chore: sync main into develop and prepare release 8.0.0 (#454) #1138

Job	Run time
fossa-scan	1m 4s
compliance-copyrights	30s
pre-commit	22s
meta	12s
test-unit 3.11	1m 56s
test-unit 3.10	1m 55s
test-unit 3.9	2m 4s
test-unit 3.12	1m 56s
test-unit 3.13	1m 59s
semgrep / sast-scan	40s
test-splunk (9.4.0, 6b4ebe426ca6, true, false)	2m 55s
test-splunk (9.3.2, d8bb32809498, false, false)	3m 32s
publish	1m 8s
	20m 13s

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