Version bump for 2.8.0 rc1

Update NEWS file and version number.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <mtartara@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <ultrotter@google.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bc2a35f..8013f1b 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ News
 ====
 
 
-Version 2.8.0 beta2
--------------------
+Version 2.8.0 rc1
+-----------------
 
-*(unreleased)*
+*(Released Fri, 2 Aug 2013)*
 
 Incompatible/important changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 76b77d5..8133691 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 m4_define([gnt_version_major], [2])
 m4_define([gnt_version_minor], [8])
 m4_define([gnt_version_revision], [0])
-m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~beta1])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc1])
 m4_define([gnt_version_full],
           m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
                     gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,