Ionic Changelog (#678)

* Set VERSION_SUFFIX to pre1

Signed-off-by: Steve Peters <scpeters@openrobotics.org>

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ find_package(gz-cmake4 REQUIRED)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
 
-gz_configure_project(VERSION_SUFFIX)
+gz_configure_project(VERSION_SUFFIX pre1)
 
 #============================================================================
 # Set project-specific options

Changelog.md

@@ -1,6 +1,59 @@
 ## Gazebo Physics 8.x
 
-### Gazebo Physics 8.0.0 (2023-XX-XX)
+### Gazebo Physics 8.0.0 (2024-09-XX)
+
+1. **Baseline:** this includes all changes from 7.3.0 and earlier.
+
+1. Remove deprecated functions
+    * [Pull request #673](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/673)
+
+1. Enable 24.04 CI, require cmake 3.22.1
+    * [Pull request #671](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/671)
+
+1. bullet-featherstone: Support empty links
+    * [Pull request #665](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/665)
+
+1. Fix CTAD compile warnings
+    * [Pull request #663](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/663)
+
+1. bullet-featherstone: Enforce joint velocity and effort limits for velocity control commands
+    * [Pull request #658](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/658)
+
+1. Add Cone as a collision shape
+    * [Pull request #639](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/639)
+
+1. dartsim: optimize picking contact points with ODE collision detector
+    * [Pull request #584](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/584)
+
+1. Add no gravity link support
+    * [Pull request #633](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/633)
+
+1. bullet-featherstone: Support convex decomposition for meshes
+    * [Pull request #606](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/606)
+
+1. Find python directly instead of using GzPython
+    * [Pull request #625](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/625)
+
+1. Fix unused variable warning
+    * [Pull request #624](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/624)
+
+1. Support setting solver iterations
+    * [Pull request #609](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/609)
+
+1. Define `GZ_PHYSICS_VERSION_NAMESPACE` in config.hh
+    * [Pull request #597](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/597)
+
+1. Remove `HIDE_SYMBOLS_BY_DEFAULT`: replace by a default configuration in gz-cmake.
+    * [Pull request #588](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/588)
+
+1. Use `HIDE_SYMBOLS_BY_DEFAULT`
+    * [Pull request #576](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/576)
+
+1. Bump dependency versions: gz-cmake4, gz-common6, gz-math8, gz-plugin3, gz-utils3, sdformat15
+    * [Pull request #561](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/561)
+
+1. Bump major version to 8
+    * [Pull request #560](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-physics/pull/560)
 
 ## Gazebo Physics 7.x