astropy v8.0.0 feature freeze on 1 May 2026

[Thomas Robitaille]

Hi all,

The feature freeze for v8.0.0 of the core package will be on 1 May 2026.

There are currently over 100 open pull requests milestoned for v8.0.0, so please try and wrap up any open pull requests if possible, or re-milestone to v8.1.0 if you are pretty sure you won't manage to wrap up a pull request in time.

Thanks!

Tom