8.0.0 released!

yes, it’s been done! chat patches has been in alpha for a year and the better part of another? all because i finally impl’d the omnivers-stonecutter buildscript and additionally wanted more large-scale changes (test suite, neoforge support, DFU migration codec) ((of which are still planned… eventually!!)) … but then i just never took it off. well, you can’t wait around forever.

also, this update is perfect for releasing as a whopping TEN issue reports were closed upon release, with countless others fixed soundlessly! credit where it’s due, there was a fair amount of community support via PRs for this release, but that doesn’t take away from the benefit we as a community experience from it being added!

while we’re out here celebrating these crushed bugs, new features, and the return to release-channel versions, i think it’s safe to say chat patches is worthy of shipping too!

i hope you’ve enjoyed using chat patches and it’s bettered your minecraft experience - and if you haven’t used it, i hope you’ll give it a try and let me know what you think. thanks again to everyone who contributed and cheers to even more fixes and features in the future! 🎉🥳💃🎈