diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d08e42b3b65..3321ace28fc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ entry.
 - [FIXED] Fixed merge request changes bar jumping.
 - [FIXED] Improve migrations using triggers.
 - [FIXED] Fix ConvDev Index nav item and Monitoring submenu regression.
+- [FIXED] disabling notifications globally now properly turns off group/project added
+  emails !13325
 - [DEPRECATED] Deprecate custom SSH client configuration for the git user. !13930
 - [CHANGED] allow all users to delete their account. !13636 (Jacopo Beschi @jacopo-beschi)
 - [CHANGED] Use full path of project's avatar in webhooks. !13649 (Vitaliy @blackst0ne Klachkov)
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/12673-fix_v3_project_hooks_build_events b/changelogs/unreleased/12673-fix_v3_project_hooks_build_events
deleted file mode 100644
index 59bc646406f..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/12673-fix_v3_project_hooks_build_events
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-title: "Fix v3 api project_hooks POST and PUT operations for build_events"
-merge_request: 12673
-author: Richard Clamp
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/12892-reset-css-text-align-to-initial-for-rtl.md b/changelogs/unreleased/12892-reset-css-text-align-to-initial-for-rtl.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 87e95240bba..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/12892-reset-css-text-align-to-initial-for-rtl.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-title: "reset text-align to initial to let elements with dir="auto" align texts to right in RTL languages ( default is left )"
-merge_request: 12892
-author: goshhob
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/13711-allow-same-period-housekeeping.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/13711-allow-same-period-housekeeping.yml
index 6749e22cf6a..607a8683aff 100644
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/13711-allow-same-period-housekeeping.yml
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/13711-allow-same-period-housekeeping.yml
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 title: Allow to use same periods for different housekeeping tasks (effectively
   skipping the lesser task)
 merge_request: 13711
-author: @cernvcs
+author: cernvcs
 type: added
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/22619-add-an-email-address-to-unsubscribe-list-header-in-email b/changelogs/unreleased/22619-add-an-email-address-to-unsubscribe-list-header-in-email
deleted file mode 100644
index f4011b756a5..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/22619-add-an-email-address-to-unsubscribe-list-header-in-email
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Handle unsubscribe from email notifications via replying to reply+%{key}+unsubscribe@ address
-merge_request: 6597
-author:
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/26908-make-timelogs-use-foreign-keys b/changelogs/unreleased/26908-make-timelogs-use-foreign-keys
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e8f7093b34..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/26908-make-timelogs-use-foreign-keys
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Refactor Timelogs structure to use foreign keys.
-merge_request: 8769
-author:
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/32340-correct-jobs-api-documentation b/changelogs/unreleased/32340-correct-jobs-api-documentation
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ada62356eb..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/32340-correct-jobs-api-documentation
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-title: "Correction to documention for manual steps on the Jobs API"
-merge_request: 11411
-author: Zac Sturgess
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diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/35942-api-binary-encoding.yaml b/changelogs/unreleased/35942-api-binary-encoding.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f7960d860e..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/35942-api-binary-encoding.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-title: "Fix API to serve binary diffs that are treated as text."
-merge_request: 14038
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/36953-add-gitLab-pages-version-to-admin-dashboard.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/36953-add-gitLab-pages-version-to-admin-dashboard.yml
index 680ef0cef92..9ac4a0ae7f3 100644
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/36953-add-gitLab-pages-version-to-admin-dashboard.yml
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/36953-add-gitLab-pages-version-to-admin-dashboard.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
 title: Add GitLab-Pages version to Admin Dashboard
 merge_request: 14040
-author: @travismiller
+author: travismiller
 type: added
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/add-mock-deployment-and-monitoring-service-for-development.yaml b/changelogs/unreleased/add-mock-deployment-and-monitoring-service-for-development.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c81d21a94b..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/add-mock-deployment-and-monitoring-service-for-development.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Added mock deployment and monitoring service with environments fixtures
-merge_request:
-author:
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/lint-changelog-yaml.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/lint-changelog-yaml.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dcc8bf54827
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/lint-changelog-yaml.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: Detect when changelog entries are invalid
+merge_request:
+author:
+type: other
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/repository-name-emojis b/changelogs/unreleased/repository-name-emojis
deleted file mode 100644
index fe52df8eedc..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/repository-name-emojis
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Added ability to put emojis into repository name
-merge_request: 7420
-author: Vincent Composieux
diff --git a/scripts/lint-changelog-yaml b/scripts/lint-changelog-yaml
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..cce5f1c7667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/lint-changelog-yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+require 'yaml'
+
+invalid_changelogs = Dir['changelogs/**/*'].reject do |changelog|
+  next true if changelog =~ /(archive\.md|unreleased(-ee)?)$/
+  next false unless changelog.end_with?('.yml')
+
+  begin
+    YAML.load_file(changelog)
+  rescue
+  end
+end
+
+if invalid_changelogs.any?
+  puts "Invalid changelogs found!\n"
+  puts invalid_changelogs.sort
+  exit 1
+else
+  puts "All changelogs are valid YAML.\n"
+  exit 0
+end
diff --git a/scripts/static-analysis b/scripts/static-analysis
index 295b6f132c1..aeefb2bc96f 100755
--- a/scripts/static-analysis
+++ b/scripts/static-analysis
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ tasks = [
   %w[yarn run eslint],
   %w[bundle exec rubocop --require rubocop-rspec],
   %w[scripts/lint-conflicts.sh],
-  %w[bundle exec rake gettext:lint]
+  %w[bundle exec rake gettext:lint],
+  %w[scripts/lint-changelog-yaml]
 ]
 
 failed_tasks = tasks.reduce({}) do |failures, task|