Proposed changes

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Types of changes

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• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

Checklist

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• I have read the CONTRIBUTING doc
• I have added necessary documentation (if appropriate)
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules

Further comments

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