Backported changes

• Fix #24599: Remove | Null from implicit BigDecimal conversion similar to BigInt #24600
• Fix #24571: Handling nullable types in convertTo for adapting number constants to target number types #24580
• Fix #24547: Strip inferred retains annotation from Macro/inline call trees #24560
• Allow annotations to annotate themselves #24447
• Allow to generate the documentation of the stdlib #24574
• Avoid blowup of compute times for ill-formed retains #24564
• Cleanups and source compatibility improvements for repl.AbstractFileClassLoader #24514
• Deprecate the content of the scala.runtime.stdLibPatches package #24587
• Do not add scala.util.Properties as the Main-Class in the Manifest #24540
• Drop -Yno-stdlib-patches #24477
• Fix generic signatures for mixin forwarders conflicting type parameter names #24567
• Look at the underlying of a TermRef for a getter #24565
• Make compilationUnitInfo of TastyLoader lazy #24604
• Make scala.Predef capture checked #24643
• Refine parameter adaptation logic for arrays #23591
• Strip CC annotations in TypeMap when CC is not enabled #24556

Contributors

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

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.8.0-RC2..3.8.0-RC3 these are:

    22  Hamza Remmal
    12  Wojciech Mazur
     6  noti0na1
     3  Matt Bovel
     2  Martin Odersky
     1  Oliver Bračevac