ci(v8): Bump to ubuntu-24.04 (#17507)

This PR unblocks backports to `v8` branch, similarly to what's done for
v7 (#17083)

Summary:

- Skip `size-check`
- Skip webkit / firefox playwright tests (so also flaky test detection)
- Upgrade playwright versions to `1.52.0`
- Skip a few browser tests that are flaky or failing on ubuntu-24.04
- Update nuxt e2e test configurations
- Use node-profiler binding binaries
- Skip nextjs canary tests
- Skip mongodb, mongoose and amqplib tests

Author: onurtemizkan

.github/actions/install-playwright/action.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ description: "Installs Playwright dependencies and caches them."
 inputs:
   browsers:
     description: 'What browsers to install.'
-    default: 'chromium webkit firefox'
+    default: 'chromium'
   cwd:
     description: 'The working directory to run Playwright in.'
     default: '.'
@@ -17,33 +17,7 @@ runs:
         shell: bash
         working-directory: ${{ inputs.cwd }}
 
-
-      - name: Restore cached playwright binaries
-        uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
-        id: playwright-cache
-        with:
-          path: |
-            ~/.cache/ms-playwright
-          key: playwright-${{ runner.os }}-${{ steps.playwright-version.outputs.version }}
-
-      # We always install all browsers, if uncached
-      - name: Install Playwright dependencies (uncached)
-        run: npx playwright install chromium webkit firefox --with-deps
-        if: steps.playwright-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+      - name: Install Playwright dependencies
+        run: npx playwright install chromium
         shell: bash
-        working-directory: ${{ inputs.cwd }}
-
-      - name: Install Playwright system dependencies only (cached)
-        run: npx playwright install-deps ${{ inputs.browsers || 'chromium webkit firefox' }}
-        if: steps.playwright-cache.outputs.cache-hit == 'true'
-        shell: bash
-        working-directory: ${{ inputs.cwd }}
-
-      # Only store cache on develop branch
-      - name: Store cached playwright binaries
-        uses: actions/cache/save@v4
-        if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/develop'
-        with:
-          path: |
-            ~/.cache/ms-playwright
-          key: playwright-${{ runner.os }}-${{ steps.playwright-version.outputs.version }}
+        working-directory: ${{ inputs.cwd }}

.github/workflows/auto-release.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
 # This workflow tirggers a release when merging a branch with the pattern `prepare-release/VERSION` into master.
 jobs:
   release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     name: 'Prepare a new version'
 
     steps: