Update Dashboards with Layout Builder module from 2.1.6 to 2.1.7 ( ~2 ) and remove committed patches

Problem/Motivation

Dashboards with Layout Builder 2.1.7 was released on: 19 Mar 2024 by: Erik Seifert
https://www.drupal.org/project/dashboards/releases/2.1.7

Proposed resolution

• Change drupal/dashboards to ~2 in the composer.json file.
• Remove committed patches:
  • #3409306: Fix calling of a static method on a multilingual Drupal ~10.2.0 under PHP 8.1, 8.2
  • #3356296: Fix Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in the system Info dashboard plugin
  • #3413086: Fix Deprecated function: strpos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated

Remaining tasks

• ✅ File an issue about this project
• ✅ Addition/Change/Update/Fix to this project
• ✅ Testing to ensure no regression
• ➖ Automated unit/functional testing coverage
• ➖ Developer Documentation support on feature change/addition
• ➖ User Guide Documentation support on feature change/addition
• ➖ UX/UI designer responsibilities
• ➖ Accessibility and Readability
• ✅ Code review from 1 Varbase core team member
• ✅ Full testing and approval
• ✅ Credit contributors
• ✅ Review with the product owner
• ✅ Update Release Notes and Update Helper on new feature change/addition
• ✅ Release varbase-10.0.0-rc2, varbase_dashboards-1.0.1

Varbase update type

• ✅ No Update
• ➖ Optional Update
• ➖ Forced Update
• ➖ Forced Update if Unchanged

User interface changes

• N/A

API changes

• N/A

Data model changes

• N/A

Release notes snippet

• Issue #3433225: Updated Dashboards with Layout Builder module from 2.1.6 to 2.1.7 ( ~2 ) and removed committed patches