Prepare release: 3.1.0

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This PR was created by the Release stage 1 - create release PR workflow, triggered by @MetRonnie

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• Milestone complete?
  1 other open issues/PRs on milestone 3.1.0 at time of PR creation
• Changelog up-to-date?
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  • "Released on" date updated? ✔️ 2023-10-05

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[MetRonnie]

Other open issue on this milestone is #195

[oliver-sanders]

(bumped the other issue)

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✔️ success

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