From bc15439e34a267c53fcb75b4e3b65abb9c529dbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rosen Matev <rosen.matev@cern.ch>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 17:41:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare LHCb v55r8

[ci skip]
---
 CMakeLists.txt        |  2 +-
 ReleaseNotes/v55r8.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 ReleaseNotes/v55r8.md

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b346f7a547e..aeaf2305a41 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/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
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/v55r8.md b/ReleaseNotes/v55r8.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ddc58a32ac0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ReleaseNotes/v55r8.md
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+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)
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