Release v1.61.0

[Adamantios]

Proposed changes

Prepares for release v1.61.0.

Fixes

n/a

Types of changes

What types of changes does your code introduce to agents-aea?
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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 main branch (left side). Also you should start your branch off our main.
• 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

Further comments

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The base branch was changed.