prepare for 2.8 release (#562)

* prepare for 2.8 release

* fix NEWS links

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -21,16 +21,16 @@ project (nlopt)
 #==============================================================================
 # version
 set (NLOPT_MAJOR_VERSION "2")
-set (NLOPT_MINOR_VERSION "7")
-set (NLOPT_BUGFIX_VERSION "1")
+set (NLOPT_MINOR_VERSION "8")
+set (NLOPT_BUGFIX_VERSION "0")
 set (NLOPT_VERSION_STRING ${NLOPT_MAJOR_VERSION}.${NLOPT_MINOR_VERSION}.${NLOPT_BUGFIX_VERSION})
 message (STATUS "NLopt version ${NLOPT_VERSION_STRING}")
 
 # This is the ABI version number, which differes from the API version above
 # (it indicates ABI compatibility), but they are typically incremented together.
 set(SO_MAJOR 0)
-set(SO_MINOR 11)
-set(SO_PATCH 1)
+set(SO_MINOR 12)
+set(SO_PATCH 0)
 #==============================================================================
 
 list (APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake)

NEWS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 # NLopt Release Notes
 
+## NLopt 2.8
+
+9 August 2024
+
+* Support C++ functors for objective functions ([#457]).
+
+* CCSA/MMA an now use the `initial_step` parameter to bound their initial stepsize,
+  and also expose a new internal parameter `rho_init` ([#561]).
+
+* Install `pkg-config` file on Windows ([#534]).
+
+* Allow having more equality constraints than there are variables ([#509]).
+
+* Bugfixes to `nlopt_algorithm_name` ([#558]), Matlab `NLOPT_GN_AGS` ([#533]), forced stop for empty dimensions ([#473]), SLSQP ([#465]), and build improvements ([#551], [#535],[#510], [#445]…).
+
 ## NLopt 2.7.1
 
 3 December 2021
@@ -474,3 +489,15 @@
 [#365]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/365
 [#409]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/409
 [#420]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/420
+[#445]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/445
+[#457]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/457
+[#465]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/465
+[#473]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/473
+[#509]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/509
+[#510]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/510
+[#533]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/533
+[#534]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/534
+[#535]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/535
+[#551]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/551
+[#558]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/558
+[#561]: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/561