Backported chnages

• Bump Scala CLI to v1.12.2 (was v1.11.0) & coursier to 2.1.25-M23 (was 2.1.25-M21) #25217
• Pickle CompactAnnotations as regular annotations #25213
• Drop spurious applies in unpickler and inliner #25201
• Preserve singleton types for final val aliases to Java enum constants #24980
• Avoid NPE when calling hashCode on a value class wrapping null #25110
• Cast inline call results to result type, not method type #25111
• Fix "Compiler crash when calling another file's inline def that uses a private constructor" #24941
• Fix "REPL dependency on scala-parallel-collections doesn't work" #25064
• Fix "Still can't use scala-parallel-collections in REPL via :dep" #25092

Contributors

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

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.8.2-RC1..3.8.2-RC2 these are:

     7 Wojciech Mazur
     2 Li Haoyi
     2 Martin Odersky
     1 Lukas Rytz
     1 Matt Bovel
     1 Som Snytt