Prepare Release v1.72.0 / v2.9.0 (#7421)

Prepare Release v1.72.0 / v2.9.0

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Signed-off-by: Jonah Kowall <[email protected]>

Prepare release 1.69.0 (#7107)

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Depends on jaegertracing/jaeger-ui#2762 

Updates: #7106

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Signed-off-by: Pavol Loffay <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Yuri Shkuro <[email protected]>

Prepare release 1.69.0 (#7107)

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Depends on jaegertracing/jaeger-ui#2762 

Updates: #7106

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## Checklist
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- [ ] I have added unit tests for the new functionality
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  - for `jaeger`: `make lint test`
  - for `jaeger-ui`: `npm run lint` and `npm run test`

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Signed-off-by: Pavol Loffay <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Yuri Shkuro <[email protected]>

Prepare release v1.68.0/v2.5.0 (#6978)

Part of #6975

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Signed-off-by: albertteoh <[email protected]>

Prepare release v1.68.0/v2.5.0 (#6978)

Part of #6975

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Signed-off-by: albertteoh <[email protected]>

Prepare release v1.67.0/v2.4.0 (#6826)

Part of #6825

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Signed-off-by: Yuri Shkuro <[email protected]>