This release makes console.sol work with solc 0.8.x, but this comes with a small breaking change: the console.logByte function doesn't exist anymore, since the byte type was removed. If you run into this issue, you just need to replace all your calls to logByte with logBytes1.
Besides that, this release adds support for hardhat-shorthand, a new tool we just released. It's an NPM package that installs a globally accessible binary called hh that runs the project's locally installed hardhat and supports shell autocompletion for tasks. Check the guide to learn more.