Release Version 8.0.0

[domire8]

Description

Release time!

@eeberhard if you want to make changes to the Contributing, Readme, etc, feel free to do this here.

The commits between version 7.2.0 and 7.3.0 show up because I made a mistake in the 7.3.0 release I think (squash and merge instead of merge commit or similar...)

Review guidelines

Estimated Time of Review: 10 minutes

Checklist before merging:

• Confirm that the relevant changelog(s) are up-to-date in case of any user-facing changes

[domire8]

It's all been tested here and the CI seems to do what we'd expect: https://github.com/domire8/control-libraries

[bpapaspyros]

Looks great !

[yrh012]

Amazing!

[eeberhard]

🚂 🔥

Changelogs and readmes look great, thanks for the work to rewrite those alongside all of the other refactor work here.

Since we are closing develop branch now, you could also have made this release PR (which updates changelogs and versions) on develop, and then merge develop into main to officially close it. But I suppose since we are deleting develop anyway then it doesn't matter if it ends up being one commit behind!

So, LGTM, you can ship it 👍

[domire8]

@LouisBrunner Will your changes to the build system (dependency management) potentially require a new major version for control libraries? If that's the case I wonder if this PR should wait even a bit more

[LouisBrunner]

@LouisBrunner Will your changes to the build system (dependency management) potentially require a new major version for control libraries? If that's the case I wonder if this PR should wait even a bit more

Potentially. We haven't touched on that yet. I don't know if we want all the packages to be bumped one major version or if we are happy with a minor bump. Technically, it doesn't break the existing package so I would argue a minor bump would be enough.

[eeberhard]

🚂 🔥

Thanks for taking your time with this release to consider the downstream impact. As far as I can tell, v8 is good to go now!