Implement Migration.run_before

This attribute (used for reverse dependencies) was previously declared
and mentioned in the code, but never actually used.
Updated current state of MySQL Connector/Python.
Added a patch review checklist.
Fixed #22681 -- Made TarArchive recognize leading directories properly.
Fixed #22717 -- Auto-corrected missing ending slash in FileSystemStorage

Thanks David Fischer for the report and Moayad Mardini for the
review.
Fixed #22684 -- Amended SelectDateWidget.empty_label to accept a tuple of values.

Thanks danielsamuels for the report
Fixed #13776 -- Fixed ModelForm.is_valid() exception with non-nullable FK and blank=True.

Thanks peterbe for the report.
Fixed #22747 -- Add backwards compatibility tip for new behavior of formset.save(commit=False).

Thanks django at patjack.co.uk.
Fixed #22710 -- Amended aggregation note for empty QuerySets

Thanks smeaton for report and Joël Rochat for spell check
Fixed RST syntax in 1.8 release docs.
Reordered setUp code in prefetch_related tests.

This allows these tests to run on databases that reject duplicate NULL
values in unique fields e.g. SQL Server.

Forward port of 4fb50a9a from stable/1.7.x.
Avoided using BinaryField unecessarily in tests.

Several database backends struggle with binary data. This change
minimizes the risk of unrelated tests failures when binary fields
trigger errors.

Forward-port of 2e4bcb9b from stable/1.7.x.
Added a flag for the ability to introspect nullable fields.

Previously this was conflated with another Oracle-specific behavior.
Fixed #22746 -- Removed background property from pre/code in admin CSS.
Fixed #21773 -- made daemon threads default in the development server.

Thanks clime for the report.
Fixed #10811 -- Made assigning unsaved objects to FK, O2O, and GFK raise ValueError.

This prevents silent data loss.

Thanks Aymeric Augustin for the initial patch and Loic Bistuer for the review.
Fix missing highlighting in some code examples
Fixed #18400 -- Modified length template filter to return 0 for unknown variables.

Thanks Florian for the bug report, luyikei for the initial code patch, and
Bouke for the code review feedback.
Fixed #20550 -- Added keepdb argument to destroy_test_db
Checked can_introspect_null feature in a test.

Forward-port of 1238f92c from stable/1.7.x.