fix: updating python libraries and Squashed commit of the following

commit a1a007f9 Author: David Diederich d.diederich@opengroup.org Date: Tue Dec 06 2022 08:55:55 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Merge branch 'cherry-pick-for-213' into 'release/0.18'

Cherry-pick 'added changes to disable the azure code coverage' into release/0.18

See merge request !217 (merged)

commit 100ec3b4 Author: David Diederich d.diederich@opengroup.org Date: Mon Dec 05 2022 00:26:05 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Create Release Branch for version 0.18

commit 459c5e12 Author: shivani karipe shivani_karipe@epam.com Date: Mon Dec 05 2022 06:27:18 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

added changes to disable the azure code coverage

(cherry picked from commit 82a5c7e0)