Closes gh-26112

Closes gh-26110

Closes gh-24027

Closes gh-26108

Closes gh-26084

Closes gh-25910

Closes gh-25905

Closes gh-26107

* pr/26085:
  Polish "Document spring.config.additional-location should be used early"
  Document spring.config.additional-location should be used early

Closes gh-26085

See gh-26085

See gh-26085

Closes gh-26104

Closes gh-26103

Closes gh-26102

Closes gh-26101

Closes gh-26100

Closes gh-26099

Closes gh-26098

Closes gh-26097

Closes gh-26096

Closes gh-26095

Closes gh-26094

Closes gh-26091

* pr/26086:
  Fix Docker update detection on CI

Closes gh-26086

See gh-26086

Increase timeout in `SampleSessionApplicationTests` to fix flaky local
builds.

Closes gh-26081

Closes gh-25909

Closes gh-25903

Closes gh-25911

Closes gh-25908

Closes gh-25906

Closes gh-25902

This commit removes `org.springframework.data.annotation.Persistent`
from the annotation types used for MongoDB entity scanning to align
with Spring Data MongoDB.

Fixes gh-25797