Merge upstream/release/2.6 into upstream/google/2.6 #7084

Job	Run time
Build DAOS (alma.8)	37m 40s
Build DAOS (ARM64) (ubuntu, clang)	12m 7s
Build DAOS (alma.9)	37m 30s
Build DAOS (ARM64) (alma.8, clang)	46m 53s
Build DAOS (ARM64) (leap.15, clang)	43m 51s
Build DAOS (rocky.8)	37m 38s
Build DAOS (ubuntu)	33m 37s
Create Docker images (ubuntu)	7m 45s
Create Docker images (rocky)	7m 32s
Create Docker images (fedora)	7m 49s
Create Docker images (leap.15)	9m 44s
Run DAOS/NLT tests (ubuntu)	22m 52s
Build DAOS in image (ubuntu, clang)	19m 47s
Build DAOS in image (ubuntu, gcc)	22m 32s
Build DAOS in image (rocky, clang)	21m 58s
Build DAOS in image (rocky, gcc)	22m 46s
Build DAOS in image (fedora, clang)	21m 3s
Build DAOS in image (fedora, gcc)	22m 58s
Build DAOS in image (leap.15, clang)	22m 7s
Build DAOS in image (leap.15, gcc)	22m 24s
	8h 0m 33s

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