This is a maintenance release.

Chores

• CI: fix stale.yml workflow by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3491
• CI: only run release workflow when changing release.yml file by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3492
• Fix: geoip test by pinning geoip.dat to specific version by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3495
• Chore: bump github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 from 5.2.2 to 5.2.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3488
• Chore: bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.10.0 to 1.11.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3487
• Chore: bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.36.6 to 1.36.8 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3483
• Chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.74.2 to 1.75.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3482
• Chore: bump golang.org/x/net from 0.42.0 to 0.43.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3471
• Chore: bump github.com/miekg/dns from 1.1.67 to 1.1.68 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3466
• Chore: bump actions/stale from 8 to 10 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3501
• Chore: bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3467
• CI: upgrade CodeQL from v2 to v3 by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3507
• Docs: update goreportcard badge by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3508
• CI: bump actions/checkout from v3 to v5 by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3509
• CI: bump actions/setup-go to v6 & use go version in go.mod by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3510
• CI: remove unnecessary version option in golangci-lint workflow by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3514
• CI: fix test and test coverage by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3515
• CI: only upload coverage report on Linux by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3516
• Docs: fix badges by @Loyalsoldier in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3517
• Chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.75.0 to 1.75.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3519
• Chore: bump golang.org/x/net from 0.43.0 to 0.44.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3513
• Chore: bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.36.8 to 1.36.9 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3512
• ci: annotate arm64 pie binary with prerelease mark in https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/pull/3521

Full Changelog: https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core/compare/v5.38.0...v5.39.0