Description of the change

This PR brings changes on the main branch following the 0.8.0 release onto develop. The changelog and version are also updated to prepare develop for further development towards the next minor release.

Progress of the PR

• [n/a] Docstrings for all functions
• [n/a] Unit tests with pytest for all lines
• [n/a] Clean code style by running black via pre-commit

For reviewers

• The PR title is short, concise, and will make sense 1 year later.
• New functions are imported in corresponding __init__.py.
• New features, API changes, and deprecations are mentioned in the unreleased
  section in CHANGELOG.rst.
• New contributors are added to release.py, .zenodo.json and
  .all-contributorsrc with the table regenerated.