Staging

[Linetmkandoe]

Description

Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed.
This PR merges changes from the staging branch to the main branch. After thorough testing in the staging environment, the updates are now ready for production.
Please also include relevant motivation and context.
List any dependencies that are required for this change.

Perhaps answering the following questions will help create a good description:

• What is this?

• This is a merge request to bring the tested and verified updates from the staging environment into the main branch, which is our production branch.

• Why this?

• This merge is necessary to deploy recent changes to production after testing in staging. It ensures the application in main is up-to-date and benefits from the latest fixes, new features, and optimizations that have been successfully validated.

• How are you doing this?

• I am merging the staging branch into main, which includes all commits that have passed the required testing phases in staging

Fixes # (issue) [Provide a link to the related Jira Task]

Type of change

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• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update
• Optimization
• Improvement
• Bug fix

How Has This Been Tested?

Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Provide instructions so we can reproduce. Please also list any relevant details for your test configuration

• Test A - e.g Manually tested user creation
• Test B

Checklist:

• My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• My changes generate no new warnings
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules