seL4 8.0.0 and CAmkES camkes-3.2.0 release

= seL4 8.0.0 =

Note: Meltdown and Spectre patches are not included in this release and will be 
included in a forthcoming release once
they have been verified.  Once they are merged they will still be accessible 
through the master branch of seL4 on github.

Release notes:
https://wiki.sel4.systems/seL4%208.0.0
CHANGES file in https://github.com/seL4/seL4/tree/8.0.0

= CAmkES camkes-3.2.0 =

Release notes:
https://wiki.sel4.systems/camkes-3.2.0
CHANGES file in https://github.com/seL4/camkes-tool/tree/camkes-3.2.0

= Miscellaneous updates =

== CMake build system ==

Replacing the current kbuild build system with a new CMake build system is 
still in progress.  The kernel only CMake build is now used by l4v.  Initial 
CMake versions for sel4test, sel4bench and our CAmkES projects are still being 
developed.  We intend to do a release that contains the Kbuild and CMake 
scripts working side by side, and will then start to remove the Kbuild scripts 
after that.

== Changes to manifests for our projects ==

Each project that we maintain now has a default.xml and master.xml manifest 
file.  master.xml is used to specify the branch tips of the upstream git 
repositories that a project uses.  default.xml now pins all of the repositories 
to revisions that last passed our regression tests.  For this current release 
and future releases a release tag will be created on each manifest repo 
specifying the revision of default.xml that uses the released revisions of all 
the repositories.  The seL4 and camkes-tool repos will still be tagged on each 
release, and all other repositories will have versioned branches created the 
same as before. We have only just finished testing this change and the various 
documentation will be updated over the coming days.

== Meltdown and Spectre ==

As mentioned above, Meltdown and Spectre related patches are not present in 
this release and will be merged into the kernel once verification is complete.  
There will likely be a blog post accompanying their release.

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