8.0.0 - 2026-05-13

Summary

In this major release, several modifications were made to the PTB's workflow templates:

For automatically resolving vulnerabilities, the dependency-update.yml workflow was
added. For more details, see the Update Dependencies section.
The periodic run which was previously executed in the ci.yml has been moved to its
own periodic-validation.yml and will run weekly. This also has been modified to
run the slow-checks.yml so that more complete linting and coverage information is
sent to Sonar.
With the addition of periodic-validation.yml, the pr-merge.yml was reduced so that
it only executes gh-pages.yml.
The unit tests job has been moved from checks.yml to its own fast-tests.yml file.
Workflow extensions were added to fast-tests and merge-gate. This allows users to
add custom fast-tests-extension.yml and merge-gate-extension.yml files. For more
details, check out the Workflow Extensions section.
slow-checks.yml is only maintained by the project (not the PTB). See the Not Maintained by the PTB section.

#829: Extended removing a job from a workflow to also remove it from the needs of another job
#825: Created two workflows by splitting up previous ones:
- Moved the periodic jobs in ci.yml to its own periodic-validation.yml
- Moved the unit tests job in checks.yml to its own fast-tests.yml
#730: Added workflow extensions to fast-tests and merge-gate
#756: Added dependency-update.yml to automate resolving vulnerabilities with a generated pull request
#792: Improved dependency-update.yml documentation
#831: Switched slow-checks.yml to be provided by the project and not maintained by the PTB and improved output of pydantic validation of .workflow-patcher.yml

#563: Fixed merge-gate to prevent auto-merges from happening when integration tests failed

This release fixes vulnerabilities by updating dependencies:

Dependency	Vulnerability	Affected	Fixed in
urllib3	CVE-2026-44431	2.6.3	2.7.0
urllib3	CVE-2026-44432	2.6.3	2.7.0