chore(main): release 8.0.0 - #3463

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8.0.0 (2026-10-29)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• auth: migrate custom OAuth app login to the device flow (#3449)
• renderer: remove legacy context storage migration (#3515)

🚀 Features

• add CI checks pill for pull requests (#3548) (89c63d6)
• add screen reader labels to metric pills (#3542) (98af9f0)
• align stacked and linked issue pill labels to Type: value format (4e4ae21)
• align stacked PR and linked issue pill labels to Type: value format (#3551) (4e4ae21)
• auth: migrate custom OAuth app login to the device flow (#3449) (358206c)
• i18n: add internationalization support (#3523) (f5b1698)
• notifications: add loading state for initial fetch (#3460) (51ec01a)
• notifications: show loading state on initial fetch (51ec01a)
• open linked issue when clicking the linked issues pill (#3546) (dff5e3e)
• settings: add help tooltips to remaining controls (#3494) (3bf9e9b)
• show milestone state in milestone pill tooltip (#3544) (db167ef)
• show only issue number in parent issue pill (#3540) (7b6e3bc)
• show review required indicator in reviews pill (#3549) (4d47efd)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• a11y: accessible names for help buttons and scope status icons (#3558) (3866936)
• a11y: give help buttons and scope status icons accessible names (3866936)
• clarify GitHub device-flow and classic PAT login copy (#3298) (9687027)
• github: reduce merged GraphQL batch size to avoid resource limits (#3559) (ea7d72f)
• remove duplicate tab stop on non-clickable metric pills (#3545) (c4ffed3)
• test unique keys (0ee38fb)
• tests (727b191)
• use stack icon and gray color for stacked pull request pill (#3543) (dce51bc)

⚡️ Performance

• decouple notification actions from the notifications query (#3426) (3df1176)

🧼 Code Refactoring

• filters: adopt Primer checkbox and help popover (#3497) (9035425)
• lint: share renderer boundary file globs (#3488) (f821b1f)
• make milestone pill prop optional (#3547) (1a01ca2)
• renderer: break import cycles and enable no-cycle globally (#3489) (d9d166e)
• renderer: import store modules directly in utils (#3490) (0676c29)
• renderer: model chevron icon choice as a direction (#3527) (215bb5c)
• renderer: polish tooltip copy (#3495) (8ed45cf)
• renderer: remove legacy Context storage migration (2a15119)
• renderer: remove legacy context storage migration (#3515) (2a15119)
• reorder metric pills into a logical flow (#3541) (73207d5)
• settings: align control visibility gating (#3493) (095a2b9)
• settings: refresh controls with Primer (#3496) (6797023)
• settings: split inbox and alert sections (#3492) (f9510fe)
• tooltips copy (8ed45cf)

📚 Documentation

• complete TSDoc accuracy and add guardrails (#3530) (ada11aa)
• complete TSDoc accuracy and guardrails (ada11aa)
• define TSDoc convention and align IPC docs (#3528) (635e09d)

🤖 Continuous Integration

• keep milestone description in sync with release version (#3552) (5b97ade)
• labeler: accept breaking-change markers in PR titles (#3513) (b37c1f3)

📦 Dependency Updates (Core)

• deps-core: update @primer/octicons-react to v19.41.0 (#3471) (4a5c670)
• deps-core: update @primer/octicons-react to v19.42.0 (#3532) (505c71c)
• deps-core: update @primer/react to v38.42.0 (#3472) (d5574cb)
• deps-core: update @primer/react to v38.43.0 (#3533) (f64ab57)
• deps-core: update electron to v44.9.1 [security] (#3462) (7867b82)
• deps-core: update electron to v45 (#3478) (66425fc)
• deps-core: update electron-menubar to v11.1.2 (#3480) (c56b4f8)
• deps-core: update electron-updater to v6.8.11 (#3467) (fbf4d98)

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