Bump version to 1.8.

documentation/source/conf.py

@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ copyright = u'2015, Adam Phillippy, Sergey Koren, Brian Walenz'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '1.7'
+version = '1.8'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.7'
+release = '1.8'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.

src/canu_version_update.pl

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ my $cwd = getcwd();
 
 my $label    = "snapshot";     #  Automagically set to 'release' for releases.
 my $major    = "1";            #  Bump before release.
-my $minor    = "7";            #  Bump before release.
+my $minor    = "8";            #  Bump before release.
 
 my $commits  = "0";
 my $hash1    = undef;          #  This from 'git describe'