Clean up orphaned LFS file references during GC

Closes #223621

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!38813

Replace .com checks with app setting checks

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39150

Add variable expansion to cross pipeline artifacts

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!36578

Variables can be specified when adding cross project dependencies with
needs:

```
build_job:
  stage: build
  script:
    - ls -lhR
  needs:
    - project: $CI_PROJECT_PATH
      job: $SOME_JOB_NAME_IN_OTHER_PROJECT
      ref: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH
      artifacts: true
```

Limit webhook payload size to 25MB

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!38687

Enable :resource_access_token feature flag by default

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39287

Increase contrast between UTC label and input

Closes #219638

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!34998

Add `sse_erb_support` feature flag

Closes #235176

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39195

Make CreatePipelineService to use a dry_run mode

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!37134

This allows a pipeline creation to fully run while skipping
the persistence steps. In the end it returns a non-persisted
pipeline with all its errors and warnings.

This feature is useful to allow CI Lint to use the actual
pipeline creation and display all errors rather than using
only YamlProcessor.

Replace depreciated button in jobs item

Closes #219774

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!38923

Step 2 - Fix blob editor lite scroll

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39251

Improve snippet specs by adding Dynamic Element Validation on saving

Closes #233991

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39178

Add a top-level GraphQL query for an iteration

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!38692

Load project list only during loading the Security Dashboard

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39263

At the moment, users have no way to clean up orphaned LFS objects in
their repositories. Ideally, this would happen automatically, but in
the meantime, making it part of project housekeeping - which can be
manually triggered, and is also used during project cleanup, which is
often used as part of the "remove LFS from this repository" flow -
solves a pressing need.

Collect node CPU and memory utilization in usage ping

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!38681

Merge branch '232509-improve-performance-of-show-action-for-projects-commitcontroller-under-load-into-s2-tier' into 'master'

Load commit diff_files asynchronously

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!38450

This is an attempt to improve the commit page load performance.
This improve the user interaction timing, but it does not load
diff_files in batches yet.

Update dependency @gitlab/ui to v18.6.2

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39289

Add data to commented_by field

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39237

Adds a simple lookup for note authors who are approvers for an
MR.

Drop minimum required Git version to v2.24.0 again

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39185

Replace fa-sign-out icons with GitLab SVG leave/close icon

Closes #225895

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!37794

Remove the introduction banner once and for all

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!38967

Value stream switch dropdown sorting

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39170

Updates the related create value stream specs
to check inside the dropdown

Change coverage fuzzing prefix to COVFUZZ

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!38441

This change improves the performance of loading next pages of
Vulnerabilities in Group Security Dashboard by loading list of projects
only once at the page load instead of reloading them every time user
fetches new page.

Toggle epic confidential

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!37678

Add "Add panel" item to dashboard actions menu

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39194

Add a new link to allow users to navigate to the panel preview page.
The new link is added directly in the actions menu.

Merge branch '217858-improve-productivity-analytics-error-when-query-takes-too-long-to-calculate' into 'master'

Improve Productivity Analytics error message

Closes #217858

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39074

- This improves the error message
when a query takes too long
to calculate

Merge branch '208805-fix-filter-by-releases-in-groups-issue-and-merge-request-search-bar' into 'master'

Fix filter by releases at group issues and merge requests search bar

Closes #208805

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!26740

Closes https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/208805

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/26740

Add _links to epics API

Closes #230586

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!37395