merge dev and address PR feedback

- Resolve merge conflict (keep OneBranch rewrite, ESRP fix unchanged)
- Remove packageVersion default to force explicit input on each release
- Pin vmImage to ubuntu-22.04 for reproducibility

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: RyAuld

.Pipelines/pipeline-publish.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ parameters:
 - name: packageVersion
   displayName: 'Package version to publish (must match msal/sku.py, e.g. 1.36.0 or 1.36.0rc1)'
   type: string
-  default: '1.37.0'
+  default: ' '
 
 - name: publishTarget
   displayName: 'Publish target'
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ extends:
         pool:
           type: linux
           isCustom: true
-          vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
+          vmImage: 'ubuntu-22.04'
         variables:
           ob_outputDirectory: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
         steps:
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ extends:
         pool:
           type: linux
           isCustom: true
-          vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
+          vmImage: 'ubuntu-22.04'
         variables:
           ob_outputDirectory: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
         steps:

.Pipelines/template-pipeline-stages.yml

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ stages:
     pool:
       type: linux
       isCustom: true
-      vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
+      vmImage: 'ubuntu-22.04'
     variables:
       ob_outputDirectory: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
     steps:
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ stages:
     pool:
       type: linux
       isCustom: true
-      vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
+      vmImage: 'ubuntu-22.04'
     timeoutInMinutes: 30
     variables:
       ob_outputDirectory: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ stages:
     pool:
       type: linux
       isCustom: true
-      vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
+      vmImage: 'ubuntu-22.04'
     timeoutInMinutes: 60
     variables:
       ob_outputDirectory: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'

azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ extends:
         pool:
           type: linux
           isCustom: true
-          vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
+          vmImage: 'ubuntu-22.04'
         variables:
           ob_outputDirectory: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
         steps: