MAINT - CI improvements (security and maintenance) #542

Job	Run time
a11y-tests (ubuntu-latest, 3.12)	3m 38s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.9)	1m 27s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	1m 40s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.11)	1m 36s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.12)	1m 50s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.13)	1m 8s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.9)	1m 53s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.10)	1m 57s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.11)	1m 44s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.12)	1m 47s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.13)	1m 12s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.10)	3m 14s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.11)	3m 13s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.12)	4m 6s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.13)	4m 7s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.9)	3m 19s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.10)	2m 55s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.11)	3m 24s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.12)	3m 21s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.13)	2m 58s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.9, 6.1)	1m 31s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.12, dev)	1m 55s
profiling	31s
Check coverage	35s
coverage-comment / Display code coverage	0s
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