7.9.0 Security Updates

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7.9.0 (2023-11-29)

Added

• Add Microsoft login (#8984) (c719112)
• Free trial mutations (#9132) (7367b94)
• kudos: display notification when kudos received (#9199) (8f0e72f)
• node update v20.9.0 LTS, req rethinkdb-ts and uWS version bump (#9232) (5cc7423)

Fixed

• author should be nullable when comment was anonymous (#9233) (d67aca2)
• release please build add systemtap (#9241) (3e0aef3)
• systemtap path (#9242) (1d6cca2)

Changed

• Fix formatting (#9244) (275c404)
• kudos: add kudos record when adding emoji reaction (#9169) (cecdbe4)
• kudos: add kudos team settings (#9163) (97fba6c)
• Sorted .env.example and added more documentation (#9104) (a26050e)

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