[ANNOUNCE] Apache Kyuubi released 1.8.0

[Cheng Pan <ch...@apache.org>]

Hi all,

The Apache Kyuubi community is pleased to announce that
Apache Kyuubi 1.8.0 has been released!

Apache Kyuubi is a distributed and multi-tenant gateway to provide
serverless SQL on data warehouses and lakehouses.

Kyuubi provides a pure SQL gateway through Thrift JDBC/ODBC interface
for end-users to manipulate large-scale data with pre-programmed and
extensible Spark SQL engines.

We are aiming to make Kyuubi an "out-of-the-box" tool for data warehouses
and lakehouses.

This "out-of-the-box" model minimizes the barriers and costs for end-users
to use Spark, Flink, and other computing engines at the client side.

At the server-side, Kyuubi server and engine's multi-tenant architecture
provides the administrators a way to achieve computing resource isolation,
data security, high availability, high client concurrency, etc.

The full release notes and download links are available at:
Release Notes: https://kyuubi.apache.org/release/1.8.0.html

To learn more about Apache Kyuubi, please see
https://kyuubi.apache.org/

Kyuubi Resources:
- Issue: https://github.com/apache/kyuubi/issues
- Mailing list: dev@kyuubi.apache.org

We would like to thank all contributors of the Kyuubi community
who made this release possible!

Thanks,
On behalf of Apache Kyuubi community