v8.0.0-M1

What's Changed

🛠 Improvements

• daa66b9 Add release notes for 8.0.0-M1
• ca19c55 Update README
• 801f852 Update events guides
• d757ecc Update doc.properties - switch to 8.0.x branch
• fc9f916 Gradle: Enable Configuration Cache #69

🐞 Bug Fixes

• f76638e Gradle: Avoid implicit property lookup in parent projects

🚀 Dependency Upgrades

• bee5b9b Upgrade to Grace Data 2025.0.0-M1 #59
• 7d10792 Upgrade to Gradle 9.8.1 #64
• 1e41bb7 Upgrade to Groovy 5.0.8 #60
• c51e394 Upgrade to Jakarta Annotation 3.0.0 #68
• 693de42 Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 6.0.3 #65
• dbf7c64 Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.9 #62
• 4a3f6ff Use Spock 2.4-groovy-5.0 to support Groovy 5 #61

⚙️ Tasks

• e8592aa Release v8.0.0-M1
• e3fed7a Upgrade Java version in sdkmanrc to 17.0.20-zulu #67
• fb8abc9 Upgrade to gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v6.4.0 #58
• 3bc3585 Upgrade to actions/setup-java@v6 #57
• cc6fc8a Upgrade to actions/checkout@v7 #56
• 51f1e3a Update GitHub workflows - Switch to '8.0.x'
• 64a073f Bump version: 8.0.0-SNAPSHOT

Full Changelog: v7.2.0-RC1...v8.0.0-M1