Description

closes #4209

The pull request will significantly impact the development environment, necessitating a longer integration period before merging.

Types of changes

• 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)
• Improvement/refactoring (non-breaking change that doesn't add any feature but make things better)