Jenkins Sync Plugin for OCP 4.8 doesn't synchronize as expected

Issue

• When using the Jenkins version openshift4/ose-jenkins:v4.8, JenkinsPipeline BuildConfigs are not synchronised as expected.
• The openshift-sync plugin does not synchronise with OpenShift Container Platform

• Errors like the following can be seen when viewing the Jenkins logs:

  2021-10-20 13:49:57 SEVERE  hudson.triggers.SafeTimerTask run Timer task io.fabric8.jenkins.openshiftsync.ConfigMapWatcher$1@332aedfa failed
  java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'java.lang.Object io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.dsl.WatchAndWaitable.watch(java.lang.Object)'
  at io.fabric8.jenkins.openshiftsync.ConfigMapWatcher$1.doRun(ConfigMapWatcher.java:82)
  at hudson.triggers.SafeTimerTask.run(SafeTimerTask.java:91)
  at jenkins.security.ImpersonatingScheduledExecutorService$1.run(ImpersonatingScheduledExecutorService.java:67)
  at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
  at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:305)
  at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:305)
  at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
  at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
  at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)