post release: elastic-otel-java v1.8.0 (#904)

Co-authored-by: obltmachine <[email protected]>

Author: elastic-observability-automation[bot]

CHANGELOG.next-release.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ This file contains all changes which are not released yet.
 <!--FIXES-END-->
 # Features and enhancements
 <!--ENHANCEMENTS-START-->
-* Enable indy delegation by default - [#899](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-java/pull/899)
+
 <!--ENHANCEMENTS-END-->
 # Deprecations
 <!--DEPRECATIONS-START-->
@@ -27,3 +27,12 @@ This file contains all changes which are not released yet.
 <!--DEPENDENCIES-NOTES-START-->
 
 <!--DEPENDENCIES-NOTES-END-->
+<!--DEPENDENCIES-NOTES-START-->
+This release is based on the following upstream versions:
+
+
+* opentelemetry-javaagent: [2.22.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/releases/tag/v2.22.0)
+* opentelemetry-sdk: [1.56.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/releases/tag/v1.56.0)
+* opentelemetry-semconv: [1.37.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions-java/releases/tag/v1.37.0)
+* opentelemetry-java-contrib: [1.52.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-contrib/releases/tag/v1.52.0)
+<!--DEPENDENCIES-NOTES-END-->

docs/release-notes/index.md

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 % ### Fixes [edot-java-X.X.X-fixes]
 % *
 
+## 1.8.0 [edot-java-1-8-0-release-notes]
+**Release date:** December 9, 2025
+
+### Features and enhancements [edot-java-1-8-0-features-enhancements]
+* Enable indy delegation by default - [#899](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-java/pull/899)
+
 ## 1.7.0 [edot-java-1-7-0-release-notes]
 **Release date:** November 5, 2025
 

version.properties

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-version=1.8.0
+version=1.8.1-SNAPSHOT