Merge changes from topic "profile-v3" into main

* changes:
  nix3-profile: remove check "name" attr in manifests
  Add profile migration test
  nix3-profile: make element names stable
  getNameFromURL(): Support uppercase characters in attribute names
  nix3-profile: remove indices
  nix3-profile: allow using human-readable names to select packages
  implement parsing human-readable names from URLs

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diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/nix-profile-names.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/nix-profile-names.md
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+---
+synopsis: "`nix profile` now allows referring to elements by human-readable name, and no longer accepts indices"
+prs: 8678
+cls: [978, 980]
+---
+
+[`nix profile`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile.md) now uses names to refer to installed packages when running [`list`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-list.md), [`remove`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-remove.md) or [`upgrade`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-upgrade.md) as opposed to indices. Indices have been removed. Profile element names are generated when a package is installed and remain the same until the package is removed.
+
+**Warning**: The `manifest.nix` file used to record the contents of profiles has changed. Nix will automatically upgrade profiles to the new version when you modify the profile. After that, the profile can no longer be used by older versions of Nix.