Gosec failure fixes and ci checks ajdustment

Change-Id: I430c3118b585ba924649ed32e8196e0e7e0bc260
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index fdd3be6..266146b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.6.2
+1.6.3