v2.4.0-pre

What's Changed

• chore: prep for 2.3 release; update next version, changelog header by Noel Cothren (@noeldevelops) in #3370
• MINOR: set project-level .npmrc to point at public npm registry by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3373
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3374
• chore(CI): set up scheduled npm audit fix pipeline by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3372
• MINOR: fix allowed-tools syntax for claude skills by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3377
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3378
• chore(CI): set up scheduled availability tests by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3332
• E2E: remove dedicated teardown for LOCAL connections, and allow containers to preexist on startup by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3363
• MINOR: update npm audit scheduled task to run daily by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3381
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3382
• [main] chore: update sidecar version to 0.271.0 by Stefan Sprenger (@flippingbits) in #3384
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3383
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3385
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3387
• MINOR: remove 'weekly' mentions in for scheduled npm audit fix [ci skip] by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3389
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3388
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3390
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3391
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3393
• 🍒 [main] fix: allow suppressing telemetry calls through executeInWorkerPool by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3395
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3396
• [main] update changelog for 2.3.1 patch release by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3401
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3404
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3405
• fix(E2E): add container loading helper to View page object model base by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3367
• fix(E2E): wait for workspace load in Flink artifact setup by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3375
• fix(CI): set up precheck pipeline for scheduled prereleases by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3380
• fix(build): run gql.tada CLI via node to avoid Windows cmd hang by Corey Christous (@cchristous) in #3409
• [DP-19090] Migrate Windows CI jobs from Windows 2019 to Windows 2025 by Corey Christous (@cchristous) in #3406
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3410
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3412
• fix(E2E): pin CCloud resource names and harden navigation/lookup patterns by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3407
• fix: upload extension+sidecar logs as CI artifacts for CCloud auth smoketests by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3411
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3413
• MINOR: remove view-level progress indicator from Flink Database view by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3414
• chore: add E2E tests for Flink UDFs by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3386
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3415
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3420
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3421
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3422
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3423
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3424
• [main] chore: update sidecar version to 0.273.0 by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3419
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3426
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3428
• retry transient CCloud errors when fetching Flink statement results by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3427
• Ability to submit Flink statements in snapshot mode. by James Robinson (@jlrobins) in #3425
• Flink Snapshot Statement UI affordances. by James Robinson (@jlrobins) in #3431
• New user setting for default Flink snapshot vs streaming statement submission. by James Robinson (@jlrobins) in #3434
• MINOR fix(CI): increase execution time limit for release E2E smoketests to 30 minutes by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3435
• MINOR: update claude settings.json permissions to use 'Edit' instead of 'Write' for .env files by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3439
• chore: bump @vscode/test-electron to v3 to fix macOS test launch by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3440
• fix(authz): make schema access 403 test hit real denial path by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3438
• Implement canAccessSchemaForTopic() unit tests by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3436
• refactor(storage): use mapToString() in addDirectConnection() by Dave Shoup (@shouples) in #3446
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3449
• [main] chore(deps): npm audit fix by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3452
• [main] chore: update third party notices [ci skip] by @semaphore-agent-production[bot] in #3430
• chore: update repo by service bot by @service-bot-app[bot] in #3460

Full Changelog: v2.3.1...v2.4.0-pre