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Docs - upgrade recommendation for runners to match version

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As per #220057 (closed), this little piece of knowledge is locked away in the Runner docs and should be linked to from the GitLab upgrade recommendations doc as it comes up every now in Support.

Over the weekend, we had a customer that upgraded from GitLab 11.11.8 to 12.9.2 but they left their Runners on 11.11. They had a strange issue that was resolved after they upgraded their Runners to match their GitLab version.

All the more reason to have this documented somewhere in our upgrade recommendations.

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