

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[2024-02-09 18:41:22,592 INFO Engine.jmeter.JMeter] Will install JMeter into /home/dev/.bzt/jmeter-taurus/5.5
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,592 DEBUG Engine.jmeter.JMeter.JMeterMirrorsManager] Retrieving mirrors from page: https://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,593 DEBUG Engine.jmeter.JMeter.JMeterMirrorsManager] Exception: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/utils.py", line 1692, in mirrors
    tmp_file = downloader.get(self.base_link)[0]
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/utils.py", line 1425, in get
    raise TaurusInternalException("Downloads are disabled by TAURUS_DISABLE_DOWNLOADS env var")
bzt.TaurusInternalException: Downloads are disabled by TAURUS_DISABLE_DOWNLOADS env var

[2024-02-09 18:41:22,593 ERROR Engine.jmeter.JMeter.JMeterMirrorsManager] Can't fetch https://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,593 DEBUG Engine.jmeter.JMeter.JMeterMirrorsManager] Total mirrors: 2
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,593 INFO Engine.jmeter.JMeter] Downloading: https://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-5.5.zip
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,593 DEBUG root] No progressbar for non-tty output: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,593 ERROR Engine.jmeter.JMeter] Error while downloading https://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-5.5.zip: Downloads are disabled by TAURUS_DISABLE_DOWNLOADS env var
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,595 INFO Engine.jmeter.JMeter] Downloading: https://packages.blazemeter.com/jmeter/apache-jmeter-5.5.zip
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,595 DEBUG root] No progressbar for non-tty output: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,596 ERROR Engine.jmeter.JMeter] Error while downloading https://packages.blazemeter.com/jmeter/apache-jmeter-5.5.zip: Downloads are disabled by TAURUS_DISABLE_DOWNLOADS env var
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,596 ERROR root] Internal Error: JMeter download failed: No more links to try
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,597 DEBUG root] TaurusInternalException: JMeter download failed: No more links to try
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/cli.py", line 275, in perform
    self.engine.prepare()
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/engine/engine.py", line 220, in prepare
    self.__prepare_provisioning()
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/engine/engine.py", line 635, in __prepare_provisioning
    self.provisioning.prepare()
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/modules/provisioning.py", line 72, in prepare
    executor.prepare()
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/modules/jmeter.py", line 257, in prepare
    self.install_required_tools()
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/modules/jmeter.py", line 814, in install_required_tools
    tool.install()
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/modules/jmeter.py", line 1641, in install
    self.__install_jmeter(jmeter_dir)
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/modules/jmeter.py", line 1513, in __install_jmeter
    jmeter_dist = self._download()
  File "/home/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bzt/utils.py", line 1520, in _download
    raise TaurusInternalException(error_message)
[2024-02-09 18:41:22,597 INFO Engine] Post-processing...
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