Merge upstream changes up to commit 8bb171c2

[illia-li]

Original commit list:

1. apache@48bb2bc
   Message:

Change Batch API to be consistent with Query()
Exec() method for batch was added & Query() method was refactored.
Batch for now behaves the same way as query.

patch by Oleksandr Luzhniy; reviewed by João Reis, Danylo Savchenko, Bohdan Siryk, Jackson Fleming, for CASSGO-7

Status: APPLIED
2. apache@37030fb
Message:

Update CCM installation after Python and Java upgrades on GitHub Actions
Patch by Lukasz Antoniak; reviewed by Joao Reis, Jackson Fleming for CASSGO-20

Status: APPLIED
3. apache@ba7d563
Message:

Remove global logger
By default, if the logger in the cluster config is not set,
the NewSession() method sets a default logger instance
which is a deprecated global variable.

patch by Oleksandr Luzhniy; reviewed by João Reis, Stanislav Bychkov, Jackson Fleming, for CASSGO-24

Status: APPLIED
4. apache@3e21781
Message:

Bump actions/upload-artifact and actions/cache versions to v4
Bumped due to cancelation of running CI workflows with the deprecated version of
actions/upload-artifact@v3 and in order to prevent future interruptions with
deprecation of actions/cache@v2.

Patch by Bohdan Siryk; Reviewed by João Reis, Stanislav Bychkov for CASSGO-48

Status: APPLIED
5. apache@8bb171c
Message:

Remove deprecated features
Some features marked as "Deprecated" were removed:
Global TimeoutLimit variable;
MustParseConsistency() function;
New() method for typeInfo{} interface;
View field for the KeyspaceMetadata structure;

patch by Oleksandr Luzhniy; reviewed by João Reis, James Hartig, for CASSGO-12

Status: APPLIED

[dkropachev]

@illia-li , we need 37030fb in, please find a way to integrate it.

[illia-li]

@illia-li , we need 37030fb in, please find a way to integrate it.

Done.

[dkropachev]

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