Merge branch 'main' into merge/lts-to-main #7384

Job	Run time
markdown-link-check	55s
Pylint test (3.13)	1m 9s
Pylint test (3.10)	1m 23s
Pylint test (3.12)	1m 16s
doc-build-test	1m 15s
pyright (3.12)	58s
pyright (3.10)	1m 9s
Unit and integration tests (windows-latest, 3.10)	2m 54s
pre-commit	40s
Unit and integration tests (ubuntu-latest, 3.13)	2m 7s
Unit and integration tests (ubuntu-latest, 3.12)	1m 21s
Unit and integration tests (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	1m 30s
pyright (3.13)	50s
build-test	32s
	17m 59s

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