Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into feature-rdbms-support

Notes: -s ours so future merges will keep the rdbms work in this feature branch
RDBMS changes
RDBMS changes
RDBMS changes
RDBMS changes
RDBMS fixes
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fixes
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Fixes
Changes over the core project (merged the defaultExtension.json file into metadata configuration file
Changes over the core project (merged the defaultExtension.json file into metadata configuration file
Merged master fixed conflict.
Merged master fixed conflict.
Updated POM to the latest changes