Dependency cleanup and library upgrades

[rfontanarosa]

towards #2343

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 59.35%. Comparing base (f48c05a) to head (2593fc6).

Additional details and impacted files

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  Coverage   59.35%   59.35%           
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  Files         115      115           
  Lines        2869     2869           
  Branches      427      427           
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  Hits         1703     1703           
  Misses       1106     1106           
  Partials       60       60           

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[gino-m]

While we're here, please use latest major (^) for all versions in this file, not just http-status-codes