Merge branch 'release-1.12' into backports-release-1.12

Author: ViralBShah

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
   docs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
       - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v2
         with:
           version: 'pre'