Merge Requests integrated in this release

28 merge requests were integrated in this repo between 1.7.5 and 1.7.6.
These notes don't account for the MRs merged in secondary repos.

Sylva-units framework

Update sylva-units-operator to v1.3.7 !8990 ~"renovate"
[backport-1.7] introduce dummy-for-in-cluster-healthchecks unit template !9229 ~"backport" (issues: #4390)

Update Sylva Helm chart sylva-capi-cluster to v0.14.33 ~"renovate" !9265 !9312
[backport-release1.7]- Introduce kubelet_config_file_options and disable SerializeImagePull !9299 ~"backport"

[backport-1.7] allow backup encryption !9220 ~"area:security" ~"backport" (issues: #4507)
[backport-1.7] Enable Encryption for recurring rancher backups !9290 ~"backport" (issues: #4520)
[backport-1.7] add chainsaw tests for velero !9294 ~"backport" ~"velero"
[backport-1.7] Add healthcheck for backupStorageLocation in velero !9347 ~"backport" ~"velero"

[backport-1.7] Increase multus-rke2-whereabouts-reconciler memory resources !9297 ~"backport" (issues: #4697)

Bump Ci values tag !9270
[backport-1.7] allow backup encryption !9220 ~"area:backup-restore" ~"backport" (issues: #4507)
[backport-1.7] Increase memory limits and requests for Kyverno reportsController !9304 ~"backport"
[backport-1.7] add unit to build a configmap from existing keycloak ressources !9309 ~"backport"

[backport-1.7] Fix kube-ovn RAFT election mr 7970 !9231 ~"backport" (issues: #4324)
[backport-1.7] add rancher-roles-management-repo unit for gitops !9254 ~"backport"
[backport-1.7] kubeadm: increase Etcd election-timeout/heartbeat-interval (align with RKE2) !9104 ~"backport"
[backport-1.7] Pass vault_settings.oidc.allowedRedirectURIs to w-t-d only when internal OpenBao is configured for OIDC !9281 ~"backport"
[backport-1.7] add backup pipelines in scheduled nightly pipelines !9307 ~"CI::configuration" ~"backport"
[backport-1.7] Have workload-team-defs (its JWTOIDCAuthEngineRole CRs) depend on vault-oidc !9308 ~"backport"
[backport-1.7] Use relocated images of minio !9335 ~"backport" (issues: #4723)

Update pre-commit hook sylva-projects/sylva-elements/ci-tooling/sylva-test-framework to v1.1.13 !9259 !9301
Update sylva-elements/ci-tooling/ci-deployment-values to v0.6.34 !9280 !9319 !9326

[backport-1.7] Disable cache for deployment jobs !9227 ~"backport" (issues: #4661)
[backport-1.7] Cleanup nmstate option !9257 ~"backport" ~"type::cleanup"
[backport-1.7] CI: let get_folder_from_ref support dev 0.0.0- tags on release branches !9228 ~"backport" (issues: #4615)

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