From 44de99bf522cc495a3faddf3294ba02323ec1ab9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francesc Alted <francesc@blosc.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:13:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Getting ready for release 2.2.8

---
 .github/workflows/cibuildwheels.yml | 3 +--
 ANNOUNCE.rst                        | 7 +++----
 RELEASE_NOTES.md                    | 6 +++++-
 VERSION                             | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/cibuildwheels.yml b/.github/workflows/cibuildwheels.yml
index ab461a66..cb35ca57 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cibuildwheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cibuildwheels.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ on:
       - main
 
 env:
-  #CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD: pip install -r requirements-build.txt
   CIBW_BUILD_VERBOSITY: 1
   CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: pytest psutil
   CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: python -m pytest -m "not heavy" {project}/tests
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
 
   build_wheels:
     # Only build wheels when tagging (typically a release)
-    # if: startsWith(github.event.ref, 'refs/tags')
+    if: startsWith(github.event.ref, 'refs/tags')
     name: Build wheels on ${{ matrix.os }} for ${{ matrix.arch }} - ${{ matrix.p_ver }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     permissions:
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE.rst b/ANNOUNCE.rst
index 9442a71d..ebb6c2b6 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE.rst
+++ b/ANNOUNCE.rst
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-Announcing Python-Blosc2 2.2.7
+Announcing Python-Blosc2 2.2.8
 ==============================
 
-This is a maintenance release, where we have upgraded to latest C-Blosc2 2.10.3.
-This provides the ability to use the blosc2_openhtj2k dynamic plugin
-(see https://github.com/Blosc/blosc2_openhtj2k for more info on this).
+This is a maintenance release, where we are providing binary wheels
+for Python 3.12 (yay!).  We have also upgraded to latest C-Blosc2 2.10.4.
 
 For more info, you can have a look at the release notes in:
 
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index a2e4e16b..e2352d98 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 ## Changes from 2.2.7 to 2.2.8
 
-* XXX version-specific blurb XXX
+* Binary wheels for forthcoming Python 3.12 are available!
 
+* Different improvements suggested by refurb and pyupgrade.
+  Thanks to Dimitri Papadopoulos.
+
+* Updated to latest C-Blosc2 2.10.4.
 
 ## Changes from 2.2.6 to 2.2.7
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index abcf2e88..23a63f52 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.2.8.dev0
+2.2.8