Direct: Adds direct package version 3.24.1

[asketagarwal]

Improvements

• Sub status: Adds SDK generated substatus codes for 503's
• Diagnostics: Captures diagnostics for Splits and RequestTimeoutExcpetion
• Performance: Reduces the size of the Rntbd buffer
• Diagnostics: Adds ServiceEndpoint and Connection Stats to the diagnostics
• Availability: Direct mode removes blocking call on broken connection exception
• Availability: Fixes the SDK to ensure it does not retry on replica that previously failed with 410, 408 and >= 500 status codes
• Session: Fixes scoped session tokens on partition splits and multiple write endpoints enabled.
• DefaultTraceListener: Removes DefaultTraceListener by default unless there is a debugger attached to it.
• Diagnostics: Resetting thread starvation status once it is detected.
• Hierarchical Partitioning: Provides an EPK range for partial partition key specification.
• Session: Fixes gateway session scope during merges

[github-actions]

Please follow the required format: "[Internal] Category: (Adds|Fixes|Refactors|Removes) Description"

Internal should be used for PRs that have no customer impact. This flag is used to help generate the changelog to know which PRs should be included. Examples:
Diagnostics: Adds GetElapsedClientLatency to CosmosDiagnostics
PartitionKey: Fixes null reference when using default(PartitionKey)
[v4] Client Encryption: Refactors code to external project
[Internal] Query: Adds code generator for CosmosNumbers for easy additions in the future.

All good!

[ealsur]

nit: Any documentation we can start writing that can help us or customers understand what this means?