What's Changed

• Revert "revert all package updates since 1.5.3" by @akatsoulas in #6981
• Exclude articles of certain categories from featured by @escattone in #6982
• upgrade packages (take 2) by @escattone in #6984
• Escape XML chars by @akatsoulas in #6980
• Update readonly announcement to remove Twitter link by @denyshon in #6978
• Bump whitenoise from 6.9.0 to 6.11.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #6966
• Playwright: Expand test coverage to community forums by @emilghittasv in #6962
• better featured articles but with the same performance by @escattone in #6983
• exclude pinned from featured articles by @escattone in #6985
• Bump psycopg2 from 2.9.10 to 2.9.11 by @dependabot[bot] in #6987
• switch to workload identity for the GA client by @escattone in #6988

Full Changelog: 1.5.7...1.5.8