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 ## Unreleased
 
 ### Schema Changes
+### Tooling and Artifact Changes
 
 #### Breaking changes
 
 #### Bugfixes
 
+#### Added
+
+#### Improvements
+
+#### Deprecated
+
+
+## 1.8.0 (Feature Freeze)
+
+### Schema Changes
+
+#### Bugfixes
+
 * Clean up `event.reference` description. #1181
 
 #### Added
@@ -27,7 +41,9 @@ Thanks, you're awesome :-) -->
 #### Improvements
 
 * Event categorization fields GA. #1067
+* `wildcard` field type adoption. #1098
 * Note `[` and `]` bracket characters may enclose a literal IPv6 address when populating `url.domain`. #1131
+* Reinforce the exclusion of the leading dot from `url.extension`. #1151
 
 #### Deprecated
 
@@ -35,8 +51,6 @@ Thanks, you're awesome :-) -->
 
 ### Tooling and Artifact Changes
 
-#### Breaking changes
-
 #### Bugfixes
 
 * `tracing` fields should be at root of Beats `fields.ecs.yml` artifacts. #1164
@@ -49,17 +63,16 @@ Thanks, you're awesome :-) -->
 * Added support in the generated Go source go for `wildcard`, `version`, and `constant_keyword` data types. #1050
 * Added support for marking fields, field sets, or field reuse as beta in the documentation. #1051
 * Added support for `constant_keyword`'s optional parameter `value`. #1112
-* Added component templates for ECS field sets. #1156, #1186
+* Added component templates for ECS field sets. #1156, #1186, #1191
 
 #### Improvements
 
+* Make all fields linkable directly. #1148
 * Added a notice highlighting that the `tracing` fields are not nested under the
   namespace `tracing.` #1162
 * ES 6.x template data types will fallback to supported types. #1171, #1176, #1186
 * Add a documentation page discussing the experimental artifacts. #1189
 
-#### Deprecated
-
 
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