update NEWS, JL1.8, and CI

Author: dehann

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         version:
-          - '1.6'
           - '1.8'
           - '~1.9.0-0'
           - 'nightly'

NEWS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 Listing news on any major breaking changes in DFG.  For regular changes, see integrated Github.com project milestones for DFG.
 
+# v0.20
+
+- Close long running serialization redo (#590) using only JSON3.jl and StructTypes.jl going forward.
+- Standardize BlobEntry=>Blob naming of functions, and keeping convenience wrappers `{get,add,update,delete}Data[!]`.
+- Include type field `VariableNodeData.covar`.
+- Drop minimum Julia compat to 1.8.
+
 # v0.19
 
 - Add ids and metadata to data types.

Project.toml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Requires = "1"
 StructTypes = "1"
 TensorCast = "0.3.3, 0.4"
 TimeZones = "1.3.1"
-julia = "1.6"
+julia = "1.8"
 
 [extras]
 DataStructures = "864edb3b-99cc-5e75-8d2d-829cb0a9cfe8"