feat(deps): Upgrade to Latest Minor Versions

[jshlbrd]

Description

• Upgrades all dependencies to their latest patch or minor version
  • gjson had a minor version update which requires a new release in Substation
• Added new guidance for dependency versioning

Motivation and Context

If any exported packages directly expose the functionality of a dependency, then we need to version Substation similarly to that dependency. gjson went from v1.17.1 to v1.18.0, so this is PR is considered a feature to also bump Substation up to a new minor release.

How Has This Been Tested?

• All unit tests are passing.

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

Checklist:

• My code follows the code style of this project.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.

[shellcromancer]

I understand the intent that a upgrade to new features in gjson can give users new features and should be considered a features, but this specific upgrade to v1.18 seems to be a performance improvement. Since this isn't necessarily a Substation feature we might not need a version bump for this specific upgrade?

[jshlbrd]

I think the tldr on this is that we shouldn't make assumptions about why a dependency bumped their version the way that they did -- they know their code better than we do. It's low effort (and not very impactful on users) for us to bump our own version whenever these packages do.

In this case, the changes look like it should have been a patch release, but for some reason it's not and I don't think we need to put much thought into why and how it affects our own versioning. (The caveat to this is if they break a unit test with a non-breaking update, then that's different and we should be more thoughtful about upgrading.)

[shellcromancer]

Yeah, regardless we have other content to bump our own patch release version. Semantically this specific upgrade is more of a chore than a feature 👍

[shellcromancer]

Yeah, regardless we have other content to bump our own patch release version. Semantically this specific upgrade is more of a chore than a feature 👍