Merge pull request #11471 from github/rc/3.8

Merge rc/3.8 into main

cpp/ql/lib/definitions.qll

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ import IDEContextual
  *
  * In some cases it is preferable to modify locations (the
  * `hasLocationInfo()` predicate) so that they are short, and
- * non-overlapping with other locations that might be highlighted in
- * the LGTM interface.
+ * non-overlapping with other locations that might be reported as
+ * code scanning alerts on GitHub.
  *
  * We need to give locations that may not be in the database, so
  * we use `hasLocationInfo()` rather than `getLocation()`.

cpp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/RedundantNullCheckSimple.ql

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
  */
 
 /*
- * Note: this query is not assigned a precision yet because we don't want it on
- * LGTM until its performance is well understood.
+ * Note: this query is not assigned a precision yet because we don't want it
+ * to be included in query suites until its performance is well understood.
  */
 
 import cpp

cpp/ql/src/Metrics/Dependencies/ExternalDependencies.qll

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class Library extends LibraryT {
     // The versions reported for C/C++ dependencies are just the versions that
     // happen to be installed on the system where the build takes place.
     // Reporting those versions is likely to cause misunderstandings, both for
-    // people reading them and for the vulnerability checker of lgtm.
+    // people reading them and for vulnerability checkers.
     result = "unknown"
   }