Release/v1.1.9 beta #1377

Job	Run time
test-gpu-kkt / test (1, kkt, x64)	6m 27s
test-cpu-github / test (1.12, macos-latest, x64)	11m 39s
test-cpu-github / test (1.12, ubuntu-latest, x64)	11m 18s
	29m 24s

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