Updates all dependencies to latests versions (apart from the ones where
there are already issues to solve their updates).
Some updates required minor changes.
# Which Problems Are Solved
For switching v4.x releases to a corresponding maintenance branch, we
had to trick semantic release and create a `5.0.0-base` tag on main.
This now breaks the docs build, which tries to fetch all tags and build
a corresponding version.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Ignore pre-released tags/releases for the moment.
# Additional Changes
None
# Additional Context
- requires backport to v4.x
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