2.8.0 / 2017-10-17

• Support LEIN_USE_BOOTCLASSPATH for users on Java 8. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Disable bytecode verification in Leiningen's own JVM for Java 9 compatibility. (Ghadi Shayban)
• Infer values for pom <scm> tag from .git directory. (Nicolas Berger)

• Add support for SDKMAN! as installation alternative. (Jean Niklas L'orange)
• Improved explanation in some errors. (Jean Niklas L'orange)
• Don't require nil for version in managed deps. (Chris Price)
• Fix a bug with snapshot dependencies for managed deps. (Chris Price)

• Add PowerShell script for Windows users. (Brian Lalonde)
• Run :prep-tasks before lein test, so generated test namespaces will be tested. (Martin Reck)
• Better error message when attempting to do lein run without project.clj. (Eduardo Seabra Silva)
• Add support for :managed-dependencies. (Chris Price)
• Provide the current clojars certificate. (Toby Crawley)
• Add *eval-print-dup* to evaluate forms passed to eval-in-leiningen with *print-dup*. (Eduardo Seabra Silva)
• Update bash completions. (Zack Dever)
• Respect :scm :dir in lein vcs commands. (Ian Kerins)
• Improve whitespace handling from JVM_OPTS. (Stephen Nelson)
• Catch and handle fixture errors during lein test. (Alex Hall)
• Fix a bug where spaces in directory names on Windows caused crashes. (Leon Mergen, Tobias Kiertscher, Jean Niklas L'orange)
• Fix a bug where lein search would take forever downloading clojars.org. (Paul Dorman)
• Retain user defined private repositories when building jars, uberjars and deploy. (Rick Moynihan)
• Honor whitelist settings when lein javac is called via lein jar. (Chris Price)
• lein vsc push for git will now only push branch-related tags. (Łukasz Klich)

• Fix a bug where some plugins crashed when used. (Jean Niklas L'orange)

• The templates, repl and Leiningen itself now uses Clojure 1.8.
• Support for Clojure 1.1.0 and older is now dropped.
• Warn if possibly stale native dependencies end up in :native-path. (Jean Niklas L'orange)
• Speed up restarts after :dependency changes. (Jean Niklas L'orange)
• lein release now supports SNAPSHOT on qualifiers. (Chris Price)
• Synchronise lein-pkg and lein scripts. (Thu Trang Pham)
• Decrease timeout for the Clojure compiler agent thread pool. (Ryan Fowler)
• Fix a bug where implicit resource directories were created by default. (Jean Niklas L'orange)
• Avoid optimizing away stack traces by default. (solicode)
• Fix a bug where duplicate profiles were merged when profile merging. (Jean Niklas L'orange)
• Improved GPG artifact signing feedback. (Jean Niklas L'orange, Andrea Richiardi)
• Add function to support binary files with lein-new. (Sergiy Bondaryev)
• Show better error message when java is not found on the path. (Pavel Prokopenko, Jürgen Hötzel)
• Fix a bug with non-GitHub SCM urls in pom files. (Ralf Schmitt)
• Don't send aot warning if :aot contains regex matching the main namespace. (Emlyn Corrin)

• Add CHANGELOG.md to default lein templates. (Daniel Compton)
• lein vcs tag now supports the --no-sign flag. (Daniel Compton)
• Fix a bug where javac errors were not printed to terminal. (Brandon Shimanek)
• Fix a bug where environment variables were not propagated down to GPG. (Brandon Shimanek)
• lein retest now saves information on which tests that fail. (Shalaka Patil)

• Allow repl dependencies to be specified in default user profiles. (Jean Niklas L'orange)
• Fix a bug where transitive dependencies on tools.nrepl failed. (Jean Niklas L'orange)
• Fix a bug preventing custom certificates to work. (Jean Niklas L'orange)
• Add support for reader conditional files. (Stephen Nelson)
• Add --template-version flag to lein new. (Ohta Shogo)
• Bail immediately if snapshot dependencies are discovered during uberjaring. (Justin Smith)
• Use powershell by default in lein.bat. (Frederick Giasson, Florian Anderiasch)
• Fix bug where manifest files could contain duplicate entries. (Michael Blume)
• Allow template designers to use a custom rendering function. (Dmitri Sotnikov)
• Fix a bug where :uberjar-name wasn't used when inside the :uberjar profile. (Kyle Harrington)

• No longer skip certificate checking when upgrading on Windows. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Fix password prompt for Cygwin users. (Carsten Behring)
• Fix a bug where lein pom did not add the project's SCM URL to pom.xml. (Fredrick Giasson)
• lein clean now cleans up all profile targets. (Jeb Beich, Jim Crossley)
• The order included profiles are merged in is now retained. (Jim Crossley)
• Fix a bug preventing update-in to use functions not yet required. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Allow multiple :repl profiles. (Hugo Duncan)
• Fix an infinite recursion bug with aliases and with-profile. (Hugo Duncan)
• Add flexibility in jar manifest declarations. (Fabio Tudone)
• Fix a bug preventing extra profiles from being included in jars. (Hugo Duncan)
• Fix a bug in self-install on Windows. (Sindunata Sudarmaji)