Cherry-pick 'Upgrade First Party Library Dependencies for Release 0.16' into release/0.16

Original MR: !276 (merged)

changed milestone to %M13 - Release 0.16

requested review from @chad and @debasisc

assigned to @divido

changed target branch from master to release/0.16

approved this merge request

added 3 commits

• ef14fa33...692313b3 - 2 commits from branch release/0.16
• 30047bba - Merge branch 'release/0.16' into 'cherry-pick-dependency-upgrade'

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mentioned in commit bcc29ad6

merged

added Cherry-pick label