Cherry pick 53051 into trunk (woocommerce#53118)

Use payment method directly, rather than through a payment intent (woocommerce#53051)

* Use payment method directly, rather than through a payment intent

* Add changefile(s) from automation for the following project(s): woocommerce

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Readme.txt and changelog updates for 9.4.2. (woocommerce#52929)

Update expected 9.5.0 release date. (woocommerce#52791)

Prep release/9.4 for 9.4 cycle (woocommerce#52751)

Prep release/9.4 for 9.4 cycle with version bump to 9.4.1

Cherry pick CFE and PRR flow to release/9.4 (woocommerce#52710)

* New CFE flow (woocommerce#51182)

* Create changelog during build step

* removed changelog generation during code freeze step

* lint fixes

* modified monorepo messaging

* Added changelog

* added workflow dispatch

* version override

* renamed file

* New CFE workflow (woocommerce#51207)

* New CFE workflow

* added slack notifications

* lint fixes

* continue workflow only if the label is present

* Bump to github scripts v7

* Moved notification to core releases daily channel

* New CFE workflow notifications (woocommerce#51466)

* New CFE workflow notifications

* added notification for woo release slack channel

* add woo core daily slack channel

* remove github debug

* change notification channel to Woo core releases

* New CFE workflow GitHub template (woocommerce#51468)

* New CFE github template

* review changes

* review changes

* CFE - added strict check for PR and release number extracted from issue body (woocommerce#52002)

* Init

* comment tweak

* changelog

* use gihub recommended method

* removed content write permission

* change in how to extract PR number

* regex change

* template updates

* updated comments

* set global permission to empty and moved it within each job

* refactored code, created a needs step

* add condition to prep

* added acknowdegement section

* added github comment

* Moved variables to env

* review changes

* PRR flow (woocommerce#52160)

* init

* comment tweak

* changelog

* use gihub recommended method

* removed content write permission

* change in how to extract PR number

* change in how to extract PR number

* change in how to extract PR number

* regex change

* regex change

* template updates

* updated comments

* set global permission to empty and moved it within each job

* refactored code, created a needs step

* add condition to prep

* added acknowdegement section

* added github comment

* Moved variables to env

* PRR template

* PRR template changes

* Added changes to cfe notifications

* minor changes

* Added slack message sanitization

* PRR cherry-pick flow

* add cherry pick to frozen release label

* bug fix

* use js instead of shell

* use js instead of shell

* template updates

* frozen release as output

* added some comments

* pr base change

* pr base change

* descp change

* copy changes

* Added checkboxes conformation

* added ack section

* fixed bug

* fixed bug

* fixed bug

* typo

* bug fix

* bug fix

* added logic for github comment

* bug fix

* GH PR comment

* GH PR comment for CFE flow

* GH PR comment for CFE flow

* changelog

* In complechangelog step - extract version from branch

* add validation for manual version input

* log the version user entered

* log the version user entered

* rebased changes

* Code refactor

* bug fixes and formatting

* code refactor

* bug fixes

* template updates and using context object instead of parsing

* bug fixes

* renamed file

* moved vars to env

* Improved messaging when CFE or PRR request is rejected (woocommerce#52377)

Improved messaging for CFE file

* Apply milestone when the CFE or PRR issue is created (woocommerce#52406)

Apply milestone when the CFE/PRR issue is created

* Change description for CFE and PRR templates (woocommerce#52459)

* Change description for CFE and PRR templates

* removed changelog files

9.4 RC4 (woocommerce#52675)

Bump to RC4, update expected release date.

Prep release/9.4 for 9.4 cycle (woocommerce#52590)

Prep release/9.4 for 9.4 cycle with version bump to 9.4.0-rc.3

Prep release/9.4 for 9.4 cycle (woocommerce#52387)

Prep release/9.4 for 9.4 cycle with version bump to 9.4.0-rc.2

Prep release/9.4 for 9.4 cycle (woocommerce#52196)

Prep release/9.4 for 9.4 cycle with version bump to 9.4.0-rc.1

Prepare 2.5.0 Beta Tester Release (woocommerce#52181)

* Update changelog.txt

* Bump version

* Update composer.lock