Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/release'

* origin/release:
  Updated release notes for v0.8.1.
  Add pending release notes stub
  Update version number to 0.8.1

docs/release_notes.rst

@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ Release Notes
    release_notes/v0.6.1
    release_notes/v0.7.0
    release_notes/v0.8.0
+   release_notes/v0.8.1

docs/release_notes/pending_release.rst

@@ -4,19 +4,5 @@ Pending Release Notes
 Updates / New Features
 ----------------------
 
-CI/CD
-
-* Updated to use `checkout@v4` and `cache@v4` instead of `*@v2`.
-
 Fixes
 -----
-
-Dependencies
-
-* Fixed `numpy` dependency versions for downstream resolution.
-
-* Jupyter notebooks now installed with `notebook` instead of `jupyter`.
-
-* Increased the lower bound of `tqdm` to `4.66.3` to address `CVE-2024-34062`.
-
-* Ran `poetry update` to update `poetry.lock` for vulnerability scanning.

docs/release_notes/v0.8.1.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+v0.8.1
+======
+
+Addressed a few dependency vulnerabilities and updated the CI/CD to current versions.
+
+Updates / New Features
+----------------------
+
+CI/CD
+
+* Updated to use `checkout@v4` and `cache@v4` instead of `*@v2`.
+
+Fixes
+-----
+
+Dependencies
+
+* Fixed `numpy` dependency versions for downstream resolution.
+
+* Jupyter notebooks now installed with `notebook` instead of `jupyter`.
+
+* Increased the lower bound of `tqdm` to `4.66.3` to address `CVE-2024-34062`.
+
+* Ran `poetry update` to update `poetry.lock` for vulnerability scanning.

pyproject.toml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ name = "xaitk_saliency"
 # REMEMBER: `distutils.version.*Version` types can be used to compare versions
 # from strings like this.
 # This package prefers to use the strict numbering standard when possible.
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.8.1"
 description = """\
     Visual saliency map generation interfaces and baseline implementations \
     for explainable AI."""