changes with compatibility implications

• dependencyTree displays internal config, which includes Provided by @eed3si9n in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8359

🚀 updates

• Adds Scala 3.8 REPL support by @eed3si9n in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8349
• deps: Update to Scala 2.12.21 by @xuwei-k in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8407
• BSP: Returns build targets sources from buildTarget/dependencySources request by @azdrojowa123 in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8415
• Adds JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS support in the sbt runner by @sideeffffect in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8413
• Updates semanticdbVersion to 4.14.1 by @xuwei-k in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8342

🐛 bug fixes

• fix: Parses *.sbt files with -Xsource:3 by @eed3si9n in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8368
• fix: Manually construct the string "org.fusesource.jansi" to support sbt 0.13 on Windows by @vasilmkd in https://github.com/sbt/launcher/pull/139
• fix: Fixes Javadoc support on JDK 21 by @adpi2 in https://github.com/sbt/zinc/pull/1622

behind the scenes

• Allows scala3_library to be a JAR-less artifact for Scala 3.8 by @hamzaremmal in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8387
• Update Scala 2.13 used for util cross building to 2.13.18 by @mkurz in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8395
• ci: Update checkout references to 1.12.x by @eed3si9n in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8355
• ci: Bump coursier/cache-action from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8353
• ci: Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8384

new contributors

• @danicheg made their first contribution in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8346
• @hamzaremmal made their first contribution in https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/8387

Full Changelog: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/compare/v1.11.7...v1.12.0-RC1