[27.x] Further Backports #29693

1. 
   fanquake commented at 5:07 pm on March 21, 2024: member

   Currently:

   • #29192
   • #29610
   • https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29676
2. serfloat: do not test encode(bits)=bits anymore

   Github-Pull: #29192
   Rebased-From: b45f1f56582fb3a0d17db5014ac57f1fb40a3611

   f4be4d7447
3. serfloat: improve/simplify tests

   Github-Pull: #29192
   Rebased-From: 6e873df3478f3ab8f67d1b9339c7e990ae90e95b

   5d381cfb6f
4. fanquake added this to the milestone 27.0 on Mar 21, 2024
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6. DrahtBot added the label Backport on Mar 21, 2024
7. ci: Add workaround for Homebrew's python link error

   Promoting Homebrew's python@3.12 to the default python3 breaks symbolic
   links on macOS x86_64.
   
   This change adds a workaround for that issue.
   
   Also see: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/9471 etc.
   
   Github-Pull: #29610
   Rebased-From: acc06bc91f80ddf4e015dcdf0b984bbdbfcb5ca3

   603f0368a5
8. ci, macos: Use `--break-system-packages` with Homebrew's python

   Homebrew's python@3.12 is marked as externally managed (PEP 668),
   necessitating different approaches for installing Python packages.
   
   For more details, please refer to https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/3404.
   
   Github-Pull: #29610
   Rebased-From: acc06bc91f80ddf4e015dcdf0b984bbdbfcb5ca3

   05f69b36d1
9. ci: Bump msan to llvm-18

   Github-Pull: #29676
   Rebased-From: faecf3a7e6779c2cacadd91a6eba446431778849

   a7116c8feb
10. fanquake force-pushed on Mar 21, 2024
11. fanquake requested review from stickies-v on Mar 23, 2024
12. stickies-v approved
13. 
    stickies-v commented at 11:52 am on March 25, 2024: contributor

    ACK a7116c8febb0747591b19a2f428d999984990873 - all clean test backports
14. fanquake merged this on Mar 26, 2024
15. fanquake closed this on Mar 26, 2024

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16. fanquake deleted the branch on Mar 26, 2024

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