Merge branch 'develop' into promote-develop-to-main-2.5.0 #4285

Job	Run time
check-formating	1m 20s
unit-tests	5m 53s
build-operator-image	7m 20s
vulnerability-scan	1m 5s
smoke-tests (basic)	1h 19m 38s
smoke-tests (appframeworks1)	1h 37m 1s
smoke-tests (managerappframeworkc3)	4h 17m 58s
smoke-tests (managerappframeworkm4)	2h 41m 38s
smoke-tests (managersecret)	1h 36m 20s
smoke-tests (managermc)	1h 18m 15s
push-latest	0s
	13h 6m 28s

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