Garrett DeBruin

### Reproduce steps Run `IncrementVersion.ps1` from commit `992eb06d3da077e54229c15cf5cb36abeb5e0d8b` ### Expected result The `Versioning.props` file should go to version 7.12.0 ### Actual result The `Versioning.props` file goes to version 7.12.1

2022-05-02 comparers

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The Maintainability Monday post for 2022-05-02 about comparers

### Assemblies affected *Which assemblies and versions are known to be affected e.g. OData .Net lib 7.x* ### Reproduce steps View the nuget packages in Nuget Package Exporer ### Expected...

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Remove any behavior flags that facilitate backwards compatibility

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We have many flags that we have introduced to maintain backwards compatibility but allow customers to take a new behavior if they want it. We should remove them. If we...

Rethink the interfaces around `IJsonWriter`

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`IJsonWriter`, `IJsonWriterFactory`, `IJsonStreamWriter` should all be reworked with `Utf8JsonWriter` and `CborWriter` in mind

updated uses of random number generation in tests so that we log the …

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…used for later investigation ### Description *Some tests use a random number generated when creating data. This can cause tests to fail intermittently. This PR logs the seed used for...

The test `CRUDEntitySetShouldWork` fails intermittently due to the use of a random number generator. ### Assemblies affected Due to the nature of the random number generator, it is possible that...

I am adding a new file to document some of the graph conventions we have around properties. This PR is documenting the convention that read-only properties can be "updated" so...

Have a CBOR writer implementation after 8.0 releases

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As part of the 8.0 milestone, we are rethinking the `IJsonWriter` interface and it's related interfaces (as per [this](https://github.com/OData/odata.net/issues/2378) issue). Once released, we should have an implementation of those interfaces...