Draft: Release 2.0

What does this MR do?

This MR collects breaking, non-urgent changes for an upcoming 2.0 release.

• Changes should not be pushed directly to the pre-2.0 branch, but a MR should be created targeting this branch.
• After updating main, pre-2.0 should be rebased.

List of included MRs:

• !236 (merged)

Changes to public APIs

See the list of included MRs.

Author's checklist (required)

• The MR contains only changes from merged MRs.