Lift 4.0.0-M2

The Lift Committers are pleased to announce the release of Lift 4.0.0-M2 on July 19th, 2025. This release does include breaking changes.

What's Changed

Remove the persistence components by @farmdawgnation in https://github.com/lift/framework/pull/2020
Remove squeryl and JSON scala combinators parser by @fanf in https://github.com/lift/framework/pull/2026
Build and Readme Updates for Lift 4.x by @farmdawgnation in https://github.com/lift/framework/pull/2024
Correct URL to Lift site in README by @aredridel in https://github.com/lift/framework/pull/2028
Lift-4: remove simple warnings by @fanf in https://github.com/lift/framework/pull/2027
Msf/cicdwork by @farmdawgnation in https://github.com/lift/framework/pull/2025

@fanf made their first contribution in https://github.com/lift/framework/pull/2026
@aredridel made their first contribution in https://github.com/lift/framework/pull/2028

Full Changelog: https://github.com/lift/framework/compare/4.0.0-M1-release...4.0.0-M2-release