chore: update changelog for 4.0.0-rc.8 (#627)

Co-authored-by: MarkWolters <MarkWolters@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: github-actions[bot]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,8 +4,22 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. Dates are d
 
 Generated by [`auto-changelog`](https://github.com/CookPete/auto-changelog).
 
+#### [4.0.0-rc.8](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/compare/4.0.0-rc.7...4.0.0-rc.8)
+
+- release 4.0.0-rc.8 [`#626`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/626)
+- Refactor parallel writer [`#608`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/608)
+- Move buffer position in ByteBufferIndexWriter#writeFloats [`#607`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/607)
+- Ensure extractTrainingVectors return a list of at most MAX_PQ_TRAINING_SET_SIZE [`#610`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/610)
+- add config options for regression testing [`#609`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/609)
+- On-disk index cache for the Grid benchmark harness [`#612`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/612)
+- Improved dataset loading; fixes, safeties, diagnostics, and better feedback [`#613`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/613)
+- bump to next SNAPSHOT [`#605`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/605)
+
 #### [4.0.0-rc.7](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/compare/4.0.0-rc.6...4.0.0-rc.7)
 
+> 28 January 2026
+
+- chore: update changelog for 4.0.0-rc.7 [`#604`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/604)
 - release 4.0.0-rc.7 [`#603`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/603)
 - add protection against bad ordinal mappings [`#602`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/602)
 - adding memory and disk usage stats to bench tests [`#591`](https://github.com/datastax/jvector/pull/591)

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "jvector-release",
-  "version": "4.0.0-rc.7",
+  "version": "4.0.0-rc.8",
   "devDependencies": {
     "auto-changelog": "*"
   },