Crystal 1.8.0 released!

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Crystal 1.8.0 has been released.

Language

• The compiler uses PCRE2 to validate regex literals (#13084, thanks @straight-shoota)
• Fill docs for TupleLiteral (#12927, thanks @straight-shoota)
• Allow namespaced Paths as type names for lib (#12903, thanks @HertzDevil)

Standard Library

• Fix SyntaxHighlighter::HTML to escape identifier values (#13212, thanks @straight-shoota)
• Add workaround for Value#not_nil! copying the receiver (#13264, thanks @HertzDevil)
• Fix Pointer#copy_to overflow on unsigned size and different target type (#13269, thanks @HertzDevil)
• Docs: Added note about imports where necessary (#13026, [#13066…

Link: Release 1.8.0 · crystal-lang/crystal · GitHub