Cherry-picked commits from hotfix 2.2.42 to develop

[larohra]

Description

Cherry-picked commits from hotfix 2.2.42 to develop

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• The title of the PR is clear and informative.
• There are a small number of commits, each of which has an informative message. This means that previously merged commits do not appear in the history of the PR. For information on cleaning up the commits in your pull request, see this page.
• Except for special cases involving multiple contributors, the PR is started from a fork of the main repository, not a branch.
• If applicable, the PR references the bug/issue that it fixes in the description.
• New Unit tests were added for the changes made and Travis.CI is passing.

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[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #1613 into develop will increase coverage by 0.02%.
The diff coverage is 100%.

@@             Coverage Diff             @@
##           develop    #1613      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage    66.02%   66.05%   +0.02%     
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  Files           77       77              
  Lines        11049    11052       +3     
  Branches      1557     1558       +1     
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+ Hits          7295     7300       +5     
+ Misses        3421     3420       -1     
+ Partials       333      332       -1

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
azurelinuxagent/common/version.py	68.96% <100%> (ø)	⬆️
azurelinuxagent/ga/exthandlers.py	82.03% <100%> (+0.27%)	⬆️

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[pgombar]

LGTM