Merge branch 'release/4.45.0' into master #1129

Job	Run time
Run tests with coverage	3m 4s
Run tests with different pydantic versions	3m 46s
Run tests (3.8)	2m 15s
Run linters (flake8)	1m 57s
Run tests (3.9)	2m 9s
Run tests on legacy versions (3.7)	2m 23s
Run linters (pydocstyle)	1m 59s
Run tests (3.10)	2m 10s
Run linters (mypy)	2m 1s
Run tests (3.11)	2m 5s
Run linters (pylint)	1m 55s
Run tests (3.12)	2m 15s
Run tests (3.13)	2m 14s
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