chore: Accumulated backports to v2 (#18068)

This PR accumulates backport commits throughout the day and will be
auto-merged overnight.

Latest backport: #18048 - fix: Enforce max uncompressed size for p2p
messages

🤖 This PR is managed automatically by the backport workflow.

Author: spalladino

.github/workflows/ci3.yml

@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ jobs:
           mkdir -p ~/.ssh
           echo ${{ secrets.BUILD_INSTANCE_SSH_KEY }} | base64 --decode > ~/.ssh/build_instance_key
           chmod 600 ~/.ssh/build_instance_key
-          sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends redis-tools parallel
 
       - name: Store the GCP key in a file
         env: