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What does this MR do?

This MR adds support for markdown in the bio field on the user's profile.

The base of this MR is a community contribution which is inactive for quite some time: !20254 (closed)

Changes

In an earlier MR we've decided to move the bio attribute from the users table to user_details table. Now we're ready to ignore the users.bio column and use the user_details.bio. (Related MR: !27773 (merged))

Query to verify that the bios are identical in both tables:

select users.id, users.bio, user_details.bio from users inner join user_details on users.id=user_details.user_id where users.bio <> user_details.bio limit 1;

• Store the html representation of the bio.
• Render bio_html to the user popover.
• Expose bio_html in our API.
• Update the API docs.
• Remap the validation error key for bio in the API: user_detail.bio => bio
• Delegate bio and bio_html to user_detail

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

• Changelog entry
• [-] Documentation (if required)
• Code review guidelines
• Merge request performance guidelines
• Style guides
• [-] Database guides
• [-] Separation of EE specific content

Availability and Testing

• Review and add/update tests for this feature/bug. Consider all test levels. See the Test Planning Process.
• Tested in all supported browsers
• [-] Informed Infrastructure department of a default or new setting change, if applicable per definition of done

Security

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• [-] Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
• [-] The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
• [-] Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team