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[ci] Require CMake 3.28 and replace `FetchContent_Populate` with `FetchContent_MakeAvailable` (#6550)

* Replace `FetchContent_Populate` with `FetchContent_MakeAvailable`

* Test with VS 2022

* Update IntegratedOpenCL.cmake

* Update IntegratedOpenCL.cmake

* Update IntegratedOpenCL.cmake

* Update IntegratedOpenCL.cmake

* Update IntegratedOpenCL.cmake

* Update .vsts-ci.yml

* bump minimum CMake version

* force symlinking

* fix line length

* install curl

* install sudo

* install certs

* install CMake for R Windows jobs

* debug cmake

* new try

* remove CMake from RTools

* cleanup

* remove duplicted curl installation

* CMake version as variable

[python-package] Correctly recognize LGBMClassifier(num_class=2, objective="multiclass") as multiclass classification (#6524)

* Update README.rst

* Update README.rst

* [docs] update and simplify installation docs

* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>

* remove more references to CMake and GLIBC versions

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Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>

[python-package] Add `feature_names_in_` attribute for scikit-learn estimators (fixes #6279) (#6310)

[python-package] Add support for NumPy 2.0, test against nightly versions of dependencies (fixes #6454) (#6467)

[python-package] remove uses of deprecated NumPy random number generation APIs, require 'numpy>=1.17.0' (#6468)

* [python-package] Allow to pass early stopping min delta in params

* Fix test

* Add separate test

* Fix

* Add to cpp config

* Adjust test

* Adjust test

* Debug

* Revert

* Apply suggestions from code review

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Co-authored-by: James Lamb <jaylamb20@gmail.com>

[python-package] allow use of early_stopping_round<=0 to turn off early stopping (fixes #6401) (#6406)