8 merge requests!309M14 upgrade,!298Draft: Added logs, updated netty version in pom file and increased connect timeout to 300ms,!296Upgrade spring-boot-maven-plugin to 2.7.6 into azure/m12-master,!289Merge branch 'upgrade-dependencies' into 'master',!288M14 Upgrade,!287M14 Upgrade,!229Draft: Merge branch 'upgrade-dependencies' into 'master',!182Cherry-pick ' Upgrading core common dependency' into 'release/0.13'