Prepare LHCb v55r8

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CMakeLists.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
 option(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS "Enable/Disable output of compile_commands.json" ON)
 
-project(LHCb VERSION 55.7
+project(LHCb VERSION 55.8
         LANGUAGES CXX)
 
 # Enable testing with CTest/CDash

ReleaseNotes/v55r8.md

+2024-05-08 LHCb v55r8
+===
+
+This version uses
+Detector [v1r32](../../../../Detector/-/tags/v1r32),
+Gaudi [v38r1](../../../../Gaudi/-/tags/v38r1) and
+LCG [105a](http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/105a/) with ROOT 6.30.04.
+
+This version is released on the `2024-patches` branch.
+Built relative to LHCb [v55r7](/../../tags/v55r7), with the following changes:
+
+### New features ~"new feature"
+
+- ~UT | New sourceID encoding and new UT ReadoutMap, !4389 (@hawu)
+
+
+### Fixes ~"bug fix" ~workaround
+
+- Fix SelReport decoder/encoder mismatch, !4545 (@thboettc) [Allen#534]
+- Consistently use LHCb::span instead of gsl::span, !4458 (@graven) [#351]
+- ~VP | Fix confused VP A and C side assignment, !4523 (@tmombach) [PUB-2019]
+
+
+### Enhancements ~enhancement
+
+- ~PID | Add 2024 ProbNN type enum, !4552 (@mveghel)
+- ~Persistency | Add get_flavourtags function and missing flavour tag selection unpacker, !4471 (@sesen)
+
+
+### Code cleanups and changes to tests ~modernisation ~cleanup ~testing
+
+- ~FT | Diminish verbosity of FT decoding, !4536 (@lohenry)
+- Disable GaudiAlg tuple.ex1 test with clang, !4535 (@jonrob)