RELEASE_NOTES.md in btcruby-1.7 vs RELEASE_NOTES.md in btcruby-1.8

@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 
 BTCRuby Release Notes
 =====================
 
+1.8 (May 14, 2018)
+-------------------------
+
+* Use OpenSSL 1.0 over OpenSSL 1.1 for compatiblity with Ruby 2.3.
+* Added support for debugging with `pry-byebug`.
+
 1.7 (September 28, 2017)
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-* Various bugfixes
+* Various bug fixes
 * WIP on API for the versioned scripts
 
 1.6 (January 15, 2015)
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