backport change to v4.0.1

[tkennedy1-godaddy]

Backport of #10353
Fixes #10339

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[leonardo-albertovich]

Thanks for submitting these PRs but we do not backport patches to previous patch levels which means in this case you'd submit a PR for master which represents 4.0.x and one for 3.2 which represents 3.2.x.

Because of that I'm closing this and #10356.