chore(master): release 2.0.0-rc.254

[StarpTech]

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2.0.0-rc.254 (2026-02-20)

Features

• resolve: update astjson to arena-safe API, remove redundant copies (#1400) (850ce6e)

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Summary by CodeRabbit

Release Notes

• Chores
  • Released v2.0.0-rc.254 with performance optimizations
  • Improved internal efficiency and removed redundant operations for enhanced stability
  • Updated changelog documentation

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Version increment from 2.0.0-rc.253 to 2.0.0-rc.254 in the release manifest, with a corresponding new changelog entry documenting astjson API updates for arena-safe usage and removal of redundant copies.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Release versioning release-please-manifest.json, v2/CHANGELOG.md	Updated v2 pre-release version to 2.0.0-rc.254 and added corresponding changelog entry documenting astjson arena-safe API improvements.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• chore(master): release 2.0.0-rc.251 #1390: Updates the same release-please-manifest.json v2 property for version increments.
• chore(master): release 2.0.0-rc.252 #1391: Modifies the same release metadata (manifest v2 version and adds changelog entries).
• chore(master): release 2.0.0-rc.247 #1377: Makes the same type of pre-release version increment to the v2 manifest entry.

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autorelease: tagged

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[StarpTech]

🤖 Created releases:

• v2.0.0-rc.254

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