Merge branch 'develop' into release/v_1.5.0

Author: shuds13

install/testing_requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 flake8==7.2.0
 coverage>=7.5
 pytest==8.3.5
-pytest-cov==6.0.0
+pytest-cov==6.1.1
 pytest-timeout==2.3.1
 mock==5.2.0
 python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0