We'd like to extend a big thank you to the 4 contributors who made this release possible. Here are some highlights ✨:
- 🐞 Bugfixes
The following team members contributed to this release:
@Janpot, @JCQuintas, @LukasTy, @michelengelen
Date and Time Pickers
@mui/x-date-pickers@8.29.4
- [fields] Focus the section synchronously on
mousedown(#23647) @michelengelen - [pickers] Preserve plain Day.js values across system DST changes (#23771) @LukasTy
@mui/x-date-pickers-pro@8.29.4 
Same changes as in @mui/x-date-pickers@8.29.4.
Core
- [code-infra] Fix the publish workflow failing on an outdated Node version (#23392) @JCQuintas
- [code-infra] Pin npm 11 to fix the v8 publish workflow (#23397) @JCQuintas
- [code-infra] Remove disabled Discord release announcement workflow (#23555) @Janpot