This MR includes:
- Dropping the column 'package_name_pattern_ilike_query'
  because it this column is not needed anymore
- Changes for the 2nd part for dropping a column based
  on the GitLab guide, see
  https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/database/avoiding_downtime_in_migrations.html#dropping-columns
- Changes relevant for protected packages

Changelog: removed

Add actor to auto_request_phone_number_verification_exemption FF

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144714



Merged-by: Smriti Garg <sgarg@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Marcos Rocha <mrocha@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Smriti Garg <sgarg@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Eugie Limpin <elimpin@gitlab.com>

Add Tokyo region

Closes gitlab-com/gl-infra/gitlab-dedicated/team#3505

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144747



Merged-by: Lysanne Pinto <lpinto@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Lysanne Pinto <lpinto@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Andrew Newdigate <andrew@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Fabian Zimmer <fzimmer@gitlab.com>

Adding bulk instructions

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144772



Merged-by: Phillip Wells <pwells@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Phillip Wells <pwells@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Suzanne Selhorn <sselhorn@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Isabel Sandin <isandin@gitlab.com>

Add TISAX compliance

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144189



Merged-by: Lysanne Pinto <lpinto@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Lysanne Pinto <lpinto@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Liz Coleman <lcoleman@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Fabian Zimmer <fzimmer@gitlab.com>

Refactor usage of ci-icon in related issuable

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144712



Merged-by: Phil Hughes <me@iamphill.com>
Approved-by: Sheldon Led <sheldonled@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Phil Hughes <me@iamphill.com>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Rincon <mrincon@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Sheldon Led <sheldonled@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Miguel Rincon <mrincon@gitlab.com>

Simplifies the CI icon usage in the related issuable component,
removing a redundant wrapper link.

Fixing rubocop exceptions in tests no 9

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144589



Merged-by: Huzaifa Iftikhar <hiftikhar@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Marcos Rocha <mrocha@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Huzaifa Iftikhar <hiftikhar@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Ross Byrne <robyrne@gitlab.com>

Changelog: changed

Solutions MR Template: Update details and file name

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144735



Merged-by: Suzanne Selhorn <sselhorn@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: DarwinJS <dsanoy@gitlab.com>

Update the Kaniko template to make the job be extendible

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144352



Merged-by: Furkan Ayhan <furkanayhn@gmail.com>
Approved-by: Michael Friedrich <mfriedrich@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Furkan Ayhan <furkanayhn@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetil.homme@redpill-linpro.com>

Define the build job as hidden so it can be extended more flexibly

GitLab CI does not merge arrays when extending existing jobs, so it
is not possible to add additional steps to `rules` or `script` without
cut-and-paste of the code into your own project.

With this patch, it can be accomplished by writing:

```yaml
kaniko-build:
  extends: .kaniko-build
  script:
    - !reference [.kaniko-build, script]
    - echo "One more command"
```

Changelog: other

Updates to GitGuardian documentation

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144514



Merged-by: Suzanne Selhorn <sselhorn@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Patrick Cyiza <jpcyiza@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Cyiza <jpcyiza@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Marie-Christine Babin <mbabin@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cyiza <jpcyiza@gitlab.com>

Add Deployment Approvals table to Details page

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144081



Merged-by: Andrew Fontaine <afontaine@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Pam Artiaga <partiaga@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Andrei Zubov <azubov@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Anna Vovchenko <avovchenko@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Fontaine <afontaine@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Rajendra Kadam <rkadam@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna Vovchenko <avovchenko@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrei Zubov <azubov@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Pam Artiaga <partiaga@gitlab.com>

We get to reuse the mutliple approval rules table built out for the
environments page, but the rest of the form needs to be re-done a bit.
We do get to use GraphQL mutations for the actions, though, and I think
eventually we are funnelling users here so those other components will
be deleted eventually.

DOES NOT SUPPORT DISPLAY UNIFIED APPROVAL RULES. I'm not sure if we need
to, as we're deprecating the functionality in 17.0, and the main
environments page still handles it.

Extract common parts of the Maven dependency proxy

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144324



Merged-by: Eugenia Grieff <egrieff@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Moaz Khalifa <mkhalifa@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Subashis Chakraborty <schakraborty@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Eugenia Grieff <egrieff@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: David Fernandez <dfernandez@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Moaz Khalifa <mkhalifa@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: David Fernandez <dfernandez@gitlab.com>

Extract the commong logic of the Maven dependency proxy to be re-usable
with other package formats.
Make the check ETag service generic as it is not tied to the Maven format.

Make the verify etag service more generic

Additional tweaks and cleanups

Rename "Runner" header to "Runner configuration"

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144216



Merged-by: Jose Ivan Vargas <jvargas@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Jose Ivan Vargas <jvargas@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Pennells <apennells@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Miguel Rincon <mrincon@gitlab.com>

Update runner table heading to runner configuration to make it clear
that more runners can be attached to each configuration.

Changelog: changed

AggregatedMetric property_name handling

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/138669



Merged-by: Madelein van Niekerk <mvanniekerk@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Jonas Larsen <jlarsen@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Madelein van Niekerk <mvanniekerk@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Larsen <jlarsen@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: michold <mwielich@gitlab.com>

Add redisHLL unique values reading for metrics

Updating links to more relevant ones

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144654



Merged-by: Marcel Amirault <mamirault@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Marcel Amirault <mamirault@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcel Amirault <mamirault@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Suzanne Selhorn <sselhorn@gitlab.com>

Because some links don't work
in air-gapped environments

Related to: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/441662

Readme: Fix anchor overflow behavior when collapsed (Firefox)

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144571



Merged-by: Brandon Labuschagne <blabuschagne@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Brandon Labuschagne <blabuschagne@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Julia Miocene <jmiocene@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Andrei Zubov <azubov@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrei Zubov <azubov@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Sascha Eggenberger <seggenberger@gitlab.com>

Fix error from using `inputs` in some cases

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144497



Merged-by: Laura Montemayor <lmontemayor@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Rajendra Kadam <rkadam@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Laura Montemayor <lmontemayor@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Rajendra Kadam <rkadam@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Avielle Wolfe <awolfe@gitlab.com>

Fix 16.9.0 changelog

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144756



Merged-by: Mayra Cabrera <mcabrera@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Mayra Cabrera <mcabrera@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Alessio Caiazza <acaiazza@gitlab.com>

Drop product_analytics_events_experimental table

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144626



Merged-by: Adam Hegyi <ahegyi@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Dmitry Gruzd <dgruzd@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Adam Hegyi <ahegyi@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: James Nutt <jnutt@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Max Woolf <mwoolf@gitlab.com>

Modified work item fragments to fetch type for all widgets

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144717



Merged-by: Coung Ngo <cngo@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Coung Ngo <cngo@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: NataliaTepluhina <tarya.se@gmail.com>

Fixing because of incident
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/17590

Update Gitaly version

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144744



Merged-by: release-tools approver bot <project278964_bot6@example.com>
Approved-by: release-tools approver bot <project278964_bot6@example.com>
Co-authored-by: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>

Revert "Merge branch '437616_fix_changelog_tag_detection' into 'master'"

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144730



Merged-by: Reuben Pereira <2967854-rpereira2@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Mayra Cabrera <mcabrera@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Vasilii Iakliushin <viakliushin@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Prabakaran Murugesan <pmurugesan@gitlab.com>

Ensure uniqueness p_ci_job_artifacts

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144574



Merged-by: Marius Bobin <mbobin@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Panos Kanellidis <pkanellidis@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Marius Bobin <mbobin@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Maxime Orefice <morefice@gitlab.com>

Changelog: other

Make approval rules only editable by group admins

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/144452



Merged-by: Alper Akgun <aakgun@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Serena Fang <sfang@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Alper Akgun <aakgun@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Alex Buijs <abuijs@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: ghinfey <ghinfey@gitlab.com>