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changelogs/unreleased/11403-add-weight-wip-limit-to-list.yml

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-title: Add possibility to save max issue weight on lists
-merge_request: 19220
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/11506-add-additional-attributes-and-arguments-for-the-graphql-epic-query.yml

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-title: Add upvote/downvotes attributes to GraphQL Epic query
-merge_request: 14311
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/12390-document-sbt-support.yml

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-title: Document support for sbt dependency scanning
-merge_request: 21588
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/12811-add-pip-version-dep-scanning-flag.yml

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-title: Add CI variable to set the version of pip when scanning dependencies of Python projects
-merge_request: 21218
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/13075-document-gradle-support.yml

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-title: Add documentation about dependency scanning gradle support
-merge_request: 21253
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/13231-apollo-discussion-caching.yml

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-title: Removes caching for design tab discusisons
-merge_request: 20374
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/13768-fix-redo-icn.yml

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-title: Replacing incorrect icon in security dashboard.
-merge_request: 20510
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/13978-pipeline-security-remove-vuln-count.yml

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-title: Remove vulnerability counter from security tab
-merge_request: 20800
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/13979-dashboard-empty-state.yml

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-title: Use better context-specific empty state screens for the Security Dashboards
-merge_request: 18382
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/14857-new-metric-button-not-visible-when-prometheus-app-installed-on-grou.yml

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-title: Activate projects Prometheus service integration when Prometheus managed application is installed on shared cluster
-merge_request:
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/15398-mvc-container-registry-tag-expiration-policies.yml

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-title: Create container expiration policies for projects
-merge_request: 20412
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/16050-improve-first-mentioned-issue-metric-calc.yml

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-title: Adjust issue metrics first_mentioned_in_commit_at calculation
-merge_request: 20923
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/17580-enable-etag-caching-notes-for-mrs.yml

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-title: Enable ETag caching for MR notes polling
-merge_request: 20440
-author:
-type: performance

changelogs/unreleased/18668-clean-up-cohorts.yml

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-title: Clean up the cohorts table
-merge_request: 20779
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/20298-labels-management-is-not-accessible-when-issues-are-disabled.yml

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-title: Display Labels item in sidebar when Issues are disabled
-merge_request: 20817
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/20321-optional-only-jira-issue-link-on-gitlab-commit-no-jira-comment.yml

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-title: Add ability to make Jira comments optional
-merge_request: 19004
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/20890-soft-delete-user-api-status-code.yml

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-title: Adds 409 when user cannot be soft deleted through the API
-merge_request: 21037
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/21059-optimize-deploy-keys-index-page.yml

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-title: Optimize loading the repository deploy keys page
-merge_request: 20970
-author:
-type: performance

changelogs/unreleased/21800-mentioned-users-models-with-array-type.yml

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-title: Store users, groups, projects mentioned in Markdown to DB tables
-merge_request: 19088
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/21800-mentioned-users-table-migrations.yml

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-title: Creates DB tables for storing mentioned users, groups, projects referenced
-  in a note or issuable description
-merge_request: 18316
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/22392-remove-eks-cluster-feature-flag.yml

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-title: Enable creating Amazon EKS clusters from GitLab
-merge_request: 20333
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/22392-update-cluster-settings-provider-link.yml

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-title: Update external link to provider in cluster settings
-merge_request: 20425
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/22465-rack-attack-authenticate-runner-requests-with-job-token-basic-auth.yml

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-title: Authenticate requests with job token as basic auth header for request limiting
-merge_request: 21562
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/22465-rack-attack-authenticate-runner-requests.yml

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-title: Authenticate runner requests in Rack::Attack
-merge_request: 21311
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/23746-error-500-when-trying-to-destroy-oauth-application-entry-in-admin-a.yml

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-title: Use cascading deletes for deleting oauth_openid_requests upon deleting an oauth_access_grant
-merge_request: 19617
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/24190-archived-project-warning-message.yml

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-title: Show correct warning on issue when project is archived
-merge_request: 20078
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/24804-import-page-namespace-fix.yml

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-title: Fixed project import from export ignoring namespace selection
-merge_request: 20405
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/25351-texts-and-structure.yml

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-title: Update information and button text for deployment footer
-merge_request: 18918
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/26013-release-generation-from-within-gitlab-ci-yml-6.yml

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-title: Allow Job-Token authentication on Releases creation API
-merge_request: 20632
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/26019-add-evidence-json.yml

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-title: Add evidence collection for Releases
-merge_request: 18874
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/26019-restriction-on-evidence.yml

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-title: Evidence - Added restriction for guest on Release page
-merge_request: 21102
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/26293-prevent-merge-if-pipeline-has-failed.yml

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-title: Update merging an MR behavior on the API when pipeline fails
-merge_request: 19641
-author: briankabiro
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/27025-add-border-top-in-readme.yml

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-title: Fix top border of README file header in file list
-merge_request: 21314
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/27239-display-a-better-message-when-starting-a-discussion-on-a-deleted-co.yml

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-title: Display a better message when starting a discussion on a deleted comment
-merge_request: 20031
-author: Jacopo Beschi @jacopo-beschi
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/27244-discard-all-changes.yml

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-title: Fix "Discard all" for new and renamed files
-merge_request: 21854
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/27244-webide-discard-all-changes.yml

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-title: "Web IDE: Fix the console error that happens when discarding a newly added/uploaded file."
-merge_request: 21537
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/27630-deploy-to-ci-specified-namespace.yml

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-title: Use CI configured namespace for deployments to unmanaged clusters
-merge_request: 20686
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/27630-fail-build-if-namespace-specified-in-ci-for-managed-cluster.yml

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-title: Do not allow specifying a Kubernetes namespace via CI template for managed
-  clusters
-merge_request: 21223
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/27630-specify-kubernetes-namespace-in-ci-template.yml

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-title: Allow specifying Kubernetes namespace for an environment in gitlab-ci.yml
-merge_request: 20270
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/27630-use-ci-specified-namespace-for-deploy-boards.yml

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-title: Allow Kubernetes namespaces specified via CI template to be used for terminals,
-  pod logs and deploy boards
-merge_request: 21460
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/28075-error-while-fetching-envs.yml

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-title: Added lightweight check when retrieving Prometheus metrics.
-merge_request: 21099
-author:
-type: performance

changelogs/unreleased/28328-lock-button-fix.yml

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-title: Unlock button changed from Icon to String
-merge_request: 20307
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/28365-bypass-confirmation-box-for-delete-user-and-contributions.yml

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-title: Fix delete user dialog bypass caused by hitting enter
-merge_request: 17343
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/29067-vrt-no-auth.yml

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-title: Remove authentication step from visual review tools instructions
-merge_request:
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/29165-confusing-wording-fix.yml

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-title: Fixes wording on runner admin
-merge_request:
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/29713-graphql-add-issue-weight-sorting.yml

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-title: Graphql query for issues can now be sorted by weight
-merge_request: 19721
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/30016-changing-branch-keep-details.yml

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-title: Keep details in MR when changing target branch
-merge_request: 19138
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/30036-award-emoji-tooltip-is-escaped-twice.yml

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-title: Fix award emoji tooltip being escaped twice if multiple people voted
-merge_request: 19273
-author: Brian T
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/30390-cablett-duplicate-labels-nonunique-index.yml

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-title: Add nonunique indexes to Labels
-merge_request: 21230
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/30666-fix-sr-term-style.yml

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-title: Changes to how the search term is styled in the results
-merge_request: 20416
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/31031-gitaly-n-1-queries-in-api-version-groups-id.yml

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-title: Limit number of projects displayed in GET /groups/:id API
-merge_request: 20023
-author:
-type: deprecated

changelogs/unreleased/31236-auto-update-merge-widget.yml

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-title: Allow merge without refresh when new commits are pushed
-merge_request: 19725
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/31391-update-sparkline-chart-deployment-widget.yml

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-title: Improve sparkline chart in MR widget deployment
-merge_request: 20085
-author:
-type: other

changelogs/unreleased/31397-go-get-meta-source.yml

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-title: Support go-source meta tag for godoc.org
-merge_request: 19888
-author: Ethan Reesor (@firelizzard)
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/31611-limit-the-number-of-stored-sessions-per-user.yml

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-title: Resolve Limit the number of stored sessions per user
-merge_request: 19325
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/31649-environment-rollback-was-not-friendly.yml

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-title: Resolve environment rollback was not friendly
-merge_request: 20121
-author:
-type: other

changelogs/unreleased/31662-fix-excessive-find-file-escaping.yml

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-title: Fix project file finder url encoding file path separators
-merge_request: 21861
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/31759-clear-cluster-cache.yml

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-title: Add option to delete cached Kubernetes namespaces
-merge_request: 20411
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/31830-limit-mr-target-branches.yml

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-title: Require group_id or project_id for MR target branch autocomplete action
-merge_request: 20933
-author:
-type: performance

changelogs/unreleased/31914-graphql-mark-all-todos-as-done-pd.yml

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-title: Add GraphQL mutation to mark all todos done for a user
-merge_request: 19482
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/31914-graphql-todo-query-support-multiple-query.yml

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-title: Enable support for multiple content query in GraphQL Todo API
-merge_request: 19576
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/31914-graphql-todo-restore-pd.yml

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-title: Add GraphQL mutation to restore a Todo
-merge_request: 20261
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/32115-structured-logging-mail_room.yml

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-title: Upgrade `mail_room` gem to 0.10.0 and enable structured logging
-merge_request: 19186
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/32358-add-modsec-blocking-usage-stats-per-project.yml

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-title: Add modsecurity deployment counts to usage ping
-merge_request: 20196
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/32470-ui-degradation-on-environment-folder-view.yml

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-title: Fix broken UI on Environment folder
-merge_request: 17427
-author: Takuya Noguchi
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/32557-convert-generic-epic-error-banners-to-form-validation-messages.yml

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-title: Convert flash epic error to form validation error
-merge_request: 20130
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/32557-fix-error-adding-already-linked-issue.yml

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-title: Fix error when linking already linked issue to epic
-merge_request: 21213
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/32778-change-retries-approach-promql-queries.yml

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-title: Improve the way the metrics dashboard waits for data
-merge_request: 20687
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/32780-when-zooming-metrics-at-some-point-we-can-t-adjust-the-zoom-any-fur.yml

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-title: Fixed monitor charts from throwing error when zoomed
-merge_request: 20331
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/32897-convert-alerts-to-toasts.yml

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-title: Convert flash alerts to toasts
-merge_request: 20356
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/32959-dismissal-ux-improvement.yml

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-title: Improve UX for vulnerability dismissal note
-merge_request: 20768
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/33052-design-comment-link-styling.yml

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-title: Add link color to design comments
-merge_request: 20302
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/33099-add-pipelines-api-order-by-updated-at.yml

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-title: Allow order_by updated_at in Pipelines API
-merge_request: 19886
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/33099-updated_at-filters-for-pipelines-api.yml

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-title: Add updated_before and updated_after filters to the Pipelines API endpoint
-merge_request: 21133
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/33257-prevent-accidental-deletions-via-soft-delete-for-groups-services.yml

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-title: Add services for 'soft-delete for groups' feature
-merge_request: 19358
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/33257-prevent-accidental-deletions-via-soft-delete-for-groups-workers.yml

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-title: Add workers for 'soft-delete for groups' feature
-merge_request: 19679
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/33318-make-internal-projects-poolable.yml

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-title: Make internal projects poolable
-merge_request: 19295
-author: briankabiro
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/33338-notify-user-if-they-have-over-1000-epics-in-roadmap.yml

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-title: Notify user when over 1000 epics in roadmap
-merge_request: 19419
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/33482-allow-text-wrapping-on-repository-tags-page.yml

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-title: Allow patch notes on repo tags page to word wrap
-merge_request: 20135
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/33596-package-ci-build-data.yml

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-title: Add Pipeline Metadata to Packages
-merge_request: 19796
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/33596-package-ci-metadata.yml

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-title: Improve job tokens and provide access helper
-merge_request: 19793
-author:
-type: other

changelogs/unreleased/33718-add-new-dep-scanning-flag.yml

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-title: Add dependency scanning flag for skipping automatic bundler audit update
-merge_request: 20743
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/33880-add-api-to-disable-pages.yml

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-title: Add API endpoint to unpublish GitLab Pages
-merge_request: 19781
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/34067-add-recent-searches-to-sentry-error-list-in-gitlab.yml

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-title: Add recent search to error tracking
-merge_request: 19301
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/34068-sort-by-first-seen-last-seen-and-frequency-in-sentry-error-list-in-.yml

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-title: Add sort param to error tracking issue index
-merge_request: 20101
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/34068-sort-error-list.yml

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-title: Sort Sentry error list by first seen, last seen or frequency
-merge_request: 21250
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/34121-add-error-states-to-getters.yml

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-title: Add specific error states to dashboard
-merge_request: 21618
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/34121-group-level-no-data-store.yml

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-title: Add empty region when group metrics are missing
-merge_request: 20900
-author:
-type: fixed

changelogs/unreleased/34157-apm_snowplow_events.yml

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-title: Add snowplow events for APM
-merge_request: 19463
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/34157-snowplow-custom-events-for-monitor-apm.yml

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-title: Add snowplow events for monitoring dashboard
-merge_request: 19455
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/34261-service-desk-to-api.yml

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-title: Add service desk information to projects API endpoint
-merge_request: 20913
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/34261-service-desk-to-graphql.yml

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-title: Add service desk information to project graphQL endpoint
-merge_request: 20722
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/34261-toggle-service-desk.yml

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-title: Support toggling service desk from API
-merge_request: 21627
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/34377-design-view-download-single-issue-design-image.yml

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-title: 'Resolve Design view: Download single issue design image'
-merge_request: 20703
-author:
-type: added

changelogs/unreleased/34406-link-to-merge-trains-documentation-on-mr-widget-is-incorrect.yml

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-title: Correct link to Merge trains documentation on MR widget
-merge_request: 19726
-author:
-type: changed

changelogs/unreleased/34457-remove-n-plus-1-search.yml

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-title: Remove an N+1 call rendering projects search results
-merge_request: 21626
-author:
-type: performance

changelogs/unreleased/34636-drop-deprecated-column-from-projects-table.yml

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-title: Drop deprecated column from projects table
-merge_request: 18914
-author:
-type: deprecated

changelogs/unreleased/34685-Pages-template-jekyll-outdated-and-not-working-as-expected.yml

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-title: Updated jekyll project_template
-merge_request: 20090
-author: Marc Schwede
-type: other

changelogs/unreleased/34734-monitor-dashboard-does-not-expand-sections-that-have-data-on-load.yml

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-title: Fix graph groups in monitor dashboard that are hidden on load
-merge_request: 20312
-author:
-type: fixed