From 124abb6c4da5da871da3f7090ea0b7aba6f5d844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:34:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Release version 0.8.

---
 NEWS         | 12 ++++++++++++
 configure.ac |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 64c8fab..cd9138e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
 
+Version 0.8 - March 21, 2011
+
+- Support long polling: http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php
+
+- Adjust max workload based on scantime (default 5 seconds,
+  or 60 seconds for longpoll)
+
+- Standardize program output, and support syslog on Unix platforms
+
+- Suport --user/--pass options (and "user" and "pass" in config file),
+  as an alternative to the current --userpass
+
 Version 0.7.2 - March 14, 2011
 
 - Add port of ufasoft's sse2 assembly implementation (Linux only)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e3d9df1..0271eb3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([cpuminer], [0.7.2])
+AC_INIT([cpuminer], [0.8])
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.52)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([cpu-miner.c])