✨ Added gift subscriptions

[mike182uk]

ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3597

Gift subscriptions let anyone purchase a paid subscription on behalf of someone else — a friend, family member, or colleague — giving them full access to a site’s paid content for up to a year.

[coderabbitai]

No actionable comments were generated in the recent review. 🎉

ℹ️ Recent review info

⚙️ Run configuration

Configuration used: Path: .coderabbit.yaml

Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Pro

Run ID: 022b6299-639f-4295-92bf-4b6e735900e3

📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 3146297 and 8c810f5.

📒 Files selected for processing (2)

• apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/advanced/labs/private-features.tsx
• ghost/core/core/shared/labs.js

💤 Files with no reviewable changes (1)

• ghost/core/core/shared/labs.js

---

Walkthrough

This PR promotes the giftSubscriptions feature flag from private experimental status to GA in core labs (so it is always enabled and removed from the writable allowlist) and updates the admin UI private features list to remove Gift Subscriptions and add Smarter Counts (smarterCounts flag).

Possibly related PRs

• TryGhost/Ghost#27982: Changes giftSubscriptions lab/feature flag plumbing in core labs, directly related to moving the flag to GA and its UI effects.

Suggested reviewers

• minimaluminium
• sagzy

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The PR title 'Added gift subscriptions' accurately describes the main change: promoting gift subscriptions from private to GA features, though it uses a generic emoji and doesn't capture the promotion aspect.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description provides relevant context about gift subscriptions functionality and references the related Linear issue, directly relating to the changeset.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

_{✏️ Tip: You can configure your own custom pre-merge checks in the settings.}

✨ Finishing Touches

📝 Generate docstrings

• Create stacked PR
• Commit on current branch

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch BER-3597-promote-to-ga

---

_{Comment @coderabbitai help to get the list of available commands and usage tips.}