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@shivaygupta-dotcom for future reference, let's follow the branch naming guidelines as well - this has dependency bump, so should be chore/xyz

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❌ Patch coverage is 33.33333% with 2 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 32.78%. Comparing base (19a389c) to head (34f029d).

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@shivaygupta-dotcom regarding the code changes for linting errors -

1. Why did the linter start erroring out now? Was there any recent version upgrade on CI with new rules?
2. Why did we choose to make these code changes, and what impact will each change have?

@shivaygupta-dotcom regarding the code changes for linting errors -

1. Why did the linter start erroring out now? Was there any recent version upgrade on CI with new rules?
2. Why did we choose to make these code changes, and what impact will each change have?

1. With the new linter version(2.8.0) upgraded in CI, these issues started appearing. Based on my analysis, the newer version has stricter enforcement of the prealloc rule, which is now flagging cases that were previously allowed. but why after version upgrade is still not 100% sorted, I am checking on this and will update on this asap.
2. We made these code changes to align the implementation with the linter’s recommendations. Instead of disabling the rule, we chose to update the code to follow best practices suggested by the linter. These changes improve code quality, readability, and performance predictability, while also ensuring long-term maintainability