Release 2.6.0

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@JuliaRegistrator register()

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Registration pull request created: JuliaRegistries/General/24523

After the above pull request is merged, it is recommended that a tag is created on this repository for the registered package version.

This will be done automatically if the Julia TagBot GitHub Action is installed, or can be done manually through the github interface, or via:

git tag -a v2.6.0 -m "<description of version>" 4fd88b166b2c97363c95cc05225ef0d73cf85aec
git push origin v2.6.0

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