Merge branch 'main' into beta/pipelinebuild/172211

Author: Ndiritu

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ cffi==1.17.1
 charset-normalizer==3.4.0
 click==8.1.7
 colorama==0.4.6
-cryptography==43.0.3
+cryptography==44.0.0
 Deprecated==1.2.15
 dill==0.3.9
 docutils==0.21.2