Merge v2.10.x into main

[schlunma]

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Merge v2.10.x into main to get versioning correctly.

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[schlunma]

Closed in favor of https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool/pull/3489 to avoid pushing to v2.10.x when solving the merge conflict via GitHub.