Flush out the update guide from 8.17 - 9.0

See merge request !9823

Fix reference to node_modules for emoji unicode versions

Closes #29192

See merge request !9810

Update GITLAB_SHELL_VERSION to 5.0.0

See merge request !9809

Fix "passed with warnings" stage status on MySQL

Closes #28603

See merge request !9802

Verbosify blocked pipeline status description

Closes #29134

See merge request !9800

Don't show double nav bar on project page when activity is the default project view

Closes #29096

See merge request !9798

Remove hidden text from subscribe button

Closes #29165

See merge request !9790

Remove extra space for settings dropdown

See merge request !9788

Removed the settings gear button inside the project view to a tab

Closes #26733

See merge request !9786

Update emojis to use harmony modules (import/export)

See merge request !9784

Show members of parent groups on project members page

Closes #28786 and #27962

See merge request !9764

Instructions for installing google-protobuf from source

See merge request !9665

Added discussion comments avatars to diff

Closes #17237

See merge request !7357

Filtered Search Visual Tokens code improvements

See merge request !9781

Add changelog for filtered-search-visual-tokens

See merge request !9799

Fix filtered search visual token editing dropdown

See merge request !9794

Fix edit last visual token

See merge request !9791

Move and update Crowd authentication documentation

See merge request !9775

Filtered search visual tokens

Closes #26652

See merge request !8969

Add configuration instructions for Container Registry Notifications.

See merge request !9500

Fix transient failure in TodoService spec

See merge request !9797

# Conflicts:
#	doc/api/v3_to_v4.md

For reasons unknown, the lack of `and_call_original` on this message
expectation was causing a transient failure depending on test order. We
narrowed it down using `rspec --bisect` to the following order:

    spec/requests/openid_connect_spec.rb:123 spec/services/todo_service_spec.rb:751

Fix go-get support for projects in nested groups

See merge request !9793

GET "projects/:id/repository/commits" endpoint improvements

Closes #1381 and #20207

See merge request !9679

Clear AR connections before starting Sidekiq

Closes gitlab-com/infrastructure#1139

See merge request !9773

API v4 doc changes

See merge request !9723

API: Get list of jobs for a pipeline

Closes #26843

See merge request !9727

`Kaminari.paginate_array` takes some options, most relevant of which is
a `total_count` parameter. Using the `commit_count` for `total_count`
lets us correctly treat the return of `Repository#commits` as a subset
of all the commits we may wish to list.

Addition of a new `Repository#commit_count_for_ref` method was
necessarry to allow the user to start from an arbitrary ref.

Ref #1381

Remove unecessary endpoint from repository, add compatibility endpoints for v3 and several improvements

Allow issues in boards to be ordered

Closes #21264

See merge request !8916