Release/2.6.1 mercury 20231115 with cherry-pick changes #38169

Job	Run time
Check Paths That Require Tests To Run	10s
Get Solana Sha From Go Mod	8s
Compare/Build Automation Test List	6s
Build Chainlink Image	2m 20s
Build Chainlink Image (plugins)	2m 13s
Build Test Image	0s
Get ProjectSerum Version	3s
Check If Solana Test Image Exists	10s
Solana Build Artifacts	1m 1s
Live Testnet Smoke Tests ${{ matrix.testnet }}	0s
Version Migration Tests	0s
ETH Smoke Tests ${{ matrix.product.name }}	0s
ETH Smoke Tests ${{ matrix.product.name }}	0s
Live Testnet Start Slack Thread	0s
ETH Smoke Tests	7s
Post Live Testnet Smoke Test Results	0s
Clean up integration environment deployments	34s
ETH Smoke Tests Go Mod Cache	0s
Solana Build Test Image	2s
Solana Smoke Tests ${{ matrix.image.name }}	0s
Solana Smoke Tests	6s
	7m 0s

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