chore: release 10.8.4

Author: github-actions[bot]

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  ".": "10.8.3",
+  ".": "10.8.4",
   "workspaces/arborist": "7.5.4",
   "workspaces/libnpmaccess": "8.0.6",
   "workspaces/libnpmdiff": "6.1.4",

AUTHORS

@@ -947,3 +947,4 @@ AmirHossein Sakhravi <[email protected]>
 Hiroo Ono <[email protected]>
 Sonny <[email protected]>
 Alessandro Diez <[email protected]>
+Rhys Evans <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [10.8.4](https://github.com/npm/cli/compare/v10.8.3...v10.8.4) (2024-09-30)
+### Bug Fixes
+* [`6ca609e`](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/6ca609e20b68fb2e5ef8177db116b84a339461fd) [#7789](https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/7789) ping and doctor commands fix for checking if registry is online (#7789) (@milaninfy)
+### Documentation
+* [`63d6a73`](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/63d6a732c3c0e9c19fd4d147eaa5cc27c29b168d) [#7783](https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/7783) package.json: add brief section on exports, link to Node.js docs (#7783) (@wheresrhys)
+* [`366c07e`](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/366c07e2f3cb9d1c6ddbd03e624a4d73fbd2676e) [#7776](https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/7776) remove incorrect note about npm install (#7776) (@wraithgar)
+### Chores
+* [`fefd509`](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/fefd509992a05c2dfddbe7bc46931c42f1da69d7) [#7764](https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/7764) deps: bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4 in /.github/workflows (#7764) (@dependabot[bot], @wraithgar)
+
 ## [10.8.3](https://github.com/npm/cli/compare/v10.8.2...v10.8.3) (2024-08-28)
 ### Bug Fixes
 * [`7e61151`](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/7e61151b9ab4f62a83e9ea8bcfa15ece11b6a1fd) [#7759](https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/7759) docs: init usage description corrected (#7759) (@milaninfy)

package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "npm",
-  "version": "10.8.3",
+  "version": "10.8.4",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "npm",
-      "version": "10.8.3",
+      "version": "10.8.4",
       "bundleDependencies": [
         "@isaacs/string-locale-compare",
         "@npmcli/arborist",

package.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "version": "10.8.3",
+  "version": "10.8.4",
   "name": "npm",
   "description": "a package manager for JavaScript",
   "workspaces": [