diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/database.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab/ci/database.gitlab-ci.yml
index 37befd78bb5..082d44633f8 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/database.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/database.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ db:check-schema-single-db:
 db:check-migrations:
   extends:
     - .db-job-base
-    - .use-pg13 # Should match the db same version used by GDK
+    - .use-pg14 # Should match the db same version used by GDK
     - .rails:rules:ee-and-foss-mr-with-migration
   script:
     - git fetch origin $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME:$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME --depth 20
diff --git a/.rubocop_todo/style/percent_literal_delimiters.yml b/.rubocop_todo/style/percent_literal_delimiters.yml
index 172e42de70f..ab096ed9a5a 100644
--- a/.rubocop_todo/style/percent_literal_delimiters.yml
+++ b/.rubocop_todo/style/percent_literal_delimiters.yml
@@ -2,99 +2,7 @@
 # Cop supports --autocorrect.
 Style/PercentLiteralDelimiters:
   Exclude:
-    - 'ee/spec/mailers/ci_minutes_usage_mailer_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/mailers/credentials_inventory_mailer_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/mailers/ee/emails/profile_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/mailers/emails/namespace_storage_usage_mailer_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/mailers/license_mailer_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/mailers/notify_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/approval_project_rule_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/ci/build_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/ci/pipeline_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/concerns/ee/issuable_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/concerns/ee/project_security_scanners_information_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/ee/ci/job_artifact_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/ee/ci/runner_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/ee/groups/feature_setting_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/ee/integrations/jira_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/ee/personal_access_token_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/instance_security_dashboard_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/issue_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/project_feature_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/protected_environment_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/push_rule_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/repository_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/saml_provider_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/security/scan_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/vulnerabilities/historical_statistic_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/vulnerabilities/stat_diff_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/models/vulnerabilities/statistic_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/policies/group_policy_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/policies/project_policy_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/presenters/merge_request_approver_presenter_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/admin/user_permission_exports_controller_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/api/dependencies_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/api/epics_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/api/geo_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/api/graphql/mutations/alert_management/http_integration/update_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/api/graphql/project/alert_management/http_integrations_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/api/internal/base_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/api/issues_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/api/merge_requests_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/api/wikis_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/requests/lfs_locks_api_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/serializers/merge_request_widget_entity_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/admin/email_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/base_count_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/ci/compare_security_reports_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/ci/sync_reports_to_approval_rules_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/ee/auth/container_registry_authentication_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/ee/groups/autocomplete_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/ee/members/create_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/ee/protected_branches/create_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/ee/users/update_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/elastic/data_migration_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/geo/cache_invalidation_event_store_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/jira/jql_builder_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/personal_access_tokens/rotation_verifier_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/protected_environments/search_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/security/dependency_list_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/security/token_revocation_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/services/system_notes/vulnerabilities_service_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/support/helpers/ee/login_helpers.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/support/license_scanning_reports/license_scanning_report_helper.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/support/prometheus/additional_metrics_shared_examples.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/support/protected_tags/access_control_shared_examples.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/support/shared_examples/finders/geo/file_registry_finder_shared_examples.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/support/shared_examples/finders/geo/registry_finder_shared_examples.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/support/shared_examples/lib/gitlab/git_access_shared_examples.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/support/shared_examples/requests/api/graphql/incident_management/escalation_policies_shared_examples.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/validators/json_schema_validator_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/views/operations/index.html.haml_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/views/shared/credentials_inventory/personal_access_tokens/_personal_access_token.html.haml_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/workers/ee/issuable_export_csv_worker_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/workers/project_cache_worker_spec.rb'
-    - 'ee/spec/workers/repository_import_worker_spec.rb'
     - 'metrics_server/metrics_server.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/ee/page/dashboard/projects.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/ee/page/group/settings/general.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/ee/page/project/issue/show.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/ee/page/project/job/show.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/ee/page/project/packages/index.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/ee/page/project/show.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/ee/page/project/snippet/index.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/ee/page/project/wiki/show.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/resource/events/project.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/resource/personal_access_token_cache.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/resource/visibility.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/service/cluster_provider/gcloud.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/service/praefect_manager.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/specs/features/api/3_create/repository/project_archive_compare_spec.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/2_plan/email/trigger_email_notification_spec.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/4_verify/pipeline/pipeline_with_image_pull_policy_spec.rb'
-    - 'qa/qa/specs/features/ee/browser_ui/3_create/repository/push_rules_spec.rb'
-    - 'qa/spec/git/repository_spec.rb'
-    - 'qa/spec/page/view_spec.rb'
     - 'spec/benchmarks/banzai_benchmark.rb'
     - 'spec/commands/sidekiq_cluster/cli_spec.rb'
     - 'spec/components/pajamas/component_spec.rb'
diff --git a/qa/qa/resource/events/project.rb b/qa/qa/resource/events/project.rb
index 693fdd6168f..4b265bab558 100644
--- a/qa/qa/resource/events/project.rb
+++ b/qa/qa/resource/events/project.rb
@@ -7,21 +7,21 @@ module QA
         include Events::Base
 
         def push_events(commit_message)
-          QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%[#{self.class.name} - wait for and fetch push events"])
+          QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%(#{self.class.name} - wait for and fetch push events"))
           fetch_events do
             events(action: 'pushed').select { |event| event.dig(:push_data, :commit_title) == commit_message }
           end
         end
 
         def wait_for_merge(title)
-          QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%[#{self.class.name} - wait_for_merge with title "#{title}"])
+          QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%(#{self.class.name} - wait_for_merge with title "#{title}"))
           wait_for_event do
             events(action: 'accepted', target_type: 'merge_request').any? { |event| event[:target_title] == title }
           end
         end
 
         def wait_for_push(commit_message)
-          QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%[#{self.class.name} - wait_for_push with commit message "#{commit_message}"])
+          QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%(#{self.class.name} - wait_for_push with commit message "#{commit_message}"))
           wait_for_event do
             events(action: 'pushed').any? { |event| event.dig(:push_data, :commit_title) == commit_message }
           end
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ module QA
         end
 
         def wait_for_push_new_branch(branch_name = self.default_branch)
-          QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%[#{self.class.name} - wait_for_push_new_branch with branch_name "#{branch_name}"])
+          QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%(#{self.class.name} - wait_for_push_new_branch with branch_name "#{branch_name}"))
           wait_for_event do
             events(action: 'pushed').any? { |event| event.dig(:push_data, :ref) == branch_name }
           end
diff --git a/qa/qa/resource/personal_access_token_cache.rb b/qa/qa/resource/personal_access_token_cache.rb
index 078df8e6779..08f2443eff6 100644
--- a/qa/qa/resource/personal_access_token_cache.rb
+++ b/qa/qa/resource/personal_access_token_cache.rb
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ module QA
         token = @personal_access_tokens[username]
 
         log_message = if token
-                        %[Retrieved cached token for username: #{username}, last six chars of token:#{token[-6..]}]
+                        %(Retrieved cached token for username: #{username}, last six chars of token:#{token[-6..]})
                       else
-                        %[No cached token found for username: #{username}]
+                        %(No cached token found for username: #{username})
                       end
 
         QA::Runtime::Logger.info(log_message)
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ module QA
       end
 
       def self.set_token_for_username(username, token)
-        QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%[Caching token for username: #{username}, last six chars of token:#{token[-6..]}])
+        QA::Runtime::Logger.info(%(Caching token for username: #{username}, last six chars of token:#{token[-6..]}))
         @personal_access_tokens[username] = token
       end
     end
diff --git a/qa/qa/resource/visibility.rb b/qa/qa/resource/visibility.rb
index b31bd3fca49..f75fcac2975 100644
--- a/qa/qa/resource/visibility.rb
+++ b/qa/qa/resource/visibility.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ module QA
       end
 
       class VisibilityLevel
-        %i(public internal private).each do |level|
+        %i[public internal private].each do |level|
           const_set(level.upcase, level)
         end
       end
diff --git a/qa/qa/service/cluster_provider/gcloud.rb b/qa/qa/service/cluster_provider/gcloud.rb
index 7993cf4ab4d..3ee851753f9 100644
--- a/qa/qa/service/cluster_provider/gcloud.rb
+++ b/qa/qa/service/cluster_provider/gcloud.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ module QA
         def initialize(rbac:)
           super(rbac: rbac)
           @attempts = 0
-          @available_regions = %w(
+          @available_regions = %w[
             asia-east1 asia-east2
             asia-northeast1 asia-south1
             asia-southeast1 australia-southeast1
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ module QA
             northamerica-northeast1 southamerica-east1
             us-central1 us-east1 us-east4
             us-west1 us-west2
-          )
+          ]
         end
 
         def setup
diff --git a/qa/qa/service/praefect_manager.rb b/qa/qa/service/praefect_manager.rb
index 56627e51b76..6188760d019 100644
--- a/qa/qa/service/praefect_manager.rb
+++ b/qa/qa/service/praefect_manager.rb
@@ -288,9 +288,9 @@ module QA
 
       def modify_repo_access_time(node, repo_path, update_time)
         repo = "/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/#{repo_path}"
-        shell(%{
+        shell(%(
           docker exec --user git #{node} bash -c 'find #{repo} -exec touch -d "#{update_time}" {} \\;'
-        })
+        ))
       end
 
       private
diff --git a/qa/qa/specs/features/api/3_create/repository/project_archive_compare_spec.rb b/qa/qa/specs/features/api/3_create/repository/project_archive_compare_spec.rb
index 87faec86947..614e2c4d306 100644
--- a/qa/qa/specs/features/api/3_create/repository/project_archive_compare_spec.rb
+++ b/qa/qa/specs/features/api/3_create/repository/project_archive_compare_spec.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ module QA
       include Support::API
       let(:project_name) { "project-archive-download-#{SecureRandom.hex(8)}" }
 
-      let(:archive_types) { %w(tar.gz tar.bz2 tar zip) }
+      let(:archive_types) { %w[tar.gz tar.bz2 tar zip] }
 
       let(:users) do
         {
diff --git a/qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/2_plan/email/trigger_email_notification_spec.rb b/qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/2_plan/email/trigger_email_notification_spec.rb
index 8b6c35ea63d..43f35f5dee5 100644
--- a/qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/2_plan/email/trigger_email_notification_spec.rb
+++ b/qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/2_plan/email/trigger_email_notification_spec.rb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ module QA
 
       def mailhog_json
         Support::Retrier.retry_until(sleep_interval: 1) do
-          Runtime::Logger.debug(%[retrieving "#{QA::Runtime::MailHog.api_messages_url}"])
+          Runtime::Logger.debug(%(retrieving "#{QA::Runtime::MailHog.api_messages_url}"))
 
           mailhog_response = get QA::Runtime::MailHog.api_messages_url
 
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ module QA
           subjects = mailhog_data.dig('items')
             .map { |item| mailhog_item_subject(item) }
 
-          Runtime::Logger.debug(%[Total number of emails: #{total}])
-          Runtime::Logger.debug(%[Subjects:\n#{subjects.join("\n")}])
+          Runtime::Logger.debug(%(Total number of emails: #{total}))
+          Runtime::Logger.debug(%(Subjects:\n#{subjects.join("\n")}))
 
           # Expect at least two invitation messages: group and project
           mailhog_data if mailhog_project_message_count(subjects) >= 1
diff --git a/qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/4_verify/pipeline/pipeline_with_image_pull_policy_spec.rb b/qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/4_verify/pipeline/pipeline_with_image_pull_policy_spec.rb
index 69d8467e6ea..3e21332c6ec 100644
--- a/qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/4_verify/pipeline/pipeline_with_image_pull_policy_spec.rb
+++ b/qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/4_verify/pipeline/pipeline_with_image_pull_policy_spec.rb
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ module QA
         QA::Service::Shellout.shell("docker cp #{runner_name}:/etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml #{tempdir.path}")
 
         File.open(tempdir.path, 'a') do |f|
-          f << %[    allowed_pull_policies = #{allowed_policies}\n]
+          f << %(    allowed_pull_policies = #{allowed_policies}\n)
         end
 
         QA::Service::Shellout.shell("docker cp #{tempdir.path} #{runner_name}:/etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml")
diff --git a/qa/spec/git/repository_spec.rb b/qa/spec/git/repository_spec.rb
index 1b88cba2ba5..513e807dd99 100644
--- a/qa/spec/git/repository_spec.rb
+++ b/qa/spec/git/repository_spec.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ RSpec.describe QA::Git::Repository do
     let(:logger) { instance_double(Logger, info: nil, debug: nil) }
     let(:repo_uri) { 'http://foo/bar.git' }
     let(:repo_uri_with_credentials) { 'http://root@foo/bar.git' }
-    let(:env_vars) { [%q{HOME="temp"}] }
+    let(:env_vars) { [%q(HOME="temp")] }
     let(:extra_env_vars) { [] }
     let(:run_params) { { env: env_vars + extra_env_vars, log_prefix: "Git: " } }
     let(:repository) do
diff --git a/qa/spec/page/view_spec.rb b/qa/spec/page/view_spec.rb
index 3342b387ed1..1f89e8829b4 100644
--- a/qa/spec/page/view_spec.rb
+++ b/qa/spec/page/view_spec.rb
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ RSpec.describe QA::Page::View do
         it 'returns an array of errors related to missing elements' do
           expect(subject.errors).not_to be_empty
           expect(subject.errors.first)
-            .to match %r(Missing element `.*` in `.*/some/file.html` view)
+            .to match %r{Missing element `.*` in `.*/some/file.html` view}
         end
       end
     end
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ RSpec.describe QA::Page::View do
       it 'returns an error when it is not able to find the partial' do
         expect(subject.errors).to be_one
         expect(subject.errors.first)
-          .to match %r(Missing view partial `.*/some/file.html`!)
+          .to match %r{Missing view partial `.*/some/file.html`!}
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/spec/features/profiles/user_visits_profile_preferences_page_spec.rb b/spec/features/profiles/user_visits_profile_preferences_page_spec.rb
index 033711f699e..4da1a7ba81a 100644
--- a/spec/features/profiles/user_visits_profile_preferences_page_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/profiles/user_visits_profile_preferences_page_spec.rb
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ RSpec.describe 'User visits the profile preferences page', :js, feature_category
   end
 
   describe 'User changes their language', :js do
-    it 'creates a flash message', quarantine: 'https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/31404' do
+    it 'creates a flash message' do
       select_from_listbox 'English', from: 'English'
       click_button 'Save changes'