Merge branch 'develop' into ruff-lint-format #2366

Job	Run time
Core / Unit Test Pipeline (3.11)	7m 56s
Core / Unit Test Pipeline (3.12)	7m 33s
Core / Unit Test Pipeline (3.10)	17m 21s
Petals Compatibility / Unit Test Pipeline (3.10)	20m 18s
Petals Compatibility / Unit Test Pipeline (3.11)	8m 33s
Petals Compatibility / Unit Test Pipeline (3.12)	8m 20s
	1h 10m 1s

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