fix: backport some fixes + version bump to release

[sicoyle]

Description

backport caspers pr here since the backport failed #951
also bumped all versions everywhere so we can then re cut a release

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Checklist

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• Code compiles correctly
• Created/updated tests
• Extended the documentation

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 89.83740% with 25 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
⚠️ Please upload report for BASE (release-1.17@7cafe86). Learn more about missing BASE report.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
...t/dapr-ext-workflow/tests/test_workflow_runtime.py	93.57%	14 Missing ⚠️
dapr/clients/grpc/client.py	0.00%	6 Missing ⚠️
dapr/clients/grpc/subscription.py	66.66%	3 Missing ⚠️
dapr/aio/clients/grpc/client.py	66.66%	2 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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