Merging 3a7796d into releases/v3.

Conductor for this PR is @angelapwen.

Contains the following pull requests:

• Mergeback v3.24.2 refs/heads/releases/v3 into main #2143 (@angelapwen)
• Fix an error when loading a configuration specified by the config input #2147 (@henrymercer)

Please do the following:

• Ensure the CHANGELOG displays the correct version and date.
• Ensure the CHANGELOG includes all relevant, user-facing changes since the last release.
• Check that there are not any unexpected commits being merged into the releases/v3 branch.
• Ensure the docs team is aware of any documentation changes that need to be released.
• Mark the PR as ready for review to trigger the full set of PR checks.
• Approve and merge this PR. Make sure Create a merge commit is selected rather than Squash and merge or Rebase and merge.
• Merge the mergeback PR that will automatically be created once this PR is merged.
• Merge all backport PRs to older release branches, that will automatically be created once this PR is merged.