Release v1.8.0

[gadomski]

Description:

Opening as a draft b/c I want to run the benchmark suite before merging+releasing, and that takes a hot minute.

PR Checklist:

• pre-commit hooks pass locally
• Tests pass (run scripts/test)
• Documentation has been updated to reflect changes, if applicable
• This PR maintains or improves overall codebase code coverage.
• Changes are added to the CHANGELOG. See the docs for information about adding to the changelog.
• (when approved) Close 1.8 milestone

[gadomski]

Benchmarks look ok on my box:

$ asv compare v1.7.3 main
All benchmarks:

       before           after         ratio
     [04960115]       [5b6622c9]
     <v1.7.3^0>       <main>    
          103±7μs         98.1±3μs     0.95  catalog.CatalogBench.time_catalog_from_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
          103±4μs          100±4μs     0.98  catalog.CatalogBench.time_catalog_from_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         271±20μs          257±7μs     0.95  catalog.CatalogBench.time_catalog_from_file [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
         260±10μs          247±7μs     0.95  catalog.CatalogBench.time_catalog_from_file [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         419±50μs          391±6μs     0.93  catalog.CatalogBench.time_catalog_save [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
         352±10μs         355±40μs     1.01  catalog.CatalogBench.time_catalog_save [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         177±10μs          173±5μs     0.98  catalog.CatalogBench.time_catalog_to_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
          176±9μs          175±5μs     1.00  catalog.CatalogBench.time_catalog_to_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
-        18.2±1ms       16.2±0.5ms     0.89  catalog.ReadCatalogBench.time_read_and_walk [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
       15.9±0.7ms       15.9±0.9ms     0.99  catalog.ReadCatalogBench.time_read_and_walk [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
            29.1M            29.4M     1.01  catalog.WalkCatalogBench.peakmem_walk [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
            29.7M            30.1M     1.01  catalog.WalkCatalogBench.peakmem_walk [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         245±20μs          226±6μs     0.93  catalog.WalkCatalogBench.time_walk [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
          239±8μs          226±6μs     0.94  catalog.WalkCatalogBench.time_walk [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         497±20ms          474±8ms     0.95  catalog.WriteCatalogBench.time_normalize_and_save [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
         439±10ms          422±7ms     0.96  catalog.WriteCatalogBench.time_normalize_and_save [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         216±20μs          201±9μs     0.93  collection.CollectionBench.time_collection_from_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
          207±7μs          200±6μs     0.97  collection.CollectionBench.time_collection_from_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         417±40μs         386±10μs     0.93  collection.CollectionBench.time_collection_from_file [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
         384±20μs         364±10μs     0.95  collection.CollectionBench.time_collection_from_file [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         533±70μs         497±10μs     0.93  collection.CollectionBench.time_collection_save [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
         380±10μs         390±40μs     1.02  collection.CollectionBench.time_collection_save [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         205±20μs          200±5μs     0.98  collection.CollectionBench.time_collection_to_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
          199±9μs          202±5μs     1.01  collection.CollectionBench.time_collection_to_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
       2.89±0.2μs      2.83±0.03μs     0.98  extensions.projection.ProjectionBench.time_add_projection_extension [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
      2.81±0.06μs      2.89±0.08μs     1.03  extensions.projection.ProjectionBench.time_add_projection_extension [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         98.4±4ms         98.0±5ms     1.00  import_pystac.ImportPySTACBench.timeraw_import_pystac [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
          107±2ms          111±8ms     1.05  import_pystac.ImportPySTACBench.timeraw_import_pystac [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         433±40μs         398±10μs     0.92  item.ItemBench.time_item_from_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
         414±20μs         399±10μs     0.96  item.ItemBench.time_item_from_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         781±80μs         726±40μs     0.93  item.ItemBench.time_item_from_file [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
         644±30μs         628±40μs     0.98  item.ItemBench.time_item_from_file [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         917±70μs         857±20μs     0.93  item.ItemBench.time_item_save [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
          246±9μs         242±20μs     0.98  item.ItemBench.time_item_save [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]
         22.8±2μs       21.8±0.7μs     0.96  item.ItemBench.time_item_to_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11]
         21.8±1μs       21.8±0.6μs     1.00  item.ItemBench.time_item_to_dict [gadomski/virtualenv-py3.11-orjson]

[jsignell]

LGTM