Backport "[regression] Publish nightly releases and releases using Java 8" to LTS (#20925)

Backports #19722 to the LTS branch.

PR submitted by the release tooling.
[skip ci]

Author: WojciechMazur

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -554,8 +554,8 @@ jobs:
       SONATYPE_USER: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_USER_ORGSCALALANG }}
 
     steps:
-      - name: Set JDK 17 as default
-        run: echo "/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Set JDK 8 as default
+        run: echo "/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
       - name: Reset existing repo
         run: |
           git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/scala3/scala3
@@ -665,6 +665,8 @@ jobs:
       SONATYPE_USER: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_USER_ORGSCALALANG }}
 
     steps:
+      - name: Set JDK 8 as default
+        run: echo "/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
       - name: Reset existing repo
         run: |
           git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/scala3/scala3