Upgrading json-flattener version to latest 0.16.4 version

[bhavikp19]

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Description

Upgraded json-flattener dependency to latest version 0.16.4 to remove the critical vulnerability in 0.8.1 version from commons-text version 1.8.0

Testing

Did you add a unit test? No since this is dependency upgrade so no new unit test case is required.

[benmccann]

@bhavikp19 why did you send this against java 8 branch? It will never get released that way. Can you send it against the master branch instead?

[bhavikp19]

@bhavikp19 why did you send this against java 8 branch? It will never get released that way.

@benmccann according to this discussion #1201 I figured out that it will be long before there will be release from master branch and we needed this fix urgently because we are currently using version 0.43.1. I thought there would be another 0.43.2 release from java 8 branch looking at the <version>0.43.2-SNAPSHOT</version> in pom.xml. Is there plan to release 0.43.2 from java8 branch just for the critical vulnerability fixes?

Can you send it against the master branch instead?

I am happy to send another PR for master branch if that is what is required for this to be released. Do you know when we can have the release with this fix either way?

[bhavikp19]

Cherry picked merge commit 50cb481 on to master branch and PR is raised here : #1224