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+### enhancements
+
+- Adds back git tag support. #267 by @foxmk
+- Adds `-d some-directory/template` option for templates in a subdirectory. #269 by @lachatak
+- Adds support to configure Maven repository location using file `$G8_HOME/mvnrepo`. #271 by @konopski
+- Adds optional `baseDirectory` parameter to `run`. #278 by @cunei
+- Adds support to look for only the stable version from Maven Central e.g. `maven(org.scalatest, scalatest_2.12, stable)`. #275 by @ssanj
+
+### improvements and fixes
+
+- Refactoring work by @foxmk and @xuwei-k
+- Fixes Giter8 not picking up GitHub default branch. #263 by @foxmk
+- Restores `-f` flag. #277 by @foxmk
+
+### notes
+
+Special thanks to the contributors for making this release a success. According to `git shortlog -sn --no-merges v0.7.2..0.8.x`, compared to 0.7.2, there were 66 (non-merge) commits, by seven contributors: Artyom Artemyev, Kenji Yoshida, Sanjiv Sahayam, Antonio Cunei, Krisztian Lachata, Eugene Yokota, and Lukasz Konopski. Thank you!
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+0.9.0 rolls back refactoring changes that went into 0.8.0 since it introduced many regressions.
+
+### improvements
+
+- Clone from GitHub defaults to HTTPS instead of `git://`. #313 by @eed3si9n
+
+### fixes
+
+- Fixes escaped `$` in properties not getting respected. #288
+- Fixes `g8Test` not having effect in sbt-giter8 0.8.0. #292
+- Fixes built-in properties like `verbatim` not getting filtered out from prompt. #299
+- Fixes order of parameters is not preserved in 0.8.0. #298