Merge main in protocol changes (#997) #6096

Job	Run time
Lints and doc tests on ubuntu-latest	8m 9s
Unit tests on ubuntu-latest	21m 23s
Lints and doc tests on windows-latest	12m 58s
Unit tests on windows-latest	20m 47s
Lints and doc tests on macos-13	8m 44s
Unit tests on macos-13	13m 18s
Lints and doc tests on macos-14	6m 54s
Unit tests on macos-14	17m 34s
Memory leak checks	2m 31s
CI status checks	1s
	1h 52m 19s

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