NEWS: Addressing reviewers comments

* Minor text fixes
* configure.ac version updated to 1.8.1

Signed-off-by: Pavel Shamis (Pasha) <pasharesearch@gmail.com>

Author: shamisp

NEWS

@@ -8,11 +8,14 @@
 #
 
 ## 1.8.1-RC1 (June 23, 2020)
+### Features:
+- Added binary release pipeline in Azure CI
+
 ### Bugfixes:
-- Multiple fixes in testing environment and Azure CI
+- Multiple fixes in testing environment
 - Fixes in InfiniBand DEVX transport
 - Fixes in memory management for CUDA IPC transport
-- Fixes for  binutils 2.34+
+- Fixes for binutils 2.34+
 - Fixes in RPM SPEC file and package generation
 - Fixes for AMD ROCM build environment
 

configure.ac

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ AC_PREREQ([2.63])
 
 define([ucx_ver_major], 1)
 define([ucx_ver_minor], 8)
-define([ucx_ver_patch], 0)
+define([ucx_ver_patch], 1)
 define([ts], esyscmd([sh -c "date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S"]))
 
 # This is the API version (see libtool library versioning)