Resolve "Use vendored files for CI config"

Closes #57598

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25871

* dev/master:
  Update CHANGELOG.md for 11.8.3
  Update CHANGELOG.md for 11.7.7
  Only return `commands_changes` used in frontend

Fix project serialization in quick actions response

Closes #2826

See merge request gitlab/gitlabhq!3001

Fix Auto DevOps QA Smoke test hidden banner

Closes gitlab-org/quality/nightly#87

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26254

The banner is no longer being shown for empty repos since
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/26024 . We
could have made this assertion after pushing the repo but this is
not the thing that really needs to be in an integration or smoke test
as it is already tested in
spec/.../projects/show/user_interacts_with_auto_devops_banner_spec

Merge branch '59208-fix-error-500-on-every-page-when-active-broadcast-message-present-after-upgrading-to-11-9-0' into 'master'

Gracefully handles excluded fields from attributes during serialization on JsonCache

Closes #59208

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26368

Avoid loading pipeline status in project search

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26342

Update backup_restore.md instructions for Google Cloud Storage bucket...

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25628

doc/uploads: fix another path to omnibus uploads

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!22330

Move out link\unlink ability checks to a policy

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26278

Improve mobile UI on User Profile page

Closes #59057

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26240

Introduce yarn test to run Jest and Karma

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26320

Move reply to comment tooltip to the top

Closes #59198

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26366

Update 'DevOps and Game Dev with GitLab CI/CD' doc

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25944

Merge branch '6774-admin-dashboard-users-statistics-link-should-be-placed-differently' into 'master'

Backport of Admin Dashboard "Users Statistics" link should be placed differently

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26192

Add beta caution to hashed object pools

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26289

Fix note lists throughout docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26346

Backport of avoid_es_loading_commits

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26301

CE-port of 6571-single-codebase

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26355

Initialize discussionFilter after notesApp

Closes #58883

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26092

Removes EE differences for blank.scss

Closes gitlab-ee#10533

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26354

Removes EE differences from common.scss

Closes gitlab-ee#10532

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26352

Merge branch 'ee-6516-extract-ee-specific-files-lines-for-spec-models-project_services' into 'master'

Tweak kubernetes_service_spec for EE compatibility

Closes gitlab-ee#6516

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26155

Removes EE differences for builds.css

Closes gitlab-ee#10520

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26351

Removes EE differences for pipelines.scss

Closes gitlab-ee#10517

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26350

CE backport of forcing sending notifications to saml provided email

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25739

Adds conditional to close assignee menu when visible in EE

Reduce height of instance system message

Closes #58410

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25752

Move gfm_autocomplete_spec.rb out of quarantine

Closes #57995 and #56843

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25958