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 ## Cherry-pick into master
 
 If you’ve released a patch version, you should cherry-pick the required commits into master (exclude version-bumping changes).
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+## Upgrade CI packages
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+To avoid the risk of CI suddenly failing and confusing pull request authors, we freeze some CI packages:
+
+- bandit
+- flake8
+- pylint
+- pytest-cov
+
+Right after a major or minor release would be a good time to update those packages, solving or allow-listing any issue raised by their new versions.
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