2.0.0-rc-2 - preparations for 2.0.0-final

[szpak]

Notable changes:

• Add closeStagingRepositories and releaseStagingRepositories summary tasks - Kotlin DSL friendly overall tasks #236 (PR by @Vampire)
• Require Gradle 6.2+
• Ability to build itself with Gradle 8.5
• Multiple internal refactorings and improved idiomaticity (PRs by @TWiStErRob and @3flex)
• Drop kotlin-dsl plugin and remove redundant buildSrc - Drop kotlin-dsl plugin #295 and Remove buildSrc #301 (PRs by @3flex)
• Make the artifact ID explicit rather than relying on implicit naming - Make the artifact ID explicit rather than relying on implicit naming. #255 (PR by @TWiStErRob)
• Massive dependency upgrades with Renovate

Full list of changes: v2.0.0-rc-1...v2.0.0-rc-2

Thanks to all the contributors to this release: @TWiStErRob, @3flex, @Goooler, @Vampire, @espertus and @renovate-bot ;-).

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[markslater]

Do you have a schedule in mind for the release of 2.0.0? I'm itching to get my hands on it!

[TWiStErRob]

Did you try rc-2? Everything works?

[markslater]

Yes, everything seems to work perfectly in 2.0.0-rc-2 for me on a sample project. The only (minor) breaking change I encountered was closeAndReleaseStagingRepository becoming closeAndReleaseStagingRepositories.

[szpak]

@markslater 2.0.0-final has just been released: https://github.com/gradle-nexus/publish-plugin/releases/tag/v2.0.0