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+Optimised the documentation building workflow by providing control of whether
+tutorial ``jupyter notebook`` code cells are executed. By default, code cells
+will only be executed when building the documentation with either the
+``make html`` or ``make html-tutorial`` commands. (:user:`bjlittle`)