* Update GO version to 1.18
* Removed redundant entry from the .gitignore file
* Added new DSL functions
to_unix_time(input string, optionalLayout string) int64
hex_to_dec(input string) float64
oct_to_dec(input string|number) float64
bin_to_dec(intput string|number) float64
* Notify if debug is enabled when a proxy cannot be validated
* Documentation: Go version requirement updated to 1.18
* test fix: Timezone agnostic date expectation in the assertion
* code review: extracted the default date-time layouts into a global variable