chore(main): release 2.42.0

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2.42.0 (2024-08-06)

Features

• Support float32, float64, and array type query params (#2297) (a65640e)

Bug Fixes

• Adapt toString tests to introduction of java.time in gax (93f66a7)

Dependencies

• Update shared dependencies (93f66a7)

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