[ANNOUNCE] vere-v2.8

[Pyry Kovanen]

The previous release vere-v2.7 introduced a regression presenting as a significant disk read increase when swapping. This issue was caused by a flag meant only for development builds being set in the release build, causing every snapshot write to do an overly paranoid check on snapshot integrity.

We have now released vere-v2.8 to fix the issue.

What's Changed

• Merge master back to develop after vere-v2.7 by @pkova in #418
• Update VERSION to 2.8 by @pkova in #419
• Reduce size of linux-aarch64 BuildJet VM by @matthew-levan in #416
• ci: chown /usr/local on our linux-aarch64 runner by @matthew-levan in #426
• ci: separate chown calls to fix buildjet jobs (linux-aarch64) by @matthew-levan in #430
• make U3_SNAPSHOT_VALIDATION a bazel build flag by @belisarius222 in #431
• events.h: fix u3t_trace_open() prototype to remove build warning by @belisarius222 in #434
• add --no-demand to --help by @barter-simsum in #433
• Release vere-v2.8 to soon by @pkova in #435
• Release vere-v2.8 to live by @pkova in #436

Full Changelog: vere-v2.7...vere-v2.8