v0.5.38 release (latest)

v0.5.38 release notes for the GitHub Release v0.5.38 (release task: Issue #1274).

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`v0.5.38`	annotated tag `bbf79ccb93b19648cafe1914a8fca9018866ba0a`	commit `0219486915e88410cbfa9bfe114a0f35efb5d994`

Review re-raises a finding after its acceptance criterion was removed from the Issue body (Issue #1273; PR #1275)
CI failure: tests on PR #1276 (pull_request) (Issue #1277; PR #1276)