PARQUET-292: Update CHANGES.md for 1.8.0.
Also, cleaning up PRs: closes #206, closes #47, closes #72, closes #87,
closes #96, closes #100, closes #107, and closes #112.
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# Parquet #
+### Version 1.8.0 ###
+
+#### Bug
+
+* [PARQUET-151](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-151) - Null Pointer exception in parquet.hadoop.ParquetFileWriter.mergeFooters
+* [PARQUET-152](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-152) - Encoding issue with fixed length byte arrays
+* [PARQUET-164](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-164) - Warn when parquet memory manager kicks in
+* [PARQUET-199](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-199) - Add a callback when the MemoryManager adjusts row group size
+* [PARQUET-201](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-201) - Column with OriginalType INT_8 failed at filtering
+* [PARQUET-227](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-227) - Parquet thrift can write unions that have 0 or more than 1 set value
+* [PARQUET-246](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-246) - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException with Parquet write version v2
+* [PARQUET-251](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-251) - Binary column statistics error when reuse byte[] among rows
+* [PARQUET-252](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-252) - parquet scrooge support should support nested container type
+* [PARQUET-254](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-254) - Wrong exception message for unsupported INT96 type
+* [PARQUET-269](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-269) - Restore scrooge-maven-plugin to 3.17.0 or greater
+* [PARQUET-284](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-284) - Should use ConcurrentHashMap instead of HashMap in ParquetMetadataConverter
+* [PARQUET-285](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-285) - Implement nested types write rules in parquet-avro
+* [PARQUET-287](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-287) - Projecting unions in thrift causes TExceptions in deserializatoin
+* [PARQUET-296](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-296) - Set master branch version back to 1.8.0-SNAPSHOT
+* [PARQUET-297](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-297) - created_by in file meta data doesn't contain parquet library version
+* [PARQUET-314](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-314) - Fix broken equals implementation(s)
+* [PARQUET-316](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-316) - Run.sh is broken in parquet-benchmarks
+* [PARQUET-317](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-317) - writeMetaDataFile crashes when a relative root Path is used
+* [PARQUET-320](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-320) - Restore semver checks
+* [PARQUET-324](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-324) - row count incorrect if data file has more than 2^31 rows
+* [PARQUET-325](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-325) - Do not target row group sizes if padding is set to 0
+* [PARQUET-329](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-329) - ThriftReadSupport#THRIFT_COLUMN_FILTER_KEY was removed (incompatible change)
+
+#### Improvement
+
+* [PARQUET-175](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-175) - Allow setting of a custom protobuf class when reading parquet file using parquet-protobuf.
+* [PARQUET-223](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-223) - Add Map and List builiders
+* [PARQUET-245](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-245) - Travis CI runs tests even if build fails
+* [PARQUET-248](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-248) - Simplify ParquetWriters's constructors
+* [PARQUET-253](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-253) - AvroSchemaConverter has confusing Javadoc
+* [PARQUET-259](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-259) - Support Travis CI in parquet-cpp
+* [PARQUET-264](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-264) - Update README docs for graduation
+* [PARQUET-266](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-266) - Add support for lists of primitives to Pig schema converter
+* [PARQUET-272](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-272) - Updates docs decscription to match data model
+* [PARQUET-274](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-274) - Updates URLs to link against the apache user instead of Parquet on github
+* [PARQUET-276](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-276) - Updates CONTRIBUTING file with new repo info
+* [PARQUET-286](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-286) - Avro object model should use Utf8
+* [PARQUET-288](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-288) - Add dictionary support to Avro converters
+* [PARQUET-289](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-289) - Allow object models to extend the ParquetReader builders
+* [PARQUET-290](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-290) - Add Avro data model to the reader builder
+* [PARQUET-306](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-306) - Improve alignment between row groups and HDFS blocks
+* [PARQUET-308](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-308) - Add accessor to ParquetWriter to get current data size
+* [PARQUET-309](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-309) - Remove unnecessary compile dependency on parquet-generator
+* [PARQUET-321](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-321) - Set the HDFS padding default to 8MB
+* [PARQUET-327](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-327) - Show statistics in the dump output
+
+#### New Feature
+
+* [PARQUET-229](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-229) - Make an alternate, stricter thrift column projection API
+* [PARQUET-243](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-243) - Add avro-reflect support
+
+#### Task
+
+* [PARQUET-262](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-262) - When 1.7.0 is released, restore semver plugin config
+* [PARQUET-292](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-292) - Release Parquet 1.8.0
+
### Version 1.7.0 ###
* [PARQUET-23](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-23) - Rename to org.apache.
