8.0.0-beta.1 (2026-04-03)

• feat!: drop Python 3.7 and 3.8 support (85567db)

Bug Fixes

• add AAA test sections and update docformatter config (7d959ac)
• address PR comments (ce3cef9)
• drop Python 3.7/3.8 support and fix Splunk Python path detection in CI (8ee9ffc)
• fix OTLP exporter happy-path test (02dd919)
• install local solnlib in integration tests instead of PyPI version (32ba4a7)
• update copyright year, remove typing_extensions, drop observability from init (c685f3e)
• update poetry to 2.1.2 (d12515a)
• use regex pattern in .licenserc.yaml to allow any copyright year (dbb307e)

Features

• add ObservabilityService (f7ec4fb)
• retrying HTTP calls on errors (#440) (413c3a0)

BREAKING CHANGES

• Python 3.7 and 3.8 are no longer supported.
  Minimum required Python version is now 3.9.