Version 1.8

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@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ See the bottom of this file for a list of things still to do.
 The work for releases 1.0, 1.2 and 1.2.1 was sponsored by the National
 Library of Australia, whose help we gratefully acknowledge.
 
-1.8  IN PROGRESS
-    - API changes: more information hiding, introduce getters
-    - make some contants read-only
-
+1.8  Fri Jul 22 18:02:41 CEST 2011
+    - API changes: removed direct access to internal state and introduced 
+    getters, removed usages of obsolete collections (Vector, Hashtable),
+    simplified method signatues (toXCQL), modified constants to be
+    read-only
+    - implemented faster XCQL serialization, using pure StringBuilder
 
 1.7  Tue Jul 27 17:35:25 BST 2010
        - Patch from Ralph LeVan to recognise