Reduce _validate complexity (#20274)

Remove use of keymap.h (#20004)

Custom keycodes in JSON (#19925)

Add force support to 'qmk git-submodule' (#19705)

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into develop

[chore] keyboards/tzarc: Alignment with clang-format. (#20265)

Move `WS2812_DRIVER` to data driven (#20248)

Fix rgblight layers when animations aren't enabled (#20097)

[Cleanup] Quantum Painter (#19825)

Co-authored-by: Nick Brassel <nick@tzarc.org>

[Core] PS/2 PIO Driver for RP2040 (#17893)

Co-authored-by: Johannes H. Jensen <joh@pseudoberries.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into develop

Check for multiple matrix positions assigned to same key (#20039)

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into develop

[Documentation] Pointing device minor rewrite (#19641)

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into develop

Bump actions/stale from 7 to 8 (#20246)

Bumps [actions/stale](https://github.com/actions/stale) from 7 to 8.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/stale/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/actions/stale/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/actions/stale/compare/v7...v8)

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into develop

Add CannonKeys Bakeneko65 Hotswap ISO PCB to QMK (#20131)

* Add CannonKeys Bakeneko65 Hotswap ISO PCB to QMK

* Add 65_iso_blocker community layout support

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into develop

[Keyboard]Viktus Minne - Topre variant (#20044)

* Adding the Viktus Minne topre pcb variant

* Update keyboards/viktus/minne_topre/readme.md

Co-authored-by: Drashna Jaelre <drashna@live.com>

* Update rules.mk

* Moving layouts from *.h to info.json

* Removing minne_topre.h and updating others

* fixing *.c's

* Switch from int to void for ec_init

* Update info.json

* Update info.json

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