Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into release_26.2

Author: lsheikal

.github/workflows/run_tests.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
+        python-version: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
         group: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2