Backported changes

• Upgrade ASM to 9.9 for JDK 26 support #24430
• Bump Scala CLI to 1.10.1 (was 1.10.0) #24448
• Add missing -language:experimental.* settings #24513
• Indicate deprecated option aliases #24359
• Fix #24456: Cleanup the info of a Bind symbol in posttyper #24490
• Ignore selection prototypes when typing type applications #24489
• Revert "do not patch the implicit scope of scala.Unit in Scala.js" #24475
• CheckUnused examines type of Apply #24465
• Have the correct properties when testing Scala.js #24463
• Make Java defined functions nullary when we override them #24461
• Add missing mapSourceURI for scala-library-sjs project #24450
• Allow to compile scala.AnyVal with Scala 3 #24406

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.8.0-RC1..3.8.0-RC2 these are:

     7  Hamza Remmal
     4  Wojciech Mazur
     2  Martin Odersky
     2  Som Snytt
     1  Piotr Chabelski
     1  Seth Tisue
     1  noti0na1