Merging 0bbf22e into v1

Conductor for this PR is @alexet

Contains the following pull requests:

• Mergeback v1.0.17 refs/heads/v1 into main #765 - Mergeback v1.0.17 refs/heads/v1 into main (@edoardopirovano)
• Temporarily disable new style of tracing #766 - Temporarily disable new style of tracing (@alexet)

Please review the following:

• The CHANGELOG displays the correct version and date.
• The CHANGELOG includes all relevant, user-facing changes since the last release.
• There are no unexpected commits being merged into the v1 branch.
• The docs team is aware of any documentation changes that need to be released.
• The mergeback PR is merged back into main after this PR is merged.