Merge branch 'release/4.45.0' into master #1131

Job	Run time
Run tests (3.8)	2m 18s
Run tests (3.9)	2m 4s
Run tests with coverage	3m 16s
Run tests with different pydantic versions	3m 51s
Run tests (3.10)	2m 9s
Run linters (flake8)	1m 56s
Run linters (pydocstyle)	1m 59s
Run tests (3.11)	2m 7s
Run tests on legacy versions (3.7)	2m 19s
Run tests (3.12)	2m 7s
Run linters (mypy)	2m 1s
Run tests (3.13)	2m 15s
Run linters (pylint)	2m 3s
	30m 25s

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