Merge branch 'release/4.45.0' into master #1130

Job	Run time
Run linters (flake8)	2m 8s
Run tests with coverage	3m 4s
Run linters (pydocstyle)	2m 10s
Run tests with different pydantic versions	3m 46s
Run tests (3.8)	2m 10s
Run linters (mypy)	2m 6s
Run tests (3.9)	2m 11s
Run linters (pylint)	1m 59s
Run tests on legacy versions (3.7)	2m 16s
Run tests (3.10)	2m 4s
Run tests (3.11)	2m 8s
Run tests (3.12)	2m 13s
Run tests (3.13)	2m 19s
	30m 34s

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