[VOTE] Releasing Hipparchus 1.8 from release candidate 1

This is a VOTE in order to release version 1.8 of the Hipparchus library.
Version 1.8 is a maintenance release.

Highlights in the 1.8 release are:

  • Fixed LU-decomposition issue with signed zero complex numbers on diagonal.
  • Fixed complex eigendecomposition when several eigenvalues are equals.
  • Added sum and difference of angles in SinCos and FieldSinCos.
  • Removed spurious reduction of BigFraction in equality test.

The release candidate 1 can be found on the GitHub repository as tag 1.8-RC1 in the release-1.8 branch.

Source and binary archives are available using the staged web site downloads page at https://hipparchus.org/staging/downloads.html

Note that the index page at /downloads does not show the 1.8 release, as it has not been voted yet.

The release notes can be read here: https://hipparchus.org/staging/changes-report.html

Maven artifacts are available at https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/orghipparchus-1030/

In order to give more time than usual to potential voters, the votes will be tallied in two weeks from now, on 2020-12-05.

+1 for RC-1.

My own +1 for the release.

+1 from me.

+1 for the release

+1
yes
Phil

This vote passes, with votes from Axel, Hank, Otmar, Phil, Stéphanie, Suslov46, Bryan, Pascal, Maxime, Amir and myself (some directly on the thread, some on the voting widget next to the title).

I will proceed with the release.