Merge pull request #821 from bashtage/rls-8

RLS: Release for V8

Author: bashtage

doc/requirements.txt

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-setuptools>=61
 wheel
-setuptools_scm[toml]>=8.0.3,<9
-oldest-supported-numpy
-cython>=0.29.34  # Works with 3.0.0b2
-numpy >=1.22
-scipy >=1.5.0
+meson-python
+ninja
+setuptools_scm[toml]>=9.2,<10
+cython>=3.1.0
+numpy >=2
+scipy >=1.15.0
 ipython >=8.0.1
-matplotlib >=3.0
-pandas >=1.1.0
-patsy >=0.5.3
-statsmodels >=0.13.5
+matplotlib >=3.9
+pandas >=2.3.0
+statsmodels >=0.14.5
 jinja2
 sphinx
 seaborn

doc/source/changes.rst

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 Change Logs
 -----------
 
+.. include:: changes/8.0.rst
 .. include:: changes/7.0.rst
 
 =============

doc/source/changes/8.0.rst

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+=========
+Version 8
+=========
+
+Release 8.0
+===========
+- Moved to Meson build system from setuptools.
+- Minimum required Python is now 3.10.
+- Improved compatability with future NumPy and pandas, including pandas 3.
+- Many small documentation fixes.
+- Improved typing accuracy across the codebase.
+
+