A lot of users get authentication errors after this upgrade. Reason being the change in 6.5 that secure cookies when using https. A link to this would be very handy for other upgraders!

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-public-wiki/wiki/Trouble-Shooting-Guide#cant-verify-csrf-token-authenticitycant-get-past-login-pageredirected-to-login-page