Release v2.8.0

Author: drvinceknight

CHANGES.md

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+# v2.8.0, 2017-04-02
+
+Source code cleanup, test refactor, new strategies and improved `__repr__` of
+strategies
+
+- Improved/refactored source code:
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/917
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/952
+- Internal improvement: remove the `init_args` decorator as superseded by the
+  `kward_args`:
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/918
+- Strategy `__repr__` now automatically includes all parameters of a strategy:
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/953
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/922
+- Type hints:
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/883
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/935
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/949
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/951
+- Refactor of tests:
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/924
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/927
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/928
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/933
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/934
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/937
+- New strategy: `SlowTitForTwoTats2`
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/926
+- New strategy: `GeneralSoftGrudger`
+  https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/pull/936
+
+Here are all the commits for this PR:
+https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod/compare/v2.7.0...v2.8.0
+
 # v2.7.0, 2017-03-17
 
 New strategies, increased test coverage, refactor of some tests, documentation

axelrod/version.py

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-__version__ = "2.7.0"
+__version__ = "2.8.0"