merging main into dev #162

Job	Run time
build-and-test (ubuntu-latest, 3.11, xvfb-run python3)	38s
build-and-test (ubuntu-latest, 3.9, xvfb-run python3)	42s
build-and-test (ubuntu-latest, 3.12, xvfb-run python3)	36s
build-and-test (macos-15, 3.12, python3)	39s
build-and-test (windows-2022, 3.11, python, --user)	1m 24s
	3m 59s

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