Allow users to compare branches on a read-only instance

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25414

Add "How to seed a database with millions of rows" section

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25439

[ci skip]

Docs: Fix all anchors related to YAML

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25459

Remove padding for mr-widget-section

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25475

Remove runner tags that are no longer needed

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25443

Sort labels alphabetically on issues and merge requests list

Closes #57003

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25470

Sorts labels alphabetically on issues (and merge requests) list.
Before it was order id desc.
Now it will be consistent with sidebar and labels page.
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Zaporozhets <dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'ce-9858-follow-up-on-a-bug-that-happens-when-using-a-factory-built-object-in-the-where-block-of-rspec-parameterized-tablesyntax' into 'master'

Fix and document an RSpec::Parameterized::TableSyntax edge-case

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25438

Merge branch '56492-implement-new-arguments-state-closed_before-and-closed_after-for-issuesresolver-in-graphql' into 'master'

Implement new arguments `state`, `closed_before` and `closed_after` for `IssuesResolver` in GraphQL

Closes #56492

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!24910

This class is used in:

- `group_test_reports_app.vue` where the padding is overruled by
  `.mr-report`
- `mr_widget_options.vue` where the padding is overruled by `p-0`
- `ee/mr_widget_options.vue` where there is a bug because the padding
  is not overruled.

Resolve "Create smoke test for AutoDevOps"

Closes #57930

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25442

Make frontend fixtures deterministic

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23705

Add tag validation on pipeline page

Minor fixes to development/documentation docs, mostly aligning all link text to relevant page names

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25471

Add Link from Closed (moved) Issues to Moved Issue

Closes #57784

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25300

Add spec/frontend/ to frontend roulette

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25465

Style status box links using bootstrap and other utility classes instead
of styling all `a` tags in the status-box.

The text "moved" now links to the issue the closed issue was moved to.

Update dependency @gitlab/svgs to ^1.53.0

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25455

Merge branch '57867-accessing-issue-1-of-gitlab-ce-via-the-api-results-in-500-internal-server-error' into 'master'

Speed up find_by when used on finders

Closes #57867

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25421

Make Jest work with gitlab-ui

Closes #56689

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25440

Mind the oxford comma

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!25252

Catch exceptions in list_issues reactive cache calculation

Closes #56871

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!24936

Return the exception as an error.