This is a major release.
$ git shortlog -sn apache-arrow-0.7.1..apache-arrow-0.8.0 90 Wes McKinney 23 Phillip Cloud 21 Kouhei Sutou 13 Licht-T 12 Korn, Uwe 12 Philipp Moritz 12 Uwe L. Korn 10 Bryan Cutler 5 Li Jin 5 Robert Nishihara 4 Paul Taylor 4 siddharth 3 Max Risuhin 3 Stephanie 2 Rene Sugar 2 Heimir Sverrisson 2 Brian Hulette 2 Yuliya Feldman 2 dhirschf 2 Matthias Vallentin 1 vkorukanti 1 Andrew Andrade 1 Benjamin Goldberg 1 Ivan Sadikov 1 John Jenkins 1 Joris Van den Bossche 1 Lewis John McGibbney 1 Lu Qi 1 Manuel 1 Nick White 1 Ofek Lev 1 Shixiong Zhu 1 Siddharth Teotia 1 Stephen G 1 Victor Uriarte 1 Wataru Shimizu 1 ksdevlife 1 lmeyerov 1 rvernica 1 Amir Malekpour
The following Apache committers committed contributed patches to the repository.
$ git shortlog -csn apache-arrow-0.7.0..apache-arrow-0.8.0 236 Wes McKinney 35 Uwe L. Korn 10 Philipp Moritz 5 Kouhei Sutou 1 Steven Phillips