Add latest changes from gitlab-org/gitlab@17-11-stable-ee

.gitlab/ci/rules.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -237,6 +237,10 @@
 .if-observability-skip-e2e-jobs: &if-observability-skip-e2e-jobs
   if: '$SKIP_GITLAB_OBSERVABILITY_BACKEND_TRIGGER || $GITLAB_OBSERVABILITY_BACKEND_PIPELINE_TRIGGER_TOKEN == null || $GITLAB_OBSERVABILITY_BACKEND_TOKEN_FOR_CI_SCRIPTS == null'
 
+.if-dev-internal-release: &if-dev-internal-release
+  if: '$CI_SERVER_HOST == "dev.gitlab.org" && $CI_PROJECT_PATH == "gitlab/gitlab-ee" && $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~
+  /^[\d-]+-stable-ee$/ && $CI_COMMIT_TITLE =~ /^Update VERSION file.*internal/'
+
 ####################
 # Changes patterns #
 ####################
@@ -1086,6 +1090,7 @@
     - <<: *if-dot-com-gitlab-org-schedule
       variables:
         ARCH: amd64,arm64
+    - <<: *if-dev-internal-release
     - !reference [".build-images:rules:build-qa-image-merge-requests", rules]
     - !reference [".releases:rules:canonical-dot-com-gitlab-stable-branch-only-setup-test-env", rules]
     # Always build on stable branches to serve release-environments pipeline

scripts/build_qa_image

@@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ fi
 # Then set DESTINATIONS to the content of VERSION file
 if [[ "${QA_IMAGE_NAME}" == "gitlab-ee-qa" ]] && \
    [[ "${CI_REGISTRY}" == "dev.gitlab.org:5005" ]] && \
-   [[ "$(version_file_content)" == *"internal"* ]] && \
-   [[ "${CI_COMMIT_TITLE}" == "Update VERSION files" ]]; then
+   [[ "$CI_COMMIT_TITLE" =~ ^Update\ VERSION\ file\ for.*internal ]]; then
    QA_IMAGE_FOR_INTERNAL_RELEASE="${BASE_IMAGE_PATH}:$(version_file_content)"
    DESTINATIONS="${DESTINATIONS} --tag ${QA_IMAGE_FOR_INTERNAL_RELEASE}"
 fi