Release v2.8.0

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Prepare release v2.8.0

Changes

• [cli] Fix incorrect path resolution in the repo commands #1690
• [cli] Improve checkHeaders --type changes to diff against the default branch, so the checked files match a pull request's changed files #1694
• [cli] Make the CLI commands package-manager aware and add releng publish in place of lerna publish #1697
• [cli] Fix the pnpm path resolution of the updateNext command #1698
• [cli] Rework repo link and repo unlink onto pnpm link: overrides and build each linked repo, so the overrides resolve to compiled output #1703
• [cli] Add an interactive option to the releng publish command #1706
• [cli] Fix change detection of the checkHeaders command #1707
• [eslint-config] Re-enable the core no-unused-expressions rule and drop eslint-plugin-chai-friendly, which is obsolete now that assertions are function calls #1708

Potentially Breaking Changes

• [deps] Update the shared dev dependencies to their current major versions #1701
  • ESLint 9.x to 10.x, along with @stylistic 2.x to 5.x, globals 15.x to 17.x, and eslint-plugin-import-x floored to >=4.16.2. The preserve-caught-error rule, new in ESLint 10's recommended set, is disabled.
  • Prettier 2.x to 3.x, which reformats markdown list markers to a single space
  • sinon 15.x to 22.x, rimraf 5.x to 6.x, esbuild 0.25 to 0.28, and reflect-metadata 0.1 to 0.2
• [node] Raise the minimum Node version to ^22.13.0 || >=24, required by ESLint 10 #1701
• [ts-config] Migrate the shared target and lib to ES2023 #1702
  • useDefineForClassFields is set to false to preserve property injection
• [config] Migrate the shared test stack from Mocha, nyc, chai and sinon to Vitest #1705
  • New @eclipse-glsp/vitest-config package providing a ready-to-use shared flat config; the obsolete mocha-config and nyc-config packages are dropped
  • config-test now bundles the Vitest config and test dependencies in place of Mocha and nyc
  • The bespoke coverage-report CLI command is removed in favor of vitest --coverage

Note: This pull request was created automatically. After merging, the automated publishing process will be started.