Merge branch 'main' into rename_refresh

Author: daniel-sanche

samples/cloud-client/snippets/requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-google-cloud-compute==1.5.1
-google-cloud-storage==3.1.0
-google-auth==2.41.1
-pytest==8.4.2
+google-cloud-compute==1.40.0
+google-cloud-storage==3.7.0
+google-auth==2.45.0
+pytest===8.4.2; python_version == '3.9'
+pytest==9.0.2; python_version > '3.9'
 boto3>=1.26.0
-requests==2.32.4
-python-dotenv==1.1.1
+requests==2.32.5
+python-dotenv==1.2.1