Prepare release

[clarasb]

[Description of PR]

Checklist:

• Add unit tests and/or doctests in docstrings
• Add docstrings and API docs for any new/modified user-facing classes and functions
• New/modified features documented in docs/source/*
• Changes documented in CHANGES.md
• GitHub CI passes
• AppVeyor CI passes
• Test coverage remains or increases (target 100%)

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 89.55%. Comparing base (c9d4952) to head (6e8ceb2).
⚠️ Report is 6 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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##             main    #1190   +/-   ##
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  Coverage   89.55%   89.55%           
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  Files         280      280           
  Lines       21646    21646           
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  Hits        19384    19384           
  Misses       2262     2262           

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