Bump kubectl in Auto DevOps to 1.11.7. Minor patch upgrade from 1.11.6.

Minor bugfix release:
https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v2.12.3

Retry failing tests

Closes gitlab-org/quality/team-tasks#92

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25391

Fix Auto DevOps check domain is blank

Closes #57798

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25308

Remove application `#ready?`

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25128

Upgrade gitlab-shell to 8.6.0

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25402

This brings in two improvements:

* Add support for using gl_project_path
* Provide expires_in for LFS if available

Fixes for Auto DevOps QA specs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25275

Empty state for Starred Projects

Closes #34555

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25138

In this MR, a view for the empty state of projects has been added.
In addition, an svg for this has also been added.

Fixes the top position of job log topbar

Closes #57583

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25394

Revert "Merge branch 'use_gitlab_current_settings' into 'master'"

Closes gitlab-ee#9833

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25393

Adds the commit sha to the pushed assets

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25353

* This will upload the sha of the docker image containing assets to
  assist with building specific sha builds in the future.
* Addresses: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release/framework/issues/51

The top bar of the job log was always expecting the
performance bar to be enabled. This commit adds CSS
to fix the top position for both scenarios.

Refactor spec/factories/users.rb to allow EE to extend it

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25258

This reverts merge request !25370

Fixes transient failure in create_issue_spec.rb

Closes gitlab-org/quality/nightly#79

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25383

Does not retry if tagged :quarantine. Also adds unit tests.

Merge branch '55376-related_merge_requests-api-call-returns-merge-requests-that-are-not-related-to-the-issue' into 'master'

Ensure that  related_merge_requests api call returns merge requests in the correct scope

Closes #55376

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25222

Add related merge request count to api response

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!24974

Fixes some requests not being tracked in performance bar

Closes #57886

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25384

Add first-day-of-week admin area config note

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25376

Added: Include order by ID desc as tie break in pagination

Closes #54796

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25311

Use Gitlab::CurrentSettings in UrlValidator

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25370

Ensure that references to private projects are not visible

API: Support Jira transition ID as string

Closes #55109

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!24400

Fix rollout status for statefulsets and daemonsets

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!24972

Remove two unused formats from Projects::TreeController#show

Closes #38261

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25249

Gitlab::CurrentSettings will create ApplicationSetting.current if not
present which means we don't have to use `&.`. We can also more easily
use stub_application_setting in specs

Closes https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57886

Allow setting feature flags per GitLab group

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25022

Building on support for setting feature flags by project, this adds
support for setting them by GitLab group path.

This is different from setting them by Flipper feature_groups, which
are for batch updating pre-registered collections.

Also use refactor retry_on_excpetion and use it in select_*_filter
methods

Update GitLab UI to latest version

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25127