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*: cherry pick for 1.7.3 (#4172)

Cherry picking #4169 and #4170

category: misc
ticket: none

app/version: bump v1.7 to stable (#4145)

* app/version: bump v1.7 to stable

* empty commit

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Add blinded vs unblinded metric