Release v4.9.0

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Description

This PR is ready to be merged. The merge event will trigger¹ the:

1. creation of a v4.9.0 tag on main branch
2. build and release of the Python package to PyPi
3. compilation of the project's binaries with Nuitka (if entry points are defined)
4. publication of a GitHub release with all artifacts above attached

How-to release v4.9.0

1. click Re-run all jobs from the workflow run, to refresh the release date to today
2. wait for the re-run to complete and check the result in diff view
3. click Ready for review button below, to get this PR out of Draft mode
4. click Rebase and merge button below (‼️ do not Squash and merge: the auto-tagging job needs the 2 distinct commits in this PR)

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Workflow metadata

Auto-generated on run #10089962151 by prepare-release job from changelog.yaml workflow.

Footnotes

1. as defined by release.yaml. ↩