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+## 12.6.0
+
+### Fixed (32 changes, 5 of them are from the community)
+
+- Exclude forks from Group Security Dashboard filter. !14667
+- Clarify why Service Desk feature is unavailable. !19244
+- Bump code quality version in template to 0.85.5. !19354
+- Nullify user roles that have been accidentaly set to a value of 0. !19569
+- Display CI Minutes warning only if minutes left is still below last level. !19751
+- Add a unique constraint to `software_licenses.name` column. !19840
+- Link user accounts to new Smartcards identities on login. !20059
+- Allow valid namespace paths with dots for api PUT. !20079
+- Map software license names from the v1 license scan report to an equivalent SPDX identifer. !20195
+- Prefer sending external pull request pipeline statuses over general statuses to GitHub. !20364
+- Abort rendering of security reports that aren't enabled. !20381
+- Fix Infinite Scrolling on Environments Dashboard Project Selector. !20408
+- Link user accounts to new Smartcards certificate ldap identities on login. !20470
+- Handle design repositories when moving a project to a new storage. !20509
+- Resolve Version dropdown goes wrong if versions are not monotonic. !20515 (Tom Quirk)
+- Turn auto_complete_issues on by default. !20525
+- Handle design repositories when moving existing projects to Hashed Storage. !20540
+- Fix dependency metadata on the NPM registry responses. !20549
+- Fix the hiding of undismissed vulnerabilities. !20599
+- Fix check for existing ES limited indexing IDs. !20866
+- Show actions area for fixed vulnerabilities in merge requests. !20867
+- Fix typo in Kubernetes GKE setup error message. !21091
+- Include projects in subgroups in group boards relative position. !21189
+- Fix inability to add comments to a discussion in Design Management. !21229
+- Fix Infinity % / Infinity % on Stacked Progress Bar. !21437
+- Fix sort icon direction when sorting by weight. !21447 (Jan Beckmann)
+- Auto-focus title text box when creating new epics. !21516 (Jan Beckmann)
+- Fix analytics icon alignment. !21555
+- Invalid trial form to remember user & country. !21840
+- Fix styling on contribution analytics dashboard. !207012 (briankabiro)
+- Add correct link to milestone in groups for issuables list after refactor.
+- Show the proper message when adding a duplicate issue to an epic. (20175)
+
+### Changed (13 changes, 1 of them is from the community)
+
+- Make "Learn more about" links for security scanning popovers on merge request page open in new tab. !13333 (Daniel Tian)
+- Redirect Admin > Settings > Geo to Admin > Geo > Settings. !19833
+- Expose epic_id parameter in issues API. !19953
+- Allow to login with Smartcard certificates using SAN extensions that only defines one global email identity. !20052
+- Update SAST.gitlab-ci.yml - Add kubesec analyzer. !20129
+- Update start trial CTA in top right banner to only appear if all namespaces are free. !20177
+- Update billing page trial CTAs. !20383
+- Rename software_license_policies.approval_status to software_license_policies.classification. !20414
+- Add ability to edit Group Hooks. !20898
+- Improve the performance of group templates finder. !20947
+- Hide elasticsearch namespaces and projects when too many in rollout. !21225
+- Update Explore Geo Page. !21448
+- Renamed Conversational Development Index feature to DevOps Score.
+
+### Performance (1 change)
+
+- Do not trigger count query for pagination without count. !21232
+
+### Added (24 changes, 2 of them are from the community)
+
+- Add new approval rule type which allows anyone to approve. !15378
+- Add Personal access token expiry policy. !17344
+- Expose time logs for group issues via the GraphQL API. !18689
+- Add application settings needed for soft-deletion. !18790
+- Add link to new epic for promoted issues. !18839 (Jan Beckmann)
+- Use issue templates on service desk(backend). !19515
+- Log history for gitlab_subscriptions table. !19694
+- Resolve Show plan of root group on subgroup details page. !20218
+- Adjust group members API to include group SAML info. !20357
+- Add user ability to append template to incoming service desk issues. !20476
+- Add audit event when member access is removed due to expiration. !20529
+- Update CI templates to use sitespeed 11.2.0. !20561
+- Added migration for issue link types. !20617
+- Add security configuration navigation item. !20711
+- Create a new database composite index to support cross-project artifacts downloads. !20721
+- Add deployment API updated_at filters. !20731
+- Show loading spinner in design card while design is uploading. !20814
+- Add most affected projects to group security dashboard. !20892
+- Introduce Credentials Inventory. !20912
+- Add GraphQL mutation for changing weight of an issue. !21331
+- Cache vulnerability findings history endpoint for security dashboards. !21349
+- Added Marginalia feature which can generate PostgreSQL query comments to Gitlab. !21364 (BalaKumar)
+- Add API for states by country. !21417
+- Improved trials sign up for gitlab.com. !21650
+
+### Other (8 changes, 2 of them are from the community)
+
+- Store and look up design management version authorship from database. !17322
+- Remove redundant ManagedLicenses controller. !20131 (briankabiro)
+- Updated board_service.js to use boardStore directly. !20141 (nuwe1)
+- Delete any stale deploy access levels by group. !20689
+- Add project webhooks limits on GitLab.com. !20730
+- Remove the design_management_flag feature flag from the codebase. The feature flag toggles the Design Management feature, and has been enabled by default since 12.2. !20883
+- Remove operations_feature_flags_clients.token column. !21016
+- Update the alerts used in the Dependency List to follow GitLab design guidelines. !21760
+
+
 ## 12.5.5
 
 - No changes.

ee/changelogs/unreleased/10076-remove-managed-licenses-controller.yml

----
-title: Remove redundant ManagedLicenses controller
-merge_request: 20131
-author: briankabiro
-type: other

ee/changelogs/unreleased/10433-add-edit-button-to-group-webhooks.yml

----
-title: Add ability to edit Group Hooks
-merge_request: 20898
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/10741-time-tracking-report-per-person-in-a-given-group.yml

----
-title: Expose time logs for group issues via the GraphQL API
-merge_request: 18689
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/10io-add-npm-dependencies-support.yml

----
-title: Fix dependency metadata on the NPM registry responses
-merge_request: 20549
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/11190-show-most-affected-projects-in-group-security-dashboard.yml

----
-title: Add most affected projects to group security dashboard
-merge_request: 20892
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/11560-exclude-forks-security-dashboard.yml

----
-title: Exclude forks from Group Security Dashboard filter
-merge_request: 14667
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/118457-invalid-trial-form-does-not-remember-the-user-and-country-field.yml

----
-title: Invalid trial form to remember user & country
-merge_request: 21840
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/11873-use-gl-alert-in-dependency-list-ee.yml

----
-title: Update the alerts used in the Dependency List to follow GitLab design guidelines
-merge_request: 21760
-author:
-type: other

ee/changelogs/unreleased/12702-no-audit-event-when-access-is-removed-due-to-expiration.yml

----
-title: Add audit event when member access is removed due to expiration
-merge_request: 20529
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/12928-design-management-displays-broken-image-while-uploading.yml

----
-title: Show loading spinner in design card while design is uploading
-merge_request: 20814
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/13226-version-dropdown-goes-wrong-if-versions-are-not-monotonic.yml

----
-title: Resolve Version dropdown goes wrong if versions are not monotonic
-merge_request: 20515
-author: Tom Quirk
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/13254-issue-relative-position-scope-in-group-boards-does-not-include-p.yml

----
-title: Include projects in subgroups in group boards relative position
-merge_request: 21189
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/13297-track-historical-information-for-the-gitlab_subscriptions-table.yml

----
-title: Log history for gitlab_subscriptions table
-merge_request: 19694
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/13333-secure-open-help-links-in-new-tab.yml

----
-title: Make "Learn more about" links for security scanning popovers on merge request
-  page open in new tab
-merge_request: 13333
-author: Daniel Tian
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/13426-backfill-version-data.yml

----
-title: Store and look up design management version authorship from database
-merge_request: 17322
-author:
-type: other

ee/changelogs/unreleased/13638-add-configuration-screen-for-secure-features-navigation-item.yml

----
-title: Add security configuration navigation item
-merge_request: 20711
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/13709-remove-design-management-flag.yml

----
-title: Remove the design_management_flag feature flag from the codebase. The feature
-  flag toggles the Design Management feature, and has been enabled by default since
-  12.2.
-merge_request: 20883
-author:
-type: other

ee/changelogs/unreleased/14755-clarify-why-service-desk-feature-is-unavailable.yml

----
-title: Clarify why Service Desk feature is unavailable
-merge_request: 19244
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/14793-missing-security-reports-be.yml

----
-title: Abort rendering of security reports that aren't enabled
-merge_request: 20381
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/2030-ability-to-append-user-template-to-incoming-service-desk-issues.yml

----
-title: Add user ability to append template to incoming service desk issues
-merge_request: 20476
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/24089-github-integration-sends-status-from-multiple-pipelines-when-usi.yml

----
-title: Prefer sending external pull request pipeline statuses over general statuses
-  to GitHub
-merge_request: 20364
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/28084-project-webhook-limits.yml

----
-title: Add project webhooks limits on GitLab.com
-merge_request: 20730
-author:
-type: other

ee/changelogs/unreleased/31938-move-geo-settings.yml

----
-title: Redirect Admin > Settings > Geo to Admin > Geo > Settings
-merge_request: 19833
-author: 
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/32767-display-cancel-for-fixed-vulnerabilities.yml

----
-title: Show actions area for fixed vulnerabilities in merge requests
-merge_request: 20867
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/32935-preventing-accidental-project-deletion-application-settings.yml

----
-title: Add application settings needed for soft-deletion
-merge_request: 18790
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/33101-add-updated_after-to-deployments-api.yml

----
-title: Add deployment API updated_at filters
-merge_request: 20731
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/33494-delete-stale-deploy-access-levels-by-group.yml

----
-title: Delete any stale deploy access levels by group
-merge_request: 20689
-author:
-type: other

ee/changelogs/unreleased/33669-link-current-users-to-new-smartcards.yml

----
-title: Link user accounts to new Smartcards identities on login
-merge_request: 20059
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/33681-handle-too-many-elasticsearch-rollout.yml

----
-title: Hide elasticsearch namespaces and projects when too many in rollout
-merge_request: 21225
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/33899-remove-history-cache-ff.yml

----
-title: Cache vulnerability findings history endpoint for security dashboards
-merge_request: 21349
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/33907-smartcard-flex-single-san-email-entries.yml

----
-title: Allow to login with Smartcard certificates using SAN extensions that only defines
-  one global email identity
-merge_request: 20052
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/34825-legacy-ids.yml

----
-title: Map software license names from the v1 license scan report to an equivalent SPDX identifer
-merge_request: 20195
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/34947-erroneous-ci_usage_warning_message.yml

----
-title: Display CI Minutes warning only if minutes left is still below last level
-merge_request: 19751
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/35308-list-connected-group-saml-identities.yml

----
-title: Adjust group members API to include group SAML info
-merge_request: 20357
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/35448-issuables-list-refactor-when-clicking-milestone-adds-search-filter.yml

----
-title: Add correct link to milestone in groups for issuables list after refactor
-merge_request:
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/35697-drop-operations-feature-flags-clients-token.yml

----
-title: Remove operations_feature_flags_clients.token column
-merge_request: 21016
-author:
-type: other

ee/changelogs/unreleased/35733-eliminate-feature-flag.yml

----
-title: Improve the performance of group templates finder
-merge_request: 20947
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/35938-add-unique-constraint.yml

----
-title: Add a unique constraint to `software_licenses.name` column
-merge_request: 19840
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36317-graphql-mutation-for-changing-weight-of-an-issue.yml

----
-title: Add GraphQL mutation for changing weight of an issue
-merge_request: 21331
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36402-update-start-trial-cta-in-top-right-banner-to-only-appear-if-all-na.yml

----
-title: Update start trial CTA in top right banner to only appear if all namespaces
-  are free
-merge_request: 20177
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/3649-pat-expiry-policy.yml

----
-title: Add Personal access token expiry policy
-merge_request: 17344
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36525-remove-feature-flag-for-new-trial-sign-up-flow.yml

----
-title: Improved trials sign up for gitlab.com
-merge_request: 21650
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36742-pat-ssh-inventory-mvc.yml

----
-title: Introduce Credentials Inventory
-merge_request: 20912
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36747-update-billing-page-trial-ctas.yml

----
-title: Update billing page trial CTAs
-merge_request: 20383
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36782-rename-approval-status.yml

----
-title: Rename software_license_policies.approval_status to software_license_policies.classification
-merge_request: 20414
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36808-link-smartcard-ldap-certs-to-users.yml

----
-title: Link user accounts to new Smartcards certificate ldap identities on login
-merge_request: 20470
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36809-projects-update-repository-storage-service-should-handle-design-.yml

----
-title: Handle design repositories when moving a project to a new storage
-merge_request: 20509
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36952-migrate-existing-projects-to-hashed-storage-must-handle-design-r.yml

----
-title: Handle design repositories when moving existing projects to Hashed Storage
-merge_request: 20540
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/36958-fix-undismissed.yml

----
-title: Fix the hiding of undismissed vulnerabilities
-merge_request: 20599
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/37028-epic-placeholder-text.yml

----
-title: Auto-focus title text box when creating new epics
-merge_request: 21516
-author: Jan Beckmann
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/37067-sort-direction-icon.yml

----
-title: Fix sort icon direction when sorting by weight
-merge_request: 21447
-author: Jan Beckmann
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/37327-fix-duplicate-container-ids.yml

----
-title: Fix check for existing ES limited indexing IDs
-merge_request: 20866
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/37411-typo-kubernetes-gke-setup-error-message-shows-property-connected.yml

----
-title: Fix typo in Kubernetes GKE setup error message
-merge_request: 21091
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/6830-fix-contribution-analytics-styling.yml

----
-title: Fix styling on contribution analytics dashboard
-merge_request: 207012
-author: briankabiro
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/7707-fix-infinity-progress.yml

----
-title: Fix Infinity % / Infinity % on Stacked Progress Bar
-merge_request: 21437
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/8831-show-plan-of-parent-group-on-subgroup-details-page.yml

----
-title: Resolve Show plan of root group on subgroup details page
-merge_request: 20218
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/9233-update-explore-geo-page.yml

----
-title: Update Explore Geo Page
-merge_request: 21448
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/9898-issue-epic-indication.yml

----
-title: Add link to new epic for promoted issues
-merge_request: 18839
-author: Jan Beckmann
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/Update-board_service-js-to-use-boardsStore.yml

----
-title: Updated board_service.js to use boardStore directly
-merge_request: 20141
-author: nuwe1
-type: other

ee/changelogs/unreleased/add-infinite-scroll.yml

----
-title: Fix Infinite Scrolling on Environments Dashboard Project Selector
-merge_request: 20408
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/add-kubesc-to-sast-template.yml

----
-title: Update SAST.gitlab-ci.yml - Add kubesec analyzer
-merge_request: 20129
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/ag-rename-convdev-frontend.yml

----
-title: Renamed Conversational Development Index feature to DevOps Score
-merge_request:
-author:
-type: changed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/allow_dots_in_namespace_path_for_puts.yml

----
-title: Allow valid namespace paths with dots for api PUT
-merge_request: 20079
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/cross-projects-artifacts-dependencies.yml

----
-title: Create a new database composite index to support cross-project artifacts downloads
-merge_request: 20721
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/eb-bump-code-quality-template-version.yml

----
-title: Bump code quality version in template to 0.85.5
-merge_request: 19354
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/eb-update-sitespeed-10.yml

----
-title: Update CI templates to use sitespeed 11.2.0
-merge_request: 20561
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/ek-fix-analytics-icon-alignment.yml

----
-title: Fix analytics icon alignment
-merge_request: 21555
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/fix-design-discussion-comment-bug.yml

----
-title: Fix inability to add comments to a discussion in Design Management
-merge_request: 21229
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/gitlab-pagination-without-count-fix.yml

----
-title: Do not trigger count query for pagination without count
-merge_request: 21232
-author:
-type: performance

ee/changelogs/unreleased/growth-87-states-api.yml

----
-title: Add API for states by country
-merge_request: 21417
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/growth-92-clean-up-bad-data-from-role.yml

----
-title: Nullify user roles that have been accidentaly set to a value of 0
-merge_request: 19569
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/id-allow-empty-rule.yml

----
-title: Add new approval rule type which allows anyone to approve
-merge_request: 15378
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/issue_2030.yml

----
-title: Use issue templates on service desk(backend)
-merge_request: 19515
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/issue_33222.yml

----
-title: 'Show the proper message when adding a duplicate issue to an epic'
-merge_request:
-author: 20175
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/link-types.yml

----
-title: Added migration for issue link types.
-merge_request: 20617
-author:
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/marginalia-feature-check-on-app-start.yml

----
-title: Added Marginalia feature which can generate PostgreSQL query comments to Gitlab
-merge_request: 21364
-author: BalaKumar
-type: added

ee/changelogs/unreleased/rjain-epic-trees2.yml

----
-title: Turn auto_complete_issues on by default
-merge_request: 20525
-author:
-type: fixed

ee/changelogs/unreleased/winh-issues-api-epic_id-parameter.yml

----
-title: Expose epic_id parameter in issues API
-merge_request: 19953
-author:
-type: changed