backport changes from maitenance/0.9.x (#293) #45

Job	Run time
code-lint	11s
run-tests (3.8, ubuntu-latest)	21s
run-tests (3.8, macos-12)	31s
run-tests (3.8, macos-latest)	51s
run-tests (3.8, windows-latest)	47s
run-tests (3.11, ubuntu-latest)	20s
run-tests (3.11, macos-12)	31s
run-tests (3.11, macos-latest)	18s
run-tests (3.11, windows-latest)	47s
run-tests (pypy3.8, ubuntu-latest)	1m 15s
run-tests (pypy3.8, macos-12)	1m 25s
run-tests (pypy3.8, macos-latest)	59s
run-tests (pypy3.8, windows-latest)	1m 53s
run-tests (ubuntu-20.04, 3.6)	27s
build-docs	32s
coverage	9s
	11m 17s

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