release/v2.6.6

[sanjay-reddy-kandi]

Issue #, if available: Update to version 2.6.6 to address security vulnerabilities.

Description of changes:

[2.6.6] - 2024-07

Fixed

• Updated the base python image in the Dockerfile used to mitigate CVE-2023-50387, CVE-2023-5678, CVE-2024-0727, CVE-2023-6129 and several low severity vulnerabilities
• Updated braces to mitigate CVE-2024-4068.
• Updated IDNA to mitigate CVE-2024-3651.
• Updated urllib3 to mitigate CVE-2024-37891.
• Updated setuptools to mitigate CVE-2024-6345.
• Updated requests to mitigate CVE-2024-35195.
• Updated Certifi to mitigate CVE-2024-39689.
• Updated boto3, botocore, s3transfer to resolve conflicting dependencies.

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