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Update Changelog to use urls instead of references

Niklas van Schrick requested to merge gitlab-community/gitlab:changelog-urls into master
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What does this MR do and why?

Tools like Renovate include changelogs in the MRs to update dependencies. While the reference in the changelog works for projects that are hosted on the same instance, it does not work, if you have dependencies from other instances (like the GitLab chart on a self-hosted instance).

There is no way to click the link to the MR or commit and you have to build the URL yourself if you want to look at the MR or commit.

Lets improve that by changing the reference to urls. (Example screenshot below is from the chart, but the same problem applies to the main project)

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