Synchronize master branch with 2024-patches

Includes:

• Prepare LHCb v55r17 (!4761 (merged))
• Update References for: !4750 (merged), !4729 (merged) based on lhcb-2024-patches-mr/1828 (!4754 (merged))
• Check magic bytes in banks and fails in case of corruption (!4750 (merged))
• Backport Fix in RawDataConnection for compressed MDFs + new tests (!4729 (merged))

To-do:

• validated with lhcb-sim11