chore: merge release/2.164.0 into main (#1824) #6551

Job	Run time
find-dead-code	50s
doc-build-test	1m 42s
build-test	43s
markdown-link-check	53s
Pylint test (3.8)	1m 13s
pre-commit	36s
pyright (3.8)	1m 9s
Pylint test (3.12)	1m 21s
pyright (3.12)	1m 5s
Unit and integration tests (ubuntu-latest, 3.8)	1m 33s
Unit and integration tests (windows-latest, 3.8)	1m 20s
Unit and integration tests (ubuntu-latest, 3.12)	1m 18s
	13m 43s

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