Next release snap

[marcelstoer]

This was triggered by Gregor's comment at https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware/pull/3633#issuecomment-1930439746.

It's been ages since we last snapped something back to the release branch. What we documented at https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware/blob/release/CONTRIBUTING.md#handling-releases is mostly still correct 😄

[HHHartmann]

Would like to add 1 or 2 pull reques first.

[marcelstoer]

@HHHartmann which ones did you have in mind?

[HHHartmann]

I would suggest these at least:

• [x] #3637
• [x] #3632
• [x] #3633

and maybe this one, but it would need a little bit of love first

• [x] #3450

And of course I'd still like to get this integrated:

• [x] #3230

[marcelstoer]

The first four seemed like no-brainers. Hence, I felt confident to merge them 😄

As for the last one, I'm completely lost, not my world.

[HHHartmann]

When merging this PR a github workflow should start creating the release note together with attached luac.cross binaries for windows. So give it some time. Trigger is:

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '3.*-release_*'

[HHHartmann]

found some more changes that hepled me:

• [x] #3638