diff --git a/docs/release-notes/breaking-changes.md b/docs/release-notes/breaking-changes.md
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+++ b/docs/release-notes/breaking-changes.md
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ Aggregations:
 Allocation:
 * Increase minimum threshold in shard balancer [#115831](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/115831)
 * Remove `cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.enable_for_single_data_node` setting [#114207](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/114207)
-* Remove cluster state from `/_cluster/reroute` response [#114231](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/114231) (issue: {es-issue}88978[#88978])
+* Remove cluster state from `/_cluster/reroute` response [#114231](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/114231) (issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/88978[#88978])
 
 Analysis:
 * Snowball stemmers have been upgraded [#114146](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/114146)
 * The 'german2' stemmer is now an alias for the 'german' snowball stemmer [#113614](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/113614)
-* The 'persian' analyzer has stemmer by default [#113482](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/113482) (issue: {es-issue}113050[#113050])
+* The 'persian' analyzer has stemmer by default [#113482](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/113482) (issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/113050[#113050])
 * The Korean dictionary for Nori has been updated [#114124](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/114124)
 
 Authentication:
@@ -56,32 +56,32 @@ Indices APIs:
 Infra/Core:
 * Change Elasticsearch timeouts to 429 response instead of 5xx [#116026](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/116026)
 * Limit `ByteSizeUnit` to 2 decimals [#120142](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/120142)
-* Remove `client.type` setting [#118192](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/118192) (issue: {es-issue}104574[#104574])
+* Remove `client.type` setting [#118192](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/118192) (issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/104574[#104574])
 * Remove any references to org.elasticsearch.core.RestApiVersion#V_7 [#118103](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/118103)
 
 Infra/Logging:
-* Change `deprecation.elasticsearch` keyword to `elasticsearch.deprecation` [#117933](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/117933) (issue: {es-issue}83251[#83251])
-* Rename deprecation index template [#125606](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/125606) (issue: {es-issue}125445[#125445])
+* Change `deprecation.elasticsearch` keyword to `elasticsearch.deprecation` [#117933](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/117933) (issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/83251[#83251])
+* Rename deprecation index template [#125606](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/125606) (issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/125445[#125445])
 
 Infra/Metrics:
 * Deprecated tracing.apm.* settings got removed. [#119926](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/119926)
 
 Infra/REST API:
-* Output a consistent format when generating error json [#90529](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/90529) (issue: {es-issue}89387[#89387])
+* Output a consistent format when generating error json [#90529](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/90529) (issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/89387[#89387])
 
 Ingest Node:
 * Remove `ecs` option on `user_agent` processor [#116077](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/116077)
 * Remove ignored fallback option on GeoIP processor [#116112](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/116112)
 
 Logs:
-* Conditionally enable logsdb by default for data streams matching with logs-*-* pattern. [#121049](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/121049) (issue: {es-issue}106489[#106489])
+* Conditionally enable logsdb by default for data streams matching with logs-*-* pattern. [#121049](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/121049) (issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/106489[#106489])
 
 Machine Learning:
 * Disable machine learning on macOS x86_64 [#104125](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/104125)
 
 Mapping:
 * Remove support for type, fields, `copy_to` and boost in metadata field definition [#118825](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/118825)
-* Turn `_source` meta fieldmapper's mode attribute into a no-op [#119072](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/119072) (issue: {es-issue}118596[#118596])
+* Turn `_source` meta fieldmapper's mode attribute into a no-op [#119072](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/119072) (issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/118596[#118596])
 
 Search:
 * Adjust `random_score` default field to `_seq_no` field [#118671](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/118671)