version update.

README.rst

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Requirements
 Download
 ........
 
-The latest release is tagged **v0.7.0** and is available as a source package
+The latest release is tagged **v0.8.0** and is available as a source package
 at `<https://github.com/mselig/nifty/tags>`_. The current version can be
 obtained by cloning the repository::
 

nifty_core.py

@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ class _about(object): ## nifty support class for global settings
 
         """
         ## version
-        self._version = "0.7.9"
+        self._version = "0.8.0"
 
         ## switches and notifications
         self._errors = notification(default=True,ccode=notification._code)

setup.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from distutils.core import setup
 import os
 
 setup(name="nifty",
-      version="0.7.0",
+      version="0.8.0",
       description="Numerical Information Field Theory",
       author="Marco Selig",
       author_email="mselig@mpa-garching.mpg.de",