Merge pull request #635 from NordicSemiconductor/dependencies

Dependencies and build scripts updated

Merge pull request #625 from NordicSemiconductor/migration/ossrh-stag…

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Migration following OSSRH Staging API

Merge pull request #620 from junebeans/gatt-stays-open-in-background

`connectGatt` is successful without previous gatt not being closed

Merge pull request #612 from NordicSemiconductor/improvement/errors

New error codes

Update readme to version=2.9.0-beta03

Merge pull request #597 from NordicSemiconductor/bugfix/bonding-cance…

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Fixed handling cancelled bonding for read/write operations

Merge pull request #591 from NordicSemiconductor/improvement/java17

Migration `instanceof` to pattern matching from Java 17

Merge pull request #581

Warnings fixed

Merge pull request #575 from muscardinus/start-auto-connect-immediately

Start auto connect immediately

Merge pull request #551 from CyDragon80/abort_connection

Provide access to cancelConnection so that a server can deny a client