Release PR 8.0.0 (#696)

Author: roverflow

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ Ansible Netcommon Collection Release Notes
 
 .. contents:: Topics
 
+v8.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+With this release, the minimum required version of `ansible-core` for this collection is `2.16.0`. The last version known to be compatible with `ansible-core` versions below `2.16` is v7.2.0.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.16.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.
+
 v7.2.0
 ======
 

changelogs/changelog.yaml

@@ -842,3 +842,15 @@ releases:
       - libssh_pubkey_algo.yml
       - update_bindep.yml
     release_date: "2025-03-27"
+  8.0.0:
+    changes:
+      major_changes:
+        - Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.16.0`, since previous ansible-core versions
+          are EoL now.
+      release_summary:
+        "With this release, the minimum required version of `ansible-core`
+        for this collection is `2.16.0`. The last version known to be compatible with
+        `ansible-core` versions below `2.16` is v7.2.0."
+    fragments:
+      - bump216.yml
+    release_date: "2025-04-11"

changelogs/fragments/bump216.yml

@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ readme: README.md
 repository: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon
 issues: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/issues
 tags: [networking, security, cloud, network_cli, netconf, httpapi, grpc]
-version: 7.2.0
+version: 8.0.0