From 8f9663a4f0e558a9965c01a8201fd7ecadb4eaed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Pulman <chris.pulman@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 03:03:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare For Release of V8.0.0 (#1898)

---
 README.md    | 8 +++++++-
 version.json | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd868ab4e..2ff04d8af 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -83,12 +83,18 @@ Refit currently supports the following platforms and any .NET Standard 2.0 targe
 * Xamarin.Mac
 * Xamarin.iOS
 * Desktop .NET 4.6.1
-* .NET 5 / .NET Core
+* .NET 6 / 8
 * Blazor
 * Uno Platform
 
 ### SDK Requirements
 
+### Updates in 8.0.x
+Fixes for some issues experianced, this lead to some breaking changes
+See [Releases](https://github.com/reactiveui/refit/releases) for full details.
+
+### V6.x.x
+
 Refit 6 requires Visual Studio 16.8 or higher, or the .NET SDK 5.0.100 or higher. It can target any .NET Standard 2.0 platform.
 
 Refit 6 does not support the old `packages.config` format for NuGet references (as they do not support analyzers/source generators). You must
diff --git a/version.json b/version.json
index 7202c62d0..3ecd3eb78 100644
--- a/version.json
+++ b/version.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "version": "7.3.0",
+  "version": "8.0.0",
   "publicReleaseRefSpec": [
     "^refs/heads/main$", // we release out of main
     "^refs/heads/rel/v\\d+\\.\\d+" // we also release branches starting with vN.N