Use note access check though its policy

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25153

Docs: style changes to autodevops page

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25725

Change query for fetching lsif job artifact

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25529

Add pre 12.9 background migration commands

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25580

Docs: Fix link in NuGet repo docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25754

added note about whitelisting ip send usage ping

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!24315

Document Container Scanning DOCKER_INSECURE var

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25223

Add a cross link to a new Geo Framework

Closes #118743

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25525

Fix Typo: add/pull

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!24989

Remove extra gitlab_rails['omniauth_enabled'] flags

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!24945

Docs: Add group saml identity API response info

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25652

Fix variable passthrough in SAST template when using DinD

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25697

Fix typos in GitLab Maven Repository docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25610

Remove the FF note form Self monitoring project docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25761

Add note warning on changing titles

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25654

Modify archive rate limit to throttle by user

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25759

In the previous implementation, an unauthenticated user attempting to
download the archive repeatedly would interfere with authenticated
users. To avoid that, we increase the scope of the limiter to include
the user.

Inject CSP values when repository static objects external caching is enabled

Closes #198299

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25711

Rate limit archive endpoint by user

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25750

This adds a user-specific rate limit for the repository archive
endpoint:

1. For anonymous users, the rate is 100 downloads/minute.
2. For individual users, the rate is 5 downloads/minute.

Rename self monitor spec file

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25701

Improve grammar of principles.md

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25630

The autodevops page needed a few small stylistic changes; this
commit provides them. No technical information was changed in
this commit.

Refactor project/group variables UI into Vue - 3 / 4

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25468

Added neccessary components/tests
for the ci variables project/group
settings refactor to Vue.

Use clearer error for pages when SHA is outdated

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25659

Clarify the scope of the setting in ApprovalState model spec

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25540

Update version to 12.9.0-pre

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25726

Update version to 12.8.0 pre

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!25722