Merge pull request #4293 from boegel/eb480

prepare release notes for EasyBuild v4.8.0 + bump version to 4.8.0

Author: boegel

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -4,6 +4,22 @@ For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 These release notes can also be consulted at https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
 
 
+v4.8.0 (7 July 2023)
+--------------------
+
+feature release
+
+- various enhancements, including:
+  - use version suffixes in PR title instead of Python versions when using --new-pr (#4253 + #4286)
+  - add script to find updated ECs for installed module (#4271)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - fix regex for extracting glibc version from output of '`ldd --version`' in Gentoo Linux (#4290)
+  - allow versionsuffix to be set to None in `det_full_ec_version` (#4292)
+- other changes:
+  - stop running tests with Python 2.7 since it is no longer supported in GitHub Action (#4267)
+  - replace imp.load_source by leveraging importlib.util.module_from_spec when using Python 3 (#4280)
+
+
 v4.7.2 (27 May 2023)
 --------------------
 

easybuild/tools/version.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 # recent setuptools versions will *TRANSFORM* something like 'X.Y.Zdev' into 'X.Y.Z.dev0', with a warning like
 #   UserWarning: Normalizing '2.4.0dev' to '2.4.0.dev0'
 # This causes problems further up the dependency chain...
-VERSION = LooseVersion('4.7.3.dev0')
+VERSION = LooseVersion('4.8.0')
 UNKNOWN = 'UNKNOWN'