Merging ec3cf9c into releases/v1

Conductor for this PR is @edoardopirovano.

Contains the following pull requests:

• GHES 3.1 has been deprecated end of June 2022. #1313 (@criemen)
• Mergeback v2.1.28 refs/heads/releases/v2 into main #1315 (@edoardopirovano)
• Bump the min version for code scanning config in the cli #1318 (@aeisenberg)
• Bump default CodeQL version to 2.11.2 #1320 (@edoardopirovano)
• Merge main into releases/v2 #1323 (@edoardopirovano)

Please do the following:

• Ensure the CHANGELOG displays the correct version and date.
• Ensure the CHANGELOG includes all relevant, user-facing changes since the last release.
• Check that there are not any unexpected commits being merged into the releases/v1 branch.
• Ensure the docs team is aware of any documentation changes that need to be released.
• Remove and re-add the "Update dependencies" label to the PR to trigger just this workflow.
• Wait for the "Update dependencies" workflow to push a commit updating the dependencies.
• Mark the PR as ready for review to trigger the full set of PR checks.
• Approve and merge this PR. Make sure Create a merge commit is selected rather than Squash and merge or Rebase and merge.