Release notes: Massage !123 markdown-links for GitLab platform - like Github

[rarkins]

Discussed in #29894

^{Originally posted by MaxWinterstein June 27, 2024}
Currently there is a lot of massaging in the PR Description going on, like rewriting github.com references to github.com for backlink prevention and more.

The GitLab platform is missing this functionality which leads to e.g. wrong backlinks within the same repo:
When the changelog contains simple relative reference like !123 the Merge Request will ping his neighbour Merge Request with id 123, even it is years old.

(Originally posted as discussion #29892)

[rarkins]

Renovate currently looks for #123 and not !123. The best thing we can do is wrap such patterns in backticks to prevent the linking.