From 79ca3093b54db0144de1cc853529d37664c20057 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vassil Vassilev <v.g.vassilev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:42:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare for release v1.8.

---
 VERSION              |  2 +-
 docs/ReleaseNotes.md | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index f21da21f5..625934097 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.8~dev
+1.8
diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.md b/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
index de0a3df6b..e4947a8fe 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
@@ -21,41 +21,63 @@ described first.
 External Dependencies
 ---------------------
 
-* Clad now works with clang-8 to clang-18
+* Clad works with clang-8 to clang-18
 
 
 Forward Mode & Reverse Mode
 ---------------------------
-*
+* Support `std::array`, `std::vector`,
 
 Forward Mode
 ------------
-*
+* Support `std::tie`, `std::atan2` and `std::acos`.
 
 Reverse Mode
 ------------
-*
+* Support `std::initializer_list` and `sizeof`.
+* Support pointer-valued functions
+* Support range-based for loops
 
 CUDA
 ----
-*
+* Add support of CUDA device pullbacks
+* Enable computation of CUDA global kernels derivative
 
-Error Estimation
-----------------
-*
 
 Misc
 ----
-*
+* Enable immediate evaluation mode (`consteval` and `constexpr`) with a new
+  clad mode `clad::immediate_mode`.
+* Make `clad::CladFunction` and `clad::array_ref` constexpr
+* Support operators defined outside of classes
+* Add Varied analysis to the reverse mode
+* Add support for `Kokkos::View`, `Kokkos::deep_copy`, Kokkos::resize,
+  `parallel_for`, in reverse mode.
+* Add support for `Kokkos::parallel_for`, `Kokkos::fence`, `Kokkos::View`,
+  `Kokkos::parallel_reduce`, in forward mode
+
 
 Fixed Bugs
 ----------
 
-[XXX](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/XXX)
-
- <!---Get release bugs. Check for close, fix, resolve
- git log v1.7..master | grep -i "close" | grep '#' | sed -E 's,.*\#([0-9]*).*,\[\1\]\(https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/\1\),g' | sort
- --->
+[472](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/472)
+[480](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/480)
+[527](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/527)
+[682](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/682)
+[684](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/684)
+[830](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/830)
+[855](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/855)
+[1000](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1000)
+[1019](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1019)
+[1033](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1033)
+[1049](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1049)
+[1057](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1057)
+[1070](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1070)
+[1071](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1071)
+[1081](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1081)
+[1087](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1087)
+[1151](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1151)
+[1162](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad/issues/1162)
 
 Special Kudos
 =============
@@ -67,6 +89,19 @@ FirstName LastName (#commits)
 
 A B (N)
 
-<!---Find contributor list for this release
- git log --pretty=format:"%an"  v1.7...master | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | sed -E 's,^ *([0-9]+) (.*)$,\2 \(\1\),'
---->
+petro.zarytskyi (30)
+Vassil Vassilev (22)
+Atell Krasnopolski (22)
+Christina Koutsou (17)
+Mihail Mihov (12)
+ovdiiuv (7)
+kchristin (6)
+Vipul Cariappa (3)
+Alexander Penev (3)
+mcbarton (1)
+infinite-void-16 (1)
+fsfod (1)
+Vaibhav Thakkar (1)
+Max Andriychuk (1)
+Infinite Void (1)
+Austeja (1)