MAINT - CI improvements (security and maintenance) #677

Job	Run time
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.9)	2m 2s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	2m 32s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.11)	1m 32s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.12)	1m 42s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.13)	55s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.9)	1m 44s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.10)	1m 34s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.11)	1m 38s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.12)	1m 57s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.13)	56s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.10)	6m 32s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.11)	5m 54s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.12)	5m 52s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.13)	6m 51s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.9)	2m 57s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.10)	2m 32s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.11)	2m 30s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.12)	3m 30s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.13)	2m 11s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.9, 6.1)	1m 37s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.12, dev)	2m 5s
Check coverage	43s
profiling	36s
coverage-comment / Display code coverage	0s
	1h 0m 22s

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