Since 2.8.2 leans toward being a relatively urgent bug-fix and recipe improvement release for 2.8.1, longer-termed planned ideas got moved into 2.8.3 (and original plans for 2.8.3 as the further-away future moved into 2.8.4 plan)

Point release to address tickets in general, and possible 2.8.0 fallout and 2.7.5 planned remainders that were not addressed in 2.8.1/2.8.2.

• (expected) clean-up of basic data types usage (NUT string API and notably methods for numeric conversions, booleans, ...)
• (expected) clean-up of libusb API variants support [#300 and follow-ups]
• (expected) CI automation for coding style (clang-format)
• (expected) CI automation for use of data points in drivers that conform to patterns defined in docs/nut-names.txt
• (expected) Porting of performance and bug fixes from 42ITy project
• (expected) Bug fixes for fallout possible due to "fightwarn" effort in 2.7.5/2.8.0 - a few were caught in 2.8.1 and 2.8.2
• (expected) Basic C/C++ code built for WIN32 getting on par with POSIX as much as possible (many ifdefs now skip the higher-hanging fruit)