Release v1.56.0

[Adamantios]

Proposed changes

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Fixes

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• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

Checklist

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• I have read the CONTRIBUTING doc
• I am making a pull request against the develop branch (left side). Also you should start your branch off our develop.
• Lint and unit tests pass locally with my changes and CI passes too
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• I have checked that code coverage does not decrease.
• I have added necessary documentation (if appropriate)
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules

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Release summary

Version number: [e.g. 1.0.1]

Release details

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Checklist

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• I have read the CONTRIBUTING doc
• I am making a pull request against the main branch (left side), from develop
• Lint and unit tests pass locally and in CI
• I have checked the fingerprint hashes are correct by running (aea packages lock --check)
• I have regenerated the latest API docs
• I built the documentation and updated it with the latest changes
• I have added an item in HISTORY.md for this release
• I bumped the version number in the aea/__version__.py file.
• I bumped the version number in every Docker image of the repo and published it. Also, I built and published them with tag latest
  (check the READMEs of aea-develop
  and aea-user)
• I have pushed the latest packages to the registry.
• I have uploaded the latest aea to PyPI.
• I have uploaded the latest plugins to PyPI.

Further comments

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