chore(master): release 2.81.0

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2.81.0 (2026-09-13)

Features

• autodiscovery: let the API carry credentials and the hosted form skip the settings step (f78b62e)

Bug Fixes

• api: skip the server settings step by default for minted setup links (2c43c60)
• deps: move the packages that pin nodemailer onto 10.0.9 and dedupe the tree (db2abd8)
• deps: update bull-board and simplewebauthn (66ab196)
• deps: update joi-messages to 1.1.3 for the Joi 18 validation messages (c62b34c)
• deps: update nodemailer to 10.0.8 across the packages that pin it (6dc08f7)
• docker: bump the node:24-alpine base image digest (7e6808b)
• docker: health-check the container over 127.0.0.1, not localhost (31ab205)
• docker: pass the commit hash as a build arg instead of reading a branch ref (c2c03c8)
• i18n: fill the empty plural forms in the certificate count (d51803d)
• i18n: improve translation wording and consistency (576e692)
• i18n: translate the remaining hosted form labels and refresh the catalogs (b04784c)
• sentry: report the release with its package prefix so Sentry can order versions (7bda29f)
• sso: stop the forced-SSO hand-off flashing the login page before it leaves (9e64618)
• test: fail a stalled test run instead of waiting for the CI job to be killed (9631512)
• test: follow the admin copy pass into the two specs it broke (1524368)
• test: force the test runner to exit so one leaked handle cannot hang a tier (bbdccdb)
• translations: add Spanish, Italian and Turkish for the public UI (d2089c3)
• translations: add Swedish for the public UI (048c086)
• ui: make the admin copy consistent and say what each screen actually does (d7bb57d)
• ui: make the admin pages read on a phone and stop badges printing over their neighbours (46e6d49)
• ui: refine admin form labels and guidance (eaa7d00)

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