chore: Release Fractal 8.rc

Cargo.lock

@@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fractal"
-version = "8.0.0-beta"
+version = "8.0.0-rc"
 dependencies = [
  "ashpd",
  "djb_hash",

Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "fractal"
-version = "8.0.0-beta"
+version = "8.0.0-rc"
 authors = ["Julian Sparber <julian@sparber.net>"]
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.76"

README.md

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ You can get the official Fractal Flatpak from Flathub.
 
 ### Beta version
 
-The current beta version is 8.beta (released July 3rd 2024).
+The current beta version is 8.rc (released July 18th 2024).
 
 It is available as a Flatpak on Flathub Beta.
 

data/org.gnome.Fractal.metainfo.xml.in.in

@@ -71,6 +71,43 @@
   </content_rating>
 
   <releases>@development-release@
+    <release version="8~rc" type="development" date="2024-07-18">
+      <description>
+        <p>
+          Did you miss us? Only two weeks after our beta release, we are ready to release Fractal
+          8.rc.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Here are the main goodies since Fractal 8.beta:
+        </p>
+        <ul>
+          <li>
+            Draft messages are persisted in the database, allowing to restore them after a restart
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            A banner appears when synchronization with the homeserver fails too many times in a row
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            Links in room descriptions are detected in most places
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            Collapsed categories in the sidebar are remembered between restarts, with the
+            “Historical” category collapsed by default
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            The history media viewers show properly when they are loading or empty
+          </li>
+        </ul>
+        <p>
+          As usual, this release includes other improvements, fixes and new translations thanks to
+          all our contributors, and our upstream projects.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          As the version implies, it should be mostly stable and we expect to only include minor
+          improvements until the release of Fractal 8.
+        </p>
+      </description>
+    </release>
     <release version="8~beta" type="development" date="2024-07-03">
       <description>
         <p>

meson.build

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('fractal',
         'rust',
-        version: '8.beta',
+        version: '8.rc',
         license: 'GPL-3.0-or-later',
         meson_version: '>= 1.1')
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ base_id = 'org.gnome.Fractal'
 application_id = base_id
 
 major_version = '8'
-pre_release_version = 'beta'
+pre_release_version = 'rc'
 
 version = major_version
 if pre_release_version != ''