Merging dbe6f21 into releases/v2

Conductor for this PR is @cklin

Contains the following pull requests:

• Introduce a feature-flag to enable/disable lua-based tracing. #1057 - Introduce a feature-flag to enable/disable lua-based tracing. (@criemen)
• Mergeback v2.1.11 refs/heads/releases/v2 into main #1079 - Mergeback v2.1.11 refs/heads/releases/v2 into main (@edoardopirovano)
• Remove outdated guidance on missing analysis #1081 - Remove outdated guidance on missing analysis (@marcogario)
• Update default CodeQL to 2.9.3 #1084 - Update default CodeQL to 2.9.3 (@cklin)

Please review the following:

• The CHANGELOG displays the correct version and date.
• The CHANGELOG includes all relevant, user-facing changes since the last release.
• There are no unexpected commits being merged into the releases/v2 branch.
• The docs team is aware of any documentation changes that need to be released.
• The mergeback PR is merged back into main after this PR is merged.
• The v1 release PR is merged after this PR is merged.