chore(main): release 8.0.0

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8.0.0 (2026-02-14)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Redesign configuration layerfor full typing and OOP friendliness (#1661)
• add deprecated-return-keyword rule fix and deprecate ReplaceReturns formatter (#1643)
• deprecate deprecated-statement rule and split into deprecated-return-setting (#1639)
• Drop support for Python 3.9 and Robot Framework 4.* (#1619)
• Add fixable rules (#1617)w
• Refactor source files handling with common SourceFile class (#1615)

Features

• Add case_normalization parameter to enforce case by RenameKeywords (#1667) (49a0b02)
• Add complete typing annotations (#1657) (5e97a85)
• add deprecated-return-keyword rule fix and deprecate ReplaceReturns formatter (#1643) (48e747c)
• Add different kind of TextEdit for convenience (#1641) (95bd99f)
• Add fix to deprecate-return-setting rule (#1642) (113c011)
• Add fixable rules (#1617)w (128c849)
• Add full typing safety with mypy checks (#1662) (d27e59f)
• add performance tests to benchmark Robocop on release (#1611) (eea1c56)
• Add set-keyword-with-type rule (#1655) (eced886)
• allow to check and report issue from the rule class (#1644) (8aff795)
• Deprecate AddMissingEnd formatter (#1647) (b97368c)
• deprecate deprecated-statement rule and split into deprecated-return-setting (#1639) (2f9010a)
• do not print diagnostic messages in diff mode, only file changes (#1625) (41f4ff0)
• Drop support for Python 3.9 and Robot Framework 4.* (#1619) (2e73142)
• emit warning when select/extend-select/ignore use non existing rule (#1670) (5e3320f)
• Filter fixable rules with --fixable and --unfixable (#1620) (ed91630)
• Fix rule where it is being report (#1630) (443d59b)
• Ignore quoted parts when renaming or linting keyword name (#1671) (399e0c5)
• Improve performance of inconsistent-variable-name and possible-overwriting rules (#1646) (581ec82)
• Improve performance of unused-variable and unused-argument rules (#1645) (4bb29c4)
• list rules can now return result programatically (#1629) (457d135)
• Make MCP aware of local config (#1673) (55e18b6)
• Redesign configuration layerfor full typing and OOP friendliness (#1661) (42045dc)
• refactor source file handling (#1613) (0e7f04e)
• Replace typer-slim with typer (#1685) (b83400f)
• Skip documentation by default in NormalizeSeparators (#1672) (5b1ae35)
• split deprecated-statement to deprecated-force-tags and add fix for it (#1622) (0316605)
• split deprecated-statement to deprecated-loop-keyword rule (#1637) (9342c67)
• split deprecated-statement to deprecated-return-keyword (#1638) (a0fcd14)
• split deprecated-statement to deprecated-run-keyword-if rule (#1632) (a974abd)
• Update RenameVariables formatter so it treats numbers as part of word and does not split on it (#1663) (eddfd96)
• Variable type conversion - support duplicate-argument rule (#1654) (af8d35a)
• Variable type conversion - support duplicated-assigned-var-name rule (#1650) (3f304e5)
• Variable type conversion - support inconsistent-variable-name rule (#1651) (9a0f525)
• Variable type conversion - support non-local-variables-should-be-uppercase (#1652) (97f4725)
• Variable type conversion - support possible-variable-overwriting' rule (#1653) (322cd95)

Bug Fixes

• add explicit typing-extensions dependency (#1680) (b406f25)
• Fix #1174 expression-can-be-simplified raised for == 0 (#1649) (d0f4985)
• Fix #1422 - ReplaceWithVAR formatter replacing variables with item access (#1648) (a9c3377)
• Fix caching the issues with fixes (#1623) (256874b)
• Fix extend-select matching only on rule id, not on rule name (#1669) (403ff7d)
• Fix format --extend-select not enabling formatters (#1668) (3c76c50)
• Fix not all issue format parameters supported by extended output (#1624) (727c38d)
• Fix too-long-variable-name throwing exception on Set X Variable without arguments (#1675) (3a55663)
• multiple paths passed to robocop check/format command resolving to the same config (#1614) (bdcfd48)

Documentation

• Fix rst-style urls in the documentation (#1640) (eb1dcab)

Refactoring

• Refactor source files handling with common SourceFile class (#1615) (25d30da)

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[mikeleppane]

Suggestion: I recently built a Python-based tool for automated release management for Python applications, inspired by release-plz: https://mikeleppane.github.io/releasio/. Please take a look at it, and if you find it useful, feel free to use it. :)

[bhirsz]

Suggestion: I recently built a Python-based tool for automated release management for Python applications, inspired by release-plz: https://mikeleppane.github.io/releasio/. Please take a look at it, and if you find it useful, feel free to use it. :)

I will take a look. I am actually 'fighting' a bit with release please recently so it may be helpfull. There are some minor quirks - for example the Github Action used does not trigger some of the Github event, so our jobs like performance tests did not trigger. Also our publisj job does not trigger after creating release. For that reason I need to redesign our workflows a bit, so it may be worth looking into to have more control over this :)

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Performance Report

Version	Project traversal	Linting (print+cache)	Linting (print+no cache)	Linting (no print+cache)	Linting (no print+no cache)	Linting (large file with print)	Linting (large file without print)	Formatting
local	0.378s (-3.29%)	2.903s (11.44%)	4.237s (-2.84%)	0.532s (-1.51%)	2.495s (-7.4%)	15.213s (-32.25%)	5.113s (-23.02%)	0.467s (-5.24%)
7.2.0	0.390s (2.22%)	2.605s (-40.71%)	4.361s (-28.69%)	0.540s (0.04%)	2.695s (-1.73%)	22.455s (-14.4%)	6.642s (-1.46%)	0.493s (1.86%)
7.1.0	0.382s (-1.95%)	4.394s	6.116s (22.02%)	0.540s	2.742s (16.8%)	26.231s (15.02%)	6.741s (2.57%)	0.484s (0.65%)
7.0.0	0.390s (-92.38%)	-	5.012s	-	2.348s	22.806s	6.571s	0.481s
6.9.0	5.110s (1212.78%)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6.13.0	0.389s	-	4.992s	-	2.311s	22.809s	6.433s	0.486s