docs: public static Properties getProperties(SystemStoreClient<String, String> versionStore) {
          Properties props = null;
          Versioned<String> versioned = versionStore.getSysStore(SystemStoreConstants.VERSIONS_METADATA_KEY);
          if(versioned != null && versioned.getValue() != null) {
              try {
                  String versionList = versioned.getValue();
                  props = new Properties();
                  props.load(new ByteArrayInputStream(versionList.getBytes()));
              } catch(Exception e) {
                  logger.warn("Error retrieving properties ", e);
              }
          }
  
          return props;
      }