Bump VssApiVersion to 0.5.164-private (microsoft#3435)

Fixes PipelineArtifacts to retry from a secondary storage account when persistent download failures occur.

Upload build artifacts to blob with batching (microsoft#3403)

* Upload build artifacts to blob with batching

* attempt to fix bad diff

* cleanup

* merge fix

* Adjust reporting timers

* thread safety

* fixes

2.187.2

update dotnet install scripts (microsoft#3411)

Added capability detection for JDK/JRE >=9 as 'java'/'JDK' capabiliti…

…es (microsoft#3381)

* Added ability to detect JDK/JRE >= 9 as jdk/java capabilities

* Additional amendments

* Added knob to disable new behavior
Added check for additional registry keys

* Fix variable name

* Fix formatting

* Change Knob description

* Resolve review comments

Co-authored-by: Nikita Ezzhev <v-niezz@microsoft.com>

Release 2.186.1

Add telemetry for chunk-dedup build artifacts uploads (microsoft#3375)

* Add telemetry for chunk-dedup build artifacts uploads

* fix tests

* better design

* cleanup

* Don't need this anymore

* cleanup

* cleanup

* fix test

* tryparse

Release 2.185.1

Fix 'Self-hosted agent cleaning source folder' issue without affectin…

…g env variables (microsoft#3318)

* Add L0 test

* Added tests

* Remove extra change

* Fix tests

* Fix one more case when variable value changed

* Fixed test

* Use HasMultipleCheckouts method instead of own implementation

* Fix nit

* Some code style improvements

* Added some comments

* Changed comments

* Code cleanup in tests

* Added check that the entered path does not correspond to the default location for this repository

* Fixed tests

* Added additional test

* Fixed nit

* Self-hosted agent cleaning source folder (microsoft#3237)

* Resolved review points

* Removed extra braces

* Rename method

Co-authored-by: Anatoly Bolshakov <anatoly.bolshakov@akvelon.com>

Release 2.184.2 hotfix PR (microsoft#3347)

* roll back git version

* fix release notes

* bump agent version

* spelling

* explain the reason for using 2.30.2