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enable releases

* deps: declaring the latest auth library version

* fix: declare API surface as api configuration

Fix #1534

* fix: declare API surface's dependencies as 'api'

Adding more artifacts to be declared as 'api' because they appear
in public API surface. See the comment of the following issue
for the analysis:
#1534

* refactor: move java-library declaration to top-level build.gradle

* build: refactor Gradle build
* build: simplify
* Fix local install

* build: remove obsolete plugin and migrate
* clean up

…pubsub-v1 to v1.96.7 (#1541)

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…bigtable-v2 to v2.2.0 (#1546)

* feat: add google-c2p dependence to DirectPath

Co-authored-by: Chanseok Oh <[email protected]>

* feat: pass request or response in ApiTracer

* add comments

* make change backward compatible

* revert attemptSucceeded changes

Co-authored-by: Igor Bernstein <[email protected]>

Add `ApiTracer#batchRequestThrottled` to track total throttled time of a batch. In `BatcherImpl`, add throttled time to `ApiCallContext` so it can be accessed from callable chains and recorded in `ApiTracer`.

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