EKS Release 1.3

What's Changed

• chore: merge rc1.3 to main by @dharmez in #125
• chore: manually copy pr148 into main by @eeaton in #160
• chore(deps): Bump ytanikin/PRConventionalCommits from 1.1.0 to 1.3.0 by @dependabot in #149
• chore(deps): reduce noise from dependabot by @eeaton in #162
• chore(deps): upgrade python dependencies by @eeaton in #161
• chore(deps): Bump super-linter/super-linter from 7.1.0 to 7.2.0 by @dependabot in #150
• chore(variables): Cleanup default variables by @eeaton in #164
• chore(build): Standardize gcloud local-exec commands by @eeaton in #166
• fix: update doc registry after both the general processing and specialized parser processing has finished by @kingman in #167
• fix(AlloyDB): security issues in alloydb raised by Active Assist by @eeaton in #165
• ci: automation to check and add license headers to each file by @eeaton in #170
• fix: replace "serverless vpc connector" model with "direct vpc egress" model by @eeaton in #172
• docs: updated documentation by @dharmez in #169
• feat: Deletion script fix to remove entities by @eyalbenivri in #173
• ci: add functional tests by @eeaton in #176
• chore(deps): Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.21.0 to 0.31.0 in /build/test by @dependabot in #174
• chore(deps): Bump super-linter/super-linter from 7.2.0 to 7.2.1 by @dependabot in #178

Full Changelog: v1.2.1...v1.3