Merge branch 'main' into dependabot/github_actions/actions/download-artifact-6.0.0

Author: sdangol

.github/workflows/ossf_scorecard.yml

@@ -43,6 +43,6 @@ jobs:
 
       # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard.
       - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@16140ae1a102900babc80a33c44059580f687047 # v4.30.9
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@4e94bd11f71e507f7f87df81788dff88d1dacbfb # v4.31.0
         with:
           sarif_file: results.sarif