From 12b74e0d1b4f774512a5b8b44c82eb6a703de804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Larsen <clarsen@yahoo-inc.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 14:16:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Cut release 1.8.0

---
 Makefile |  2 +-
 NEWS     | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 THANKS   |  7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8a255e8b..55af1ae4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ proto_builddir := $(top_builddir)/protobuf
 spec_title := Asynchronous HBase Client
 spec_vendor := The Async HBase Authors
 # Semantic Versioning (see http://semver.org/).
-spec_version := 1.8.0-SNAPSHOT
+spec_version := 1.8.0
 jar := $(top_builddir)/asynchbase-$(spec_version).jar
 
 asynchbase_PROTOS := \
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 03180771..b2db83c7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@
 AsyncHBase - User visible and noteworthy changes.
 This project uses Semantic Versioning (see http://semver.org/).
 
+* Version 1.8.0 (2017-06-09)
+
+This is feature release with new APIs and behaviors.
+
+New Features:
+  - Support HBase 1.3.0 and later where scanner behavior changed.
+  - Add optional support for buffered AtomicIncrement calls to bypass the WAL
+    for quicker writes.
+  - Add an API for writing AtomicIncrements over multiple columns in a single
+    RPC.
+  - Add the MultipleColumnPrefixFilter.
+  - Add a "multi-get" API that allows for batching GetRequests and sending them
+    in a single request. Useful if the client wants to fetch a number of 
+    disparate rows when scanning would be less efficient.
+  - Support for reverse scanning
+
 * Version 1.7.3 (2017-06-09)
 
 This is a bug fix release.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index d17ce75d..60c50227 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ Abhay Bothra
 Andrey Stepachev
 Arthur van Hoff
 Berk D. Demir
+Bizhu Qiu
 Brandon Forehand
 Charles Antoine
+cm-cnnxty
 Francis Christopher Liu
 Gabe Benjamin
 Garry Helmling
@@ -19,8 +21,12 @@ Ivan Zhivkov
 James Baldassari
 Jason Culverhouse
 Jesse Chang
+Jiayun Fang
 Jonathan Payne
 Junegunn Choi
+Jungtaek Lim
+Karan Mehta
+Martin Boyanov
 Michael Rose
 Michael Stack
 Mikhail Antonov
@@ -33,6 +39,7 @@ Shrijeet Paliwal
 Siddartha Guthikonda
 Stephane Bagneris
 Svyatoslav Markeyev
+Tian-Ying Chang
 Viral Bajaria
 Xun Liu
 Yao Shengzhe