common: 1.8-rc1 release

ChangeLog

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+Fri Jan 17 2020 Marcin Ślusarz <marcin.slusarz@intel.com>
+
+    * Version 1.8-rc1
+
+    This release:
+    - Introduces new API in libpmemobj for user-assisted defragmentation
+      (see pmemobj_defrag man page for details).
+    - Introduces experimental support for PPC64LE architecture.
+    - Introduces new flag in libpmemobj for opting-out of transaction aborts
+      on failure (POBJ_TX_NO_ABORT), along with new variants of existing APIs
+      that didn't accept flags (pmemobj_tx_xfree, pmemobj_tx_xpublish,
+      pmemobj_tx_xlock, pmemobj_tx_xlog_append_buffer, pmemobj_tx_xstrdup,
+      pmemobj_tx_xwcsdup).
+    - Moves out libvmem and libvmmalloc to the new repository
+      (https://github.com/pmem/vmem).
+
+    Other changes:
+    - obj: introduce new statistics useful for defrag
+    - obj: introduce transient/persistent statistics enabling
+    - obj: introduce pmemobj_tx_(set/get)_user_data funcs
+    - obj: introduce pmemobj_(set/get)_user_data funcs
+    - obj: disable workaround for offsetof() since VS 15.5 in public header
+    - common: drop support for libndctl < 63 on Linux
+    - pool: rename -N --no-exec to -d --dry-run
+
+    Notable bug fixes:
+    - obj: fix potential NULL-dereference in ulog_store
+    - obj: fix unintended recursive locking during palloc
+    - obj: fix lock release order in palloc publish
+    - obj: fix transient redo log of more than 64 entries
+    - obj: fix capacity ulog calculation
+    - obj: fix check of unaligned capacity size
+    - rpmem: add a missing case for GPSPM + FLUSH_STRICT
+    - pmem: fix pmemcheck support on platforms with eADR
+    - pool: fix possible memory leak
+    - rpmem: fix possible memory leak in rpmemd_config_read
+    - rpmem: fix possible memory leak in rpmemd_log_init
+    - rpmem: fix possible use-after-free
+
 Mon Sep 30 2019 Marcin Ślusarz <marcin.slusarz@intel.com>
 
 	* Version 1.7

VERSION

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+1.8-rc1