chore(main): release 2.3.7

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2.3.7 (2025-10-24)

Bug Fixes

• adds a null value sentinel to enable roundtrip serializations of JsonNode typed properties (337c6eb)
• adds a null value sentinel to enable roundtrip serializations of JsonNode typed properties (63b2b98)
• fixes a bug where yaml null values would end up as a string "null" during roundtrip serialization (6e62de2)
• fixes a bug where yaml null values would end up as a string "null" during roundtrip serialization (994184b)
• YamlConverter adding extra quotes to string values when converting from JSON to YAML (ccfebc8)

Performance Improvements

• do not duplicate nodes when indexing (dbbbf13)
• only initialize map node nodes on demand (bdb5264)
• reduce allocations in mapnode (f58aad2)
• removes the lazy initialization since the node is always enumerated (1c96521)
• switches to lazy instantiation (d3c758b)
• use deep equals for comparison to reduce allocations (6ce3214)

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[baywet]

holding on fix for #2562

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