Merge releases/v3 into releases/v2

[henrymercer]

Merging ccf74c947 into releases/v2.

Conductor for this PR is @henrymercer.

Contains the following pull requests:

• 2263 (@angelapwen)

• 2265 (@koesie10)

• 2267 (@angelapwen)

• 2269 (@angelapwen)

• 2270 (@henrymercer)

• 2271 (@koesie10)

• 2272 (@marcogario)

• 2275 (@henrymercer)

Please do the following:

• [ ] Ensure the CHANGELOG displays the correct version and date.
• [ ] Ensure the CHANGELOG includes all relevant, user-facing changes since the last release.
• [ ] Check that there are not any unexpected commits being merged into the releases/v2 branch.
• [ ] Ensure the docs team is aware of any documentation changes that need to be released.
• [ ] Remove and re-add the "Update dependencies" label to the PR to trigger just this workflow.
• [ ] Wait for the "Update dependencies" workflow to push a commit updating the dependencies.
• [ ] Mark the PR as ready for review to trigger the full set of PR checks.
• [ ] Approve and merge this PR. Make sure Create a merge commit is selected rather than Squash and merge or Rebase and merge.

[github-actions[bot]]

Pushed a commit to update the checked-in dependencies. Please mark the PR as ready for review to trigger PR checks.

[henrymercer]

https://github.com/github/codeql-action/pull/2279 fixes the bug that prevented the automation from opening this PR.