* master:
  software/end-to-end-testing: add test_ors.py
  software/end-to-end-testing: add test_lopcomm.py
  component/python3: version up python3.11.8
  stack/slapos: version up pyparsing (3.1.1 on py3, 2.4.7 on py2)
  stack/slapos: version up defusedxml 0.7.1
  component/pygolang: remove some duplicate versions
  *: normalize versions of pexpect
  stack/slapos: move httplib2 version pin in slapos.cfg and update to 0.22.0
  component/ZODB: update ZODB5 5.8.1
  software/gitlab: run git-backup test during software step
  software/gitlab: version up gilab-ce
  software/gitlab: remove outdated comment