v3.8.0 release

Author: njroussel

README.md

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ When using Mitsuba 3 in academic projects, please cite:
     title = {Mitsuba 3 renderer},
     author = {Wenzel Jakob and Sébastien Speierer and Nicolas Roussel and Merlin Nimier-David and Delio Vicini and Tizian Zeltner and Baptiste Nicolet and Miguel Crespo and Vincent Leroy and Ziyi Zhang},
     note = {https://mitsuba-renderer.org},
-    version = {3.7.1},
+    version = {3.8.0},
     year = 2022
 }
 ```

docs/generated/extracted_rst_api.rst

@@ -3831,7 +3831,7 @@
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.DEBUG
     :type: bool
-    :value: True
+    :value: False
 
 .. py:class:: mitsuba.DefaultFormatter
 
@@ -6880,19 +6880,19 @@
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.MI_VERSION
     :type: str
-    :value: 3.7.1
+    :value: 3.8.0
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.MI_VERSION_MAJOR
     :type: int
     :value: 3
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.MI_VERSION_MINOR
     :type: int
-    :value: 7
+    :value: 8
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.MI_VERSION_PATCH
     :type: int
-    :value: 1
+    :value: 0
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.MI_YEAR
     :type: str

docs/index.rst

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ When using Mitsuba 3 in academic projects, please cite:
         title = {Mitsuba 3 renderer},
         author = {Wenzel Jakob and Sébastien Speierer and Nicolas Roussel and Merlin Nimier-David and Delio Vicini and Tizian Zeltner and Baptiste Nicolet and Miguel Crespo and Vincent Leroy and Ziyi Zhang},
         note = {https://mitsuba-renderer.org},
-        version = {3.0.1},
+        version = {3.8.0},
         year = 2022,
     }
 

docs/release_notes.rst

@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ Being an experimental research framework, Mitsuba 3 does not strictly follow the
 `Semantic Versioning <https://semver.org/>`__ convention. That said, we will
 strive to document breaking API changes in the release notes below.
 
-Upcoming changes
-----------------
+Mitsuba 3.8.0
+-------------
+*February 23, 2026*
 
 - Upgrade Dr.Jit to version `1.3.1
   <https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/drjit/releases/tag/v1.3.1>`__. This

include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #define MI_VERSION_MAJOR 3
-#define MI_VERSION_MINOR 7
-#define MI_VERSION_PATCH 1
+#define MI_VERSION_MINOR 8
+#define MI_VERSION_PATCH 0
 
 #define MI_STRINGIFY(x) #x
 #define MI_TOSTRING(x)  MI_STRINGIFY(x)