Port release fixes into main (#2332)

Porting release PRs into main branch (merging back from release -> main)

Author: mjcheetham

.azure-pipelines/release.yml

@@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ extends:
                     targetType: inline
                     script: |
                       echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=version;isReadOnly=true]$(cat ./VERSION | sed -E 's/.[0-9]+$//')"
+                - task: UseDotNet@2
+                  displayName: 'Use .NET 8 SDK (ESRP dependency)'
+                  inputs:
+                    packageType: sdk
+                    version: '8.x'
                 - task: UseDotNet@2
                   displayName: 'Use .NET 10 SDK'
                   inputs:
@@ -571,6 +576,11 @@ extends:
                     targetType: inline
                     script: |
                       echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=version;isReadOnly=true]$(cat ./VERSION | sed -E 's/.[0-9]+$//')"
+                - task: UseDotNet@2
+                  displayName: 'Use .NET 8 SDK (ESRP dependency)'
+                  inputs:
+                    packageType: sdk
+                    version: '8.x'
                 - task: UseDotNet@2
                   displayName: 'Use .NET 10 SDK'
                   inputs:

src/linux/Packaging.Linux/install-from-source.sh

@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ case "$distribution" in
 
         ensure_dotnet_installed
     ;;
-    arch)
+    arch | cachyos)
         print_unsupported_distro "WARNING" "$distribution"
 
         # --noconfirm required when running from container