chore(main): release 8.0.0

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8.0.0 (2026-01-19)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• deprecate deprecated-statement rule and split into deprecated-return-setting (#1639)
• Drop support for Python 3.9 and Robot Framework 4.* (#1619)
• Add fixable rules (#1617)w
• Refactor source files handling with common SourceFile class (#1615)

Features

• Add different kind of TextEdit for convenience (#1641) (95bd99f)
• Add fix to deprecate-return-setting rule (#1642) (113c011)
• Add fixable rules (#1617)w (128c849)
• add performance tests to benchmark Robocop on release (#1611) (eea1c56)
• deprecate deprecated-statement rule and split into deprecated-return-setting (#1639) (2f9010a)
• do not print diagnostic messages in diff mode, only file changes (#1625) (41f4ff0)
• Drop support for Python 3.9 and Robot Framework 4.* (#1619) (2e73142)
• Filter fixable rules with --fixable and --unfixable (#1620) (ed91630)
• Fix rule where it is being report (#1630) (443d59b)
• list rules can now return result programatically (#1629) (457d135)
• refactor source file handling (#1613) (0e7f04e)
• split deprecated-statement to deprecated-force-tags and add fix for it (#1622) (0316605)
• split deprecated-statement to deprecated-loop-keyword rule (#1637) (9342c67)
• split deprecated-statement to deprecated-return-keyword (#1638) (a0fcd14)
• split deprecated-statement to deprecated-run-keyword-if rule (#1632) (a974abd)

Bug Fixes

• Fix caching the issues with fixes (#1623) (256874b)
• Fix not all issue format parameters supported by extended output (#1624) (727c38d)
• multiple paths passed to robocop check/format command resolving to the same config (#1614) (bdcfd48)

Documentation

• Fix rst-style urls in the documentation (#1640) (eb1dcab)

Refactoring

• Refactor source files handling with common SourceFile class (#1615) (25d30da)

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[mikeleppane]

Suggestion: I recently built a Python-based tool for automated release management for Python applications, inspired by release-plz: https://mikeleppane.github.io/releasio/. Please take a look at it, and if you find it useful, feel free to use it. :)

[bhirsz]

Suggestion: I recently built a Python-based tool for automated release management for Python applications, inspired by release-plz: https://mikeleppane.github.io/releasio/. Please take a look at it, and if you find it useful, feel free to use it. :)

I will take a look. I am actually 'fighting' a bit with release please recently so it may be helpfull. There are some minor quirks - for example the Github Action used does not trigger some of the Github event, so our jobs like performance tests did not trigger. Also our publisj job does not trigger after creating release. For that reason I need to redesign our workflows a bit, so it may be worth looking into to have more control over this :)