Release v1.8.0 · deshaw/versioned-hdf5

What's Changed

Force the master branch to be targeted when building docs to publish by @peytondmurray in #341
Add version dunder back in using importlib.metadata by @peytondmurray in #344
Test with numpy 1.24 version now that version 2.* is released by @ArvidJB in #347
Fix chunk reuse verification for string dtype arrays by @peytondmurray in #348
Improve read/writing performance for InMemoryDataset (PyInf#12655) by @ArvidJB in #345
Move slicetools implementation to cython (PyInf#12655) by @ArvidJB in #346
Fix H5S_sel_type enum declaration by @ArvidJB in #349
Add additional non-python build dependencies for publish_docs CI job by @peytondmurray in #351
Clean up pytest config; make test workflow print hdf5 config by @peytondmurray in #353
Make InMemoryGroup close child instances if self is closed by @peytondmurray in #354
Explicitly add all hdf5 types to slicetools to fix local tests by @peytondmurray in #355
Fix nondefault compression handling by @peytondmurray in #358
Make the tests workflow update before installing native deps by @peytondmurray in #360
Improve Hashtable initialization by @ArvidJB in #359
Label hypothesis tests as slow by @crusaderky in #362
Nitpicks in design doc by @crusaderky in #361
Release prep v1.8.0 by @peytondmurray in #363

Full Changelog: 1.7.0...v1.8.0