[ANNOUNCE] Apache Tuweni 0.8.0

[Antoine Toulme <an...@toulme.name>]

The Apache Tuweni team is proud to announce the release of Apache Tuweni
(incubating) 0.8.0.

Apache Tuweni is a set of libraries and other tools to aid development of
 blockchain and other decentralized software in Java and other JVM 
 languages. It includes a low-level bytes library, serialization and 
 deserialization codecs (e.g. RLP), various cryptography functions 
 and primatives, and lots of other helpful utilities. Tuweni is 
 developed for JDK 1.8 or higher, and depends on various other FOSS libraries.

Apache Tuweni 0.8.0-incubating is our first release under the Apache incubator.
Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from:
https://tuweni.apache.org/download

Release notes are at:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-tuweni/releases/tag/v0.8.0

A big thank you to all the contributors in this milestone release!

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Disclaimer: Apache Tuweni is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache
Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator. Incubation is
required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates
that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have
stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While
incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or
stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be
fully endorsed by the ASF.

Please note the source distribution of Apache Tuweni contains a binary file, 
the Gradle wrapper jar file. This file will be removed in the next release.