Updating package version to 7.0.0b1

Updated package version

Updated image name

Updating library version for 5.3.1 release

Updating lib version to 6.1.1

Adding small change in code to trigger pipeline for the branch.

Adding comment for the lib version in __init__.py (to force ci pipeli…

…ne execution)

Changing the default value for ssl_check_hostname to True, to ensure …

…security validations are not skipped by default (#3626)

* Changing the default value for ssl_check_hostname to True, to ensure security validations  are not skipped by default

* Applying review comments

* Removing unused operation in tests.

* Removing unneeded comment from tests.

flake8-isort version is set to 6.1.1 - to be compatible with python 3.8

Updating lib version