# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1674439755 18000
# Node ID 56223b5a01d45fa8eb94f0a8c9921a60f992a536
# Parent  faf5d5960732203952f69eb8b2fcdb4797f84d11# Parent  bcb4becbcf947826d53603cae57ddf993a92eb51
maint: Merge stable to default.

diff -r faf5d5960732 -r 56223b5a01d4 .hgtags
--- a/.hgtags	Sat Jan 21 14:02:11 2023 +0100
+++ b/.hgtags	Sun Jan 22 21:09:15 2023 -0500
@@ -134,3 +134,4 @@
 48fcfbaea2cdcfffaf1058c95832a33f70419a6f rc-7-1-90
 6c1e310b223029c3a21abe9629f4200560024c3a release-7-2-0
 2c037ce004502260228925e651dc077573366ba2 release-7-3-0
+74aa32d5fd08ec0398ac8261d4bf5dbd75e8f6a4 rc-8-0-90
diff -r faf5d5960732 -r 56223b5a01d4 CITATION
--- a/CITATION	Sat Jan 21 14:02:11 2023 +0100
+++ b/CITATION	Sun Jan 22 21:09:15 2023 -0500
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 To cite GNU Octave in publications use:
 
-  John W. Eaton, David Bateman, Søren Hauberg, Rik Wehbring (2022).
-  GNU Octave version 7.3.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for
+  John W. Eaton, David Bateman, Søren Hauberg, Rik Wehbring (2023).
+  GNU Octave version 8.1.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for
   numerical computations.
-  URL https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v7.3.0/
+  URL https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v8.1.0/
 
 A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is:
 
   @manual{,
-    title     = {{GNU Octave} version 7.3.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for numerical computations},
+    title     = {{GNU Octave} version 8.1.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for numerical computations},
     author    = {John W. Eaton and David Bateman and S{\o}ren Hauberg and Rik Wehbring},
-    year      = {2022},
-    url       = {https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v7.3.0/},
+    year      = {2023},
+    url       = {https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v8.1.0/},
   }
 
 We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating GNU Octave, please
diff -r faf5d5960732 -r 56223b5a01d4 configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	Sat Jan 21 14:02:11 2023 +0100
+++ b/configure.ac	Sun Jan 22 21:09:15 2023 -0500
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 OCTAVE_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1993-2023 The Octave Project Developers."
 
-OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2022-11-15"
+OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2023-01-22"
 
 ## The "API version" is used as a way of checking that interfaces in the
 ## liboctave and libinterp libraries haven't changed in a backwardly
diff -r faf5d5960732 -r 56223b5a01d4 etc/NEWS.8.md
--- a/etc/NEWS.8.md	Sat Jan 21 14:02:11 2023 +0100
+++ b/etc/NEWS.8.md	Sun Jan 22 21:09:15 2023 -0500
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Summary of important user-visible changes for version 8 (yyyy-mm-dd):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Summary of important user-visible changes for version 8 (2023-01-22):
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 ### General improvements
 
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
   `LDFLAGS` rather than `LFLAGS`.  `LFLAGS` was deprecated in Octave 6,
   and will be removed in a future version of Octave.
 
-Summary of bugs fixed for version 8.1.0 (YYYY-MM-DD):
+Summary of bugs fixed for version 8.1.0 (2023-01-22):
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
 - Improved input validation and/or output handling for `poly`, `pinv`, `patch`,
diff -r faf5d5960732 -r 56223b5a01d4 etc/icons/org.octave.Octave.appdata.xml
--- a/etc/icons/org.octave.Octave.appdata.xml	Sat Jan 21 14:02:11 2023 +0100
+++ b/etc/icons/org.octave.Octave.appdata.xml	Sun Jan 22 21:09:15 2023 -0500
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@
   <developer_name>John W. Eaton and others</developer_name>
   <content_rating type="oars-1.0"/>
   <releases>
+    <release date="2023-01-22" version="8.1.0"/>
     <release date="2022-11-02" version="7.3.0"/>
     <release date="2022-07-28" version="7.2.0"/>
     <release date="2022-04-06" version="7.1.0"/>