chore(source-orb): fix stale external documentation URLs in metadata

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What

Found during an API deprecation audit of the Orb vendor API (requested by Danylo Jablonski, gl_danylo.jablonski@airbyte.io).

Two externalDocumentationUrls entries in source-orb's metadata return 404:

• https://docs.withorb.com/reference/api-reference
• https://docs.withorb.com/reference/authentication

There was also no link to Orb's changelog, which is the only place Orb announces API changes (their docs site has no changelog or deprecations page).

Resolves https://github.com/airbytehq/oncall/issues/13218

• https://github.com/airbytehq/oncall/issues/13218

How

Repointed the two dead URLs at their live equivalents and added the changelog as api_release_history. Verified HTTP status of every URL in the block:

URL	Status
https://docs.withorb.com/api-reference	200
https://docs.withorb.com/essentials/authentication	200
https://changelog.withorb.com	200
https://status.withorb.com/	200

Review guide

1. airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-orb/metadata.yaml — externalDocumentationUrls only. No version bump, matching the precedent in b02a7b2 (chore(source-github): update stale external documentation URL in metadata).

User Impact

None. Metadata-only change; no connector behavior or spec change.

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source-orb Connector Test Results

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CI note: source-orb Pre-Release Checks fails on Connector Version Increment Check (dockerImageTag not incremented), and Test source-orb Connector fails during collection with ValueError: Acceptance tests config not found in acceptance-test-config.yml.

Both are expected for a metadata-URL-only change and were deliberately not worked around:

• No version bump: this PR changes only externalDocumentationUrls, which has no effect on the published connector image. The directly comparable precedent, chore(source-github): update stale external documentation URL in metadata #82265 (chore(source-github): update stale external documentation URL in metadata), was merged on 2026-07-30 with the same four checks red (Connector CI Checks Summary, Lint, Test, Build and Verify Artifacts, Pre-Release Checks).
• acceptance-test-config.yml is byte-for-byte unchanged from master in this branch, so the acceptance-test collection error is not caused by this diff.

Happy to bump dockerImageTag and add a changelog entry if maintainers prefer a green build over the metadata-only precedent.

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