backport changes from maitenance/0.9.x #43

Job	Run time
code-lint	14s
run-tests (3.8, ubuntu-latest)	25s
run-tests (3.8, macos-12)	31s
run-tests (3.8, macos-latest)	49s
run-tests (3.8, windows-latest)	44s
run-tests (3.11, ubuntu-latest)	22s
run-tests (3.11, macos-12)	42s
run-tests (3.11, macos-latest)	18s
run-tests (3.11, windows-latest)	41s
run-tests (pypy3.8, ubuntu-latest)	1m 9s
run-tests (pypy3.8, macos-12)	1m 36s
run-tests (pypy3.8, macos-latest)	58s
run-tests (pypy3.8, windows-latest)	2m 38s
run-tests (ubuntu-20.04, 3.6)	29s
coverage	8s
build-docs	41s
	12m 25s

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