Release: Prerelease 8.0.0-alpha.1

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This is an automated pull request that bumps the version from 8.0.0-alpha.0 to 8.0.0-alpha.1.
Once this pull request is merged, it will trigger a new release of version 8.0.0-alpha.1.
If you're not a core maintainer with permissions to release you can ignore this pull request.

To do

Before merging the PR, there are a few QA steps to go through:

• Add the "freeze" label to this PR, to ensure it doesn't get automatically forced pushed by new changes.
• Add the "ci:daily" label to this PR, to trigger the full test suite to run on this PR.

And for each change below:

1. Ensure the change is appropriate for the version bump. E.g. patch release should only contain patches, not new or de-stabilizing features. If a change is not appropriate, revert the PR.
2. Ensure the PR is labeled correctly with one of: "BREAKING CHANGE", "feature request", "bug", "maintenance", "dependencies", "documentation", "build", "unknown".
3. Ensure the PR title is correct, and follows the format "[Area]: [Summary]", e.g. "React: Fix hooks in CSF3 render functions". If it is not correct, change the title in the PR.
   • Areas include: React, Vue, Core, Docs, Controls, etc.
   • First word of summary indicates the type: “Add”, “Fix”, “Upgrade”, etc.
   • The entire title should fit on a line

This is a list of all the PRs merged and commits pushed directly to next, that will be part of this release:

• ✨ Feature Request: NextJS: Add experimental RSC support #25091
• 🐛 Bug: Viewport: Fix viewport dts files #25107 (will also be patched)
• 🔧 Maintenance: Next.js: Drop Next.js < v13.5 support #25104
• 🔧 Maintenance: Angular: Drop v14.x support #25101
• 🐛 Bug: Angular: Fix CSF Plugin #25098 (will also be patched)
• 🐛 Bug: Build: Fix Angular sandbox #23896
• 🐛 Bug: Next.js: Add next/font/local declarations support #24983 (will also be patched)
• 🔧 Maintenance: Next.js: Update validateData function for next/font compatibility #25061
• ❗ Breaking Change: React: Set react-docgen to default TS docgen #24165
• 🐛 Bug: React-Docgen: Make error-handling more gentle #25055 (will also be patched)
• 🐛 Bug: Next.js: Fix next/font/local usage in babel mode #25045 (will also be patched)
• 🐛 Bug: CLI: Improve dependency metadata detection in storybook doctor #25037 (will also be patched)
• ✨ Feature Request: CLI: Point the update-notice to the changelog in the suggested version #19911
• 🔧 Maintenance: React: Change StoryFnReactReturnType to JSX.Element #23204
• 🐛 Bug: Next.js: Fix AppRouterProvider usage #25032 (will also be patched)
• 🐛 Bug: SvelteKit: Fix HMR not working #25031 (will also be patched)
• 🐛 Bug: Webpack: Fix exclude regex in react-docgen-loader #25030 (will also be patched)
• 🔧 Maintenance: TypeScript: Migrate @storybook/docs-tools to strict TS #22567
• 🔧 Maintenance: UI: Add stricter types to the language property of the SyntaxHighlighter #22790
• 🔧 Maintenance: CLI: Typescript strict mode #22254
• ✨ Feature Request: CSF: Autotitle fix multiple dots and handle stories.js #21840
• 📝 Documentation: Docs: Fix Typo in A11y snippet #25122 (will also be patched)
• 🏗️ Build: Build: Remove link forced option for Angular sandboxes #25099
• 📝 Documentation: Docs: Fix ArgTypes links #25084 (will also be patched)
• 📝 Documentation: Docs: Test coverage add callout for configuration #25065
• 📝 Documentation: Docs: Re-introduce missing snapshot testing docs #25058
• 📝 Documentation: Docs: Minor Fixes and cleanup #25048 (will also be patched)
• 📝 Documentation: Docs: Add control: false, table.disable to argTypes API reference #25041 (will also be patched)
• 🏗️ Build: Build: Migrate @storybook/manager-api to strict TS #24069
• 📝 Documentation: Docs: Point people to GH Discussions from repo readme #24952 (will also be patched)
• ❔ Missing Label: Typescript: Strict compile option for codemods package #23373
• ❔ Missing Label: Revert "Docs: Raw support for mjs, jsx, and tsx files" #25015
• ❔ Missing Label: Docs: Raw support for mjs, jsx, and tsx files #21671
• 📝 Documentation: Documentation: Updated TS documentation for re-using play functions #21517

If you've made any changes doing the above QA (change PR titles, revert PRs), manually trigger a re-generation of this PR with this workflow and wait for it to finish. It will wipe your progress in this to do, which is expected.

Feel free to manually commit any changes necessary to this branch after you've done the last re-generation, following the Make Manual Changes section in the docs, especially if you're making changes to the changelog.

When everything above is done:

• Merge this PR
• Follow the run of the publish action

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Generated changelog

8.0.0-alpha.1

• Angular: Drop v14.x support - #25101, thanks @ valentinpalkovic!
• Angular: Fix CSF Plugin - #25098, thanks @ valentinpalkovic!
• Build: Fix Angular sandbox - #23896, thanks @ Marklb!
• CLI: Improve dependency metadata detection in storybook doctor - #25037, thanks @ yannbf!
• CLI: Point the update-notice to the changelog in the suggested version - #19911, thanks @ cprecioso!
• CLI: Typescript strict mode - #22254, thanks @ 0916dhkim!
• CSF: Autotitle fix multiple dots and handle stories.js - #21840, thanks @ agriffis!
• Next.js: Add next/font/local declarations support - #24983, thanks @ MauricioRobayo!
• Next.js: Drop Next.js < v13.5 support - #25104, thanks @ valentinpalkovic!
• Next.js: Fix AppRouterProvider usage - #25032, thanks @ valentinpalkovic!
• Next.js: Fix next/font/local usage in babel mode - #25045, thanks @ valentinpalkovic!
• Next.js: Update validateData function for next/font compatibility - #25061, thanks @ kkirby!
• NextJS: Add experimental RSC support - #25091, thanks @ shilman!
• React-Docgen: Make error-handling more gentle - #25055, thanks @ valentinpalkovic!
• React: Change StoryFnReactReturnType to JSX.Element - #23204, thanks @ chakAs3!
• React: Set react-docgen to default TS docgen - #24165, thanks @ shilman!
• SvelteKit: Fix HMR not working - #25031, thanks @ JReinhold!
• TypeScript: Migrate @storybook/docs-tools to strict TS - #22567, thanks @ efrenaragon96!
• UI: Add stricter types to the language property of the SyntaxHighlighter - #22790, thanks @ valentinpalkovic!
• Viewport: Fix viewport dts files - #25107, thanks @ kasperpeulen!
• Webpack: Fix exclude regex in react-docgen-loader - #25030, thanks @ valentinpalkovic!